Greene-Thursday Film Series ( adult )
“UNMISTAKEN CHILD” Directed and written by Nati Baratz (2008) NOTE: Rescheduled for Thursday, January 28 due to weather.
Date: January 28, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation. Stunningly shot, UNMISTAKEN CHILD is a beguiling, surprising, touching, even humorous experience. more info
Greene-Thursday Film Series ( adult )
“PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE” Directed and written by Steven Sebring (2008)
Date: February 18, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, this film is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. Following Smith's personal reflections over a decade, the film explores her many art forms and the friends and poets who inspired her. This is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series P.O.V.
Greene-Thursday Film Series ( adult )
FRESH: NEW THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE ARE EATING directed by ana Sofia joanes
Date: March 18, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Explores the environmental & ethical issues surrounding sustainable vs. industrial farming while celebrating the innovative changes now taking place. Joining us for the film is Mike Clark, owner of Planet Earth Diversified, in Greene County.
Greene-Thursday Film Series ( adult )
TREELESS MOUNTAIN directed and written by So Yong Kim (2008)
Date: April 15, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after one another when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father. Taken to live on their grandparents' farm, it is here that they comes to learn the importance of family bonds in this beautiful, meditative, and thought-provoking film. Kim was featured as one of the "25 Filmmakers to Watch" in Filmmaker Magazine. more info
Greene-Thursday Film Series ( adult )
“FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER” directed by Irena Salina.
Date: May 20, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
How did a handful of corporations steal our water? Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. The award winning documentary FLOW confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause. Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround. more info
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE LAST CHINESE CHEF by Nicole Mones
Date: April 03, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband's premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband's estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and to profile rising chef Sam Liang, who introduces her to the Chinese concept of food, while drawing her into his extended family and helping her come to terms with her life.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE WORLD IS FLAT by Thomas L. Friedman
Date: May 01, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
An account of the great changes taking place in the modern world as a result of swift advances in technology and communications, including an explosion of wealth in India and China.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdich
Date: June 05, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer
Date: July 03, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers
Date: August 07, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A respected magazine editor/founder and onetime spokesman for Generation X offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly tradition-shattering memoir that discusses the deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A FINE BALANCE by Rohinton Mistry
Date: September 04, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people - a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence - find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A MORE PERFECT CONSTITUTION: 23 proposals to revitalize our Constitution and make America a fairer country by Larry J. Sabato
Date: October 02, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Calls for revisions to the Constitution to restore equity for ordinary citizens and offers proposals to reinvigorate the document to incorporate changes to the structure of Congress, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and a mandatory national service. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
EAT, PRAY, LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA by Elizabeth Gilbert
Date: November 06, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A JUDGEMENT IN STONE by Ruth Rendell
Date: December 04, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
When a housekeeper carries out a modern "Valentine's Day Massacre" on the family that employs her, Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch investigates to uncover evidence of a personal tragedy that precipitated the crime.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak
Date: January 08, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
Picking books for the next 6 months.
Date: February 05, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Everyone can come for this fun meeting. Please bring no more than two book suggestions per person.
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
(THE BIG READ)
Date: March 05, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion led by Hilary Holladay, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, and the author of three books on African American literature. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
WASHINGTON SQUARE by Henry James
Date: April 02, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Story of a stubborn father, a plain heiress and the poor, handsome suitor who may or may not love her only for her wealth.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
Date: May 07, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN by Rory Stewart
Date: June 04, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Traces the author's 2002 journey by foot across Afghanistan, during which he survived the harsh elements through the kindness of tribal elders, teen Soldiers, Taliban commanders, and foreign-aid workers whose stories he collected along his way. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro
Date: July 02, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sent to live in England after the disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks returns to Shanghai, the city of his birth, more than twenty years later to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE GATHERING by Anne Enright
Date: August 06, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
As nine members of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, his sister Veronica remembers the secret he shared with her about what happened in their grandmother's house thirty years ago, a betrayal that spans three generations. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
Choose the titles we'll read for the next 6 months.
Date: October 01, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Come prepared to suggest one or two book possibilities for the group to consider. Ideally the person proposing a title will have firsthand experience of it by already having read it. Fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, even the occasional young adult novel may be proposed. Members will vote on individual suggestions to determine the next 6 months reading list. Come on out, this is a fun night to hear about many new books, and have a say in what the group reads.
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier
Date: November 05, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
SKY BURIAL: AN EPIC LOVE STORY OF TIBET by Xinran
Date: December 03, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In 1958, notified that her husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey in a novel based on a true story. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot
Date: January 07, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Displays George Eliot's imaginative understanding and intelligent perception of Victorian provincial life through her subtle portrayal of middle class characters. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
REMEMBERING THE BONES by Frances Itani
Date: February 04, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Georgie Witley accidently drives her car off the road on her way to the Ottawa airport, and as she lies stranded and injured, she reflects on the people and events in her life while she struggles to survive. Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines
THE BIG READ
Date: March 04, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The story of two African American men struggling to attain manhood in a prejudiced society, the tale is set in Bayonne, La. in the late 1940s. Author Keith Clark of George Mason Univ will speak on The Life and Art of Ernest J. Gaines: Reimagining Black Southern Manhood Check the Catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR by Paul Theroux
Date: April 01, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The author of "The Great Railway Bazaar" revisits the past as he journeys through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia on an adventure that reveals the dramatic changes that have occurred since the writing of the original travelogue.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen
Date: May 06, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In describing her experiences managing a coffee plantation in Kenya, the author provides insight into the nature of African life.
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Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
Choosing Books
Date: June 03, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The entire June meeting will be choosing books to read for the next 6 to 8 months. Everyone should bring no more than 2 book choices for consideration to this meeting.
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
Date: July 01, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A collection of short fiction explores the complexities of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by a practical joke and a lifelong philanderer who finds the tables turned. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Geraldine Brooks
Date: August 05, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EAST AFRICA by Nicholas Drayson
Date: September 02, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Working up the nerve to invite Rose Mbikwa to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball, Mr. Malik, a reserved, honorable widower, is suddenly confronted by the return of his school nemesis, the flashy Harry Kahn, who also sets his sights on Rose. Check the catalog
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
Date: October 07, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. Check the catalog
Future Readings:
- Nov 4: BREAKFAST WITH BUDDHA by Roland Merullo
- Dec 2: THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth
- Jan 6: PURPLE HIBISCUS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Greene-Thursday Night Book Discussion Group ( adult )
THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski
Date: September 03, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A Hamlet-style tale that also celebrates the ancient alliance between humans and dogs follow the coming-of-age of speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death. Check the Catalog