PPLS Book Discussion Groups

Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group
Brown Bag Book Club
What Are You Reading Now? Book Club
Chapter-a-Day Online Book Clubs

Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group (click here for printable 2009 schedule)

The Second Tuesday Club meets at Schimelpfenig Library, 5024 Custer Rd, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information call 972.208.8000, Cathe Spencer, librarian coordinator.

2009 Schedule

January 13
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx

February 10
Franklin and Lucy
Joseph Persico

March 10
90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper

April 14
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks

May 12
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos

June 9
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

July 14
The Irregulars
Jennet Conant

August 11
The Heretic’s Daughter
Kathleen Kent

September 8
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson

October 13
No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin

November 10
Life Is So Good
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

For past selections of the Second Tuesday Discussion Group, click here.

Brown Bag Book Club
(click here for printable 2009 schedule)

The Brown Bag Book Club meets at Parr Library, 6200 Windhaven Parkway, from 12noon to 1:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information, call or email Peter Jackson, the librarian coordinator, at 972.769.4300, peterj@plano.gov.

Fall 2009 Schedule

January 22
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

February 26
A Charmed Life: Growing up in Macbeth’s Castle
Liza Campbell

March 26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

April 23
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish

May 28
The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham

June 25
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Michael Gates Gill

For past selections of the Brown Bag Book Club click here.

What Are you Reading Now Book Club
2009
First Monday of the Month
Haggard Library
2501 Coit Road
1 – 2:30 pm

(click here for printable 2009 schedule)

January 5
February 2
March 2
April 6
May 4
June 1
July 6
August 3
No September meeting
October 5
November 2
December 7

Recent Recommendations

America America
Ethan Canin

Breaking Blue
Timothy Egan

The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway

Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

The Condition
Jennifer Haigh

The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory

The Gathering
Anne Enright

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Host
Stephenie Meyer

Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Nando Parrado

Netherland
Joseph O’Neill

Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson

Saving Cascadia
John J.Nance

The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Writing Class
Jincy Willett

PPLS Online Book Clubs

PPLS offers 11 online Book Clubs

PPLS Online Book Clubs email you a portion of a book every weekday morning. We are pleased to offer the Fiction, Pre-Publication, Nonfiction, Teen, Business, Good News, Romance, Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror and Audio Book Clubs. For more information about PPLS Online Book Clubs click here.