Montgomery Town Library
Book to Film Series, 2011-2012 ****************************************************************
Each discussion/film is the first Wednesday of the month, except February (2nd Wednesday).
Wednesday, November 2nd at 6:00 pm
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A spirited, idealistic, and intelligent young orphaned girl survives many hardships to mature into an independent, compassionate, and confident woman, musing along the way upon the complexities of the human condition and the difficulties inherent in trying to do right by one’s faith, one’s self, and one’s duty to others.
Wednesday, December 7th at 6:00 pm
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Bengali couple immigrate to the United States and have a son, Gogol, who is named after his father’s favorite author (a Russian writer). When Gogol hits his teen and young adult years, he struggles with his odd birth name, his heritage, and his parents’ expectations, and is beset by “conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs” in this journey of assimilation and personal identity.
Wednesday, January 4th at 6:00 pm
True Grit by Charles Portis
Mattie Ross, a woman in her later years, tells the story of her quest as a 14-year-old to avenge her father’s death at the hands of a drifter he had hired. Grudgingly assisted by deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Coburn and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, spunky Mattie heads into the Old West wilderness to track down the killer.
Wednesday, February 8th at 6:00 pm
Bliss by Zülfü Livaneli
Village custom dictates that 15-year-old Meryem hang herself after she is raped. When she refuses, she is sent out of town with her cousin Cemal, who has been instructed to kill her. He cannot, and so the two are on the run, with the village sheikh’s henchmen in close pursuit. Meryem and Cemal meet a wealthy professor and join him as crew on his sailboat. The new and old, the secular and religious, West and East, meet in this book set in modern day Turkey. (film in Turkish w/subtitles)
Wednesday, March 7th at 6:00 pm
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A comic parody. Orphaned and destitute at age 20—and not wishing to work—Flora Poste moves in with her late mother’s nutty relatives, the Starkadders, who live on the mismanaged and isolated Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex. Flora’s optimistic common sense wreaks some order upon chaos.
Wednesday, April 4th at 6:00 pm
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Newlyweds David Beck and his wife Elizabeth are swimming at night, celebrating the anniversary of their childhood first kiss, when she screams and disappears. A serial killer goes to prison for her murder. Eight years later, David receives a mysterious email that includes a phrase known only to him and Elizabeth. Two more bodies are discovered, and the evidence implicates David. (film in French)
Optional Potluck starts at 5:15. Call Tracey at the library for more info. 326-3113.
Books will be available for loan at the library. Free.
I’m looking forward to reading all of these books. I can, hopefully, get to some of the screenings especially the pot lucks!!!
Hope you can make it, too!