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 Granby Public Library The Un-Book-Club
Most book clubs involve reading and talking about a selected title. The un-book-club is a little different! The library staff will select a book that has received good reviews and has been the topic for book discussions in other libraries.
The loan period will be 14 days with one renewal allowed.
Share your opinion of these (and any other) books by logging onto the library catalog at home. Look for the Reader Review box, click on it, follow directions, and become a local book reviewer. If you'd like to read some reviews search these titles and click on Reader Reviews on the left side of the screen: Patrimony: A True Story, Sight For Sore Eyes, Animals Make Us Human, Tales of Beedle the Bard. These are just some of the reviews written by local readers. Add your thoughts about the books you have read!
The June unbook title is: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. Described as a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope - a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it!
Borrow a copy, read it, and share your thoughts online or on one of the reader review cards tucked in the book.
July and August unbook titles : Books written by Elinor Lipman.
 Elinor Lipman was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1950. She majored in "Publications" at Simmons college and wrote press releases for Boston's public television station, WGBH. She married Robert Austin, a college blind date, in 1975, and Benjamin Lipman Austin was born in 1982. At 28, she enrolled in an adult education creative writing course at Brandeis University, and began writing fiction on her office IBM Correcting
Selectric typewriter. Her first and second published stories appeared in Yankee Magazine in 1981 and '82. Into Love and Out Again was her first book, which gave her the courage to write the novel Then She Found Me, which was adapted for the screen 18 years later. She has received several awards for her writing and has taught writing at Simmons, Smith, and Hampshire colleges, all in Massachusetts. Her latest book, The Family Man, was published in 2009.
Borrow some copies, read them, and share your thoughts online or on one of the reader review cards tucked in the books.
For those of you who would like to catch up on earlier Un-Book Club titles, our previous selections have been: Still Alice, Serendipity, 3 titles by Malcolm Gladwell, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Teacher Man, Plum Wine, The Great Gatsby, Shadows in my house of sunshine, My Life in France, Loving Frank, and The friendship test. Copies of all past selections are available to borrow at the library. The titles may also be found in the online catalog by searching Unbook Club.
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