BLOOMFIELD GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSIONS
2012-2013 SEASON SCHEDULE
Meetings are held at the Bloomfield Township Library from 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. on Wednesdays as per the following schedule. All are welcome, but participants must register through the library by going online at www.btpl.org , or calling (248) 642-5800, ext 171. There is no charge.
Participants are responsible for obtaining their own books. For further information, call Ed Chalom at 248-644-2692
Sept 5, 2012 – William Trevor: Collected Stories (Penguin) 785-851
Sept 19, 2012 – Trevor: Collected Stories 852-906
Oct 3, 2012- François Mauriac: A Mauriac Reader – (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
Introduction, A Kiss for the Leper, Genetrix
Oct 17, 2012 – Mauriac: Desert of Love
Nov 7, 2012 – Mauriac: Knot of Vipers
Nov 20, 2012 (Tuesday) – Mauriac: Woman of the Pharisees
Dec 5, 2012 – Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
Jan 2, 2013- Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Jan 16, 2013 – Philip Levine: Selected Poems (Handout)
Feb 6, 2013 – Dostoyevsky: The Idiot Parts 1 & 2
Feb 20, 2013 – Dostoyevsky: The Idiot Parts 3 & 4
Mar 6, 2013 – Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment Parts 1, 2 & 3
Mar 20, 2013- Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment Part 4, 5,6, & Epilogue
Apr 3, 2013 – Trevor: Collected Stories 907-963
Apr 17, 2013 – Tolstoy: War and Peace Vol 1 (Parts 1, 2, Part 3 chap 1-9)
May 1, 2013 – Tolstoy: War and Peace Vol 1 (Part 3 Chap 10-19), Vol 2 Parts 1,2,3)
May 15, 2013 – Tolstoy: War and Peace Vol 2 (Parts 4,5) Vol 3 (Parts 1, 2 chp 1-16)
June 5, 2013 – Tolstoy: War and Peace Vol 3 (Part 2 chap 17-39, Pt 3) Vol 4 (Part 1)
June 19, 2013 – Tolstoy: War and Peace Vol 4 (Parts 2, 3, 4), Epilogue (Parts 1,2)