June's Book

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
by Mary J. McLeod

June 18th (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Janice F.'s

Summary:
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the first enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends.

Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland. The remarkable debut of an author now in her eighties, Call the Nurse is a treasure of sweet nostalgia.

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October's Book

Three Men in a Boat
(To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome

Oct. 17th (3rd Thurs.)
8pm at Stacy's

Summary:
It would be unfair to say that any of the three men were hypochondriacs: it was simply that they suffered from a constant malaise, consisting of every symptom but housemaid's knee. The only cure for it was a revitalizing river trip in an open boat.

Bearing frying pans, elusive toothbrushes, pies, lemonade and whisky, for medicinal purposes only, the three men and Montmorency the dog (whose ambition in life is to get in the way) embark on their hilarious adventures on the Thames. After considerable enjoyment and irritation - getting lost in the maze, arguing with some quarrelsome swans, falling in the river - the three men decide that being out of a boat seems a more inviting alternative.

Despite being over a century old, its sparkling insights into human - and canine - nature ensure that Three Men in a Boat is as fresh and invigorating today as when it was first published.

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October's Book

Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Oct. 19th (3rd Wed.)
8pm at Emily's

Pick any edition of the book to read, several are available at the public library.

Summary:
Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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February's Book

A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain

Feb. 16th (3rd Wed)
8pm at Emily's

Summary:
A humorous account of Mark Twain's later travels in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy mixes memory and invention, history and exaggeration.

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