January Events!

New Year, New Building, New Events!

I am not one to blow my own horn, at least not overtly, but I am going to put myself first here. We have a new book club called Books 'n Brew. This is not to be confused with the Books and Brew Coffee house in Eastport. That is just an unfortunate coincidence in name. If we continue on with the program we will change the name, and I am taking suggestions now. The "He Man Book Club" has already been rejected.

The reason for the creation of this new club comes from my conversations with other people who run book clubs. It came to my attention that men, for the most part seemed to stay away. "Perhaps", I thought, "a Jane Austen marathon is not the best way to get the men-folk to the meetings". I devised a plan to have a book club that, though not geared toward men exclusively, (that would be boring, and quite possibly illegal) but would at least have some appeal to the male readers: Adventure, Espionage, Westerns, Non-fiction, and so on.

Last month we read Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler, a Dirk Pitt adventure considered by many to be the best of the series. This Month we will be discussing Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag. This is true, but reads like fiction story, of submarine warfare and espionage. There is a Reader's Map for this title in the right hand collum of this page. Our book discussion will be Monday, January 26th at 7:00 PM at Simon's Beach Bakery on Main Street. I promise won't talk about our feelings, but we will talk about stuff blowing up.
The Monday Night Book Club hosted by Malinda will be discussing The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander on January 12.

Edgar Allan Poe
We are also celebrating the 200 birthday of the great American author (and inventor of the Detective Story genre) Edgar Allan Poe, with a tea and a read around at the Sunset Cafe on Sunset Ave in Westhampton Beach on January 31 at 2:00.