PLEASE NOTE: DISCUSSION GROUPS
ARE
FOR MEMBERS ONLY
The Culinary Discussion Group provides a setting for those Athenaeum members with a particular interest in food. Discussions and talks are designed to advance the knowledge of food and cookery and to deepen our appreciation of the place of the culinary arts in history, society and culture. The discussion group meets on the second Monday of the month at 6:00 p.m.
Winter Program
April 9th
Jeffrey Quinlan and company will discuss the history and styles of brewing beer
April 9th
Jeffrey Quinlan and company will discuss the history and styles of brewing beer
No summer Culinary Discussions
are scheduled.
See
you in January,
cheers! Mary DiZazzo-Trumbull
The Fiction Book Group meets on the first Monday of each month at 6:30
p.m.
BOOK SELECTIONS
April 9: Germinal by Emile Zola
May 7: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by
Yu Hua
June 4: Middlemarch by George Eliot
July 9: Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
August 6: Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
September 10: The Amalgamation Polka by
Stephen Wright
October 1: The Line of Beauty by Alan
Hollinghurst
November 5: Suite Française by Irene
Nemirovsky
December 5: The Ruins by Scott Smith
Literary Conversations meets on the 3rd Monday of each month at 6pm to discuss works of literature, from the Greek classics to contemporary bestsellers.
Members take turns leading the discussions and are in active e-mail correspondence with the group regarding the books selected and background issues. Members are invited to join the Literary Conversations dutch treat dinners following the meeting at the Grotto on Bowdoin Street.
Book List from Literary Conversations Past Meetings
BOOK SELECTIONS
Fall 2006: The History of the Siege of
Lisbon by Jose Saramago
Fall 2006: Fathers and Sons by Ivan
Turgenev
Fall 2006: The Leopard by
G. Di Lampedusa
Fall 2006: The Power and the Glory by
Graham Greene
January 22: Gargantua and Pantagruel by
Rabelais
February 26: Gargantua and Pantagruel by
Rabelais
March 19: One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
April 23: Snow by Orphan Pamuk
May 21: Fear and Trembling by Soren
Kierkegaard &Mimesis by Eric Auerback
June 18: The Illiad by Homer
The Mystery Novel Group meets on the last Monday of each month at 6:00 pm.
BOOK SELECTIONS
April 30: Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
May: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Mystery Novel Resources
The New England Seminar meets the first Monday of every month at 6:00 pm. The Group reads fiction and non-fiction written about Boston and New England. Past selections include Santayana's "The Last Puritan," Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club," Dorothy West's "The Living Is Easy," William Dean Howells' "The Rise of Silas Lapham," Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Collected Short Stories."
Book List from New England Seminar Past Meetings
BOOK SELECTIONS
May 7: Summer and Ethan Frome by
Edith Wharton
June 4: TBD
September 10: Mayflower by Nathaniel
Philbrick
The Poetry Study Group will meet again at 5:30 PM on Monday, May 7th and continue with its discussion of the poetry of Louise Bogan contained in her volume entitled "The Blue Estuaries".
We will also discuss the April issue of "Poetry Magazine", in response to the effort on the part of its editors to encourage poetry discussion groups nationwide. If you subscribe to this magazine please come with your own copy. If you do not subscribe and would like to join us, please pick up and read one of the extra copies of this issue, which are available at the Circulation Desk at the Athenaeum. We are always happy to be joined by new participants.
ALL
ARE WELCOME!
The Shakespeare Discussion Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 12 pm. The format of the discussion is open: we can take parts and give dramatic value to our reading, or we can read alternate speeches. Suggestions for other modes are welcome as are questions and comments during the meetings. Current leaders have some knowledge of Shakespeare, his works and his times, but are always interested in learning more.
To be included in email announcements of future meetings, send your information to:
Jean@razorbill.com
BOOK SELECTIONS
April 10: Winter's Tale Act 3
The Trollope Discussion Group meets on the last Monday of each month, at 6:00 PM.
BOOK SELECTIONS
April 30: Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
May: TBD
The World History Book Group meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:00 pm.
BOOK SELECTION
April 9: Near a Thousand Tables: A History
of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
May 14: France and the French: A Modern History
by Rod Kedward
June 11: The Zimmermann Telegram
by Barbara Tuchman
Book List from World History Past Meetings
When Big Ben tolls DONG,DONG,DONG, This is London Calling----August 20th, 1940 "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
The Group will meet on the third Saturday of the month at 10:30 am
BOOK SELECTIONS
April 21: Mussolini by R. J. B. Bosworth
May 19: Begin The Last European War by John
Lukas
September: The Last European War by John
Lukacs
World War II Resources
Book List from World War II Discussion Past Meetings
Please contact me if you have any questions, Dan Moulton djmoulton@verizon.net