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Book groups

Seymour Library sponsors a variety of book groups for readers with diverse interests. Coffee and Conversation book clubs meets monthly, with one group meeting on Mondays at 7 p.m. and the other group meeting Thursday mornings at 10 a.m.

The library also sponsors a monthly Coffee and Crime Mystery Book Group, which usually meets at noon the second Tuesday of the month. The mystery book club looks at a different theme each month.  Participants are asked to read one of the suggested titles that represent the theme. Anyone with an interest in mysteries is invited to join.

Click on the links to see what books the clubs are reading. For information on Seymour Library book clubs, contact Lisa Carr at lcarr@seymourlibrary.org or call the library at 252-2571.

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See 2008 and 2009 selections

Thursday Morning Book Group

2010 selections

Monday Evening Book Group 

2010 selections

Coffee and Crime mystery book club

January: Bibliomysteries and librarians: A grand complication by Allen Kurzweil., Ex-Libris by Ross King, The Name of the Rose by Eco Umberto.

February: Edgar Award winners: Blue Heaven by  C.J. Box, The Foreigner by Francie Lin,
China Lake by Meg Gardiner, Down River by John Hart, In the Woods by Tana French.

noon Tuesday, March 9: Teen Mysteries. Questions to think about: Are mysteries written for young people held to a different standard? Are they good mysteries? Are there good mysteries from the adult authors that you think would appeal to teens? What did you like or not like about these selections?

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd. Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off – except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller – a race against time.

The Crazy School by Cornelia Read. Madeline Dare has traded in the drudgery of living in backwoods Syracuse, New York, to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Behind the ornate gates of the academy, she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies. From her first day, Madeline doubts Dr. Santangelo's credibility - and she's not afraid to voice her concerns. But she quickly discovers that many of her colleagues are devout followers of the dean. When a chilling event confirms Madeline's suspicions, she feels trapped within a school full of lunatics. Shut off from the outside world, Maddie forms an unlikely alliance with a small group of rebellious students, whose constant resistance to authority may be her only salvation.

noon Tuesday, April 13: The Big Easy - mysteries set in New Orleans. Pelikan: Love, Redemption and Felony Theft by David Lozell Martin, Dinner at Antoine’s by Frances Parkinson Keyes, Down in the Flood by Kenneth Abel, Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke, House of Blues by Julie Smith.