Scotch Plains Public Library Announces June Book Club Options

Join one of the Scotch Plains Public Library’s many book clubs.

On Monday, June 3 at 10 am, the library will host Bagels & Books, where book-lovers share their recent reading experiences with other bibliophiles and pick up suggestions for future reading. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required.

The library’s longstanding Evening and Afternoon Book Clubs will meet on June 17 and June 18 respectively.

On Monday, June 17 at 7 pm, the Evening Book Club will discuss Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Set in classy Shaker Heights, OH, the diamond-perfect Richardson Family is upended by the arrival of single-mom artist Mia Warren and her teenage daughter, to whom they rent a house. When friends attempt to adopt a Chinese American baby, all hell breaks loose.

On Tuesday, June 18 at 1 pm, the Afternoon Book Club will discuss A Piece of the World by Christine Baker Kline. To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, “Christina's World.”

Don’t have time to read this month? Then join other busy readers on Monday, June 24 at 7 pm to discuss the New Yorker article, “Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry” by Elif Batuman.

For more information or to register for Bagels & Books, go to www.scotlib.org, email library@scotlib.org, call (908) 322-5007 x 204 or stop by the Reference Desk. The Scotch Plains Library is located at 1927 Bartle Avenue, one block from Park Avenue in the center of town.