Great Book discussions will take place each month on the first Tuesday and the following Thursday. We will be reading the book, The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler, straight through discussing one selection each month, and pulling questions from the ones that follow it in the text. Feel free to read ahead to the next months' stories, they look great and we look forward to some thought-provoking and stimulating discussions!
May's Great Books Discussion will be
Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling(p. 62).
Tuesday, May
6th at 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 8th at noon
The focus question is:
Is Mary more in touch with her emotions at the end of the story than she is at the beginning?
List of past topics
April
Smokers - Tobias Wolff - p. 62
Is the narrator driven more by envy or by shame?
March
In what ways are Mrs. Slade's and Mrs. Ansley's impressions of each other distorted as each visualizes the other "through the wrong end of her little telescope"? (50) Are both women subject to equal amounts of distortion?
February
Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor - p. 17-40
What does Hulga mean when she says to her mother, "Do you ever look inside and see what you are not?"
January
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner - p. 3-13
Why does Emily keep Homer's corpse?
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 The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler:
Pride, Anger, Greed, Lust, Envy, Sloth, and Gluttony. Experience hidden acts of sinful thought and behavior through fiction stories.
Great Book discussion groups are open-ended gatherings where people of all backgrounds come to talk about literature and the great ideas and issues that literature addresses. Groups read and discuss a short literary selection each month. Please join in at anytime. For more information call the library at 270-781-4882 x203
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