BCCC Book Club Kicks Off 2017 With "Game Of Thrones" Showrunner's Book

Is your New Year's resolution to read more? The Bucks County Community College is beginning its 2017 book club on Jan. 12 and is inviting the public to attend.

The new year will begin with a discussion on a book by the showrunner of HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones."

The free book club will discuss "City of Thieves" By David Benioff at 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12 in room 114 of the Rollins Center, located near the Student Life office at the college's Newtown campus, 275 Swamp Road, Newtown.

The group meets informally on the second Thursday each month during the academic year from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., the college said.

Literature professor Michael Hennessey runs the meetings and says group members come from a variety of backgrounds, but share a love of reading. In fact, the titles are suggested by group members at the last meeting of each semester, the college said.

“There’s not much conflict over the titles we choose,” Hennessey said in a statement. “We certainly often disagree about the value or worth of some titles and some characters, but it’s always a civil discussion.”

Publishers Weekly says Benioff has written an adventurous, bittersweet coming-of-age novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving WWII in Russia, according to the college. During the siege in Leningrad, 17-year-old Lev is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse and faces execution. But a colonel spares Lev and a Russian army deserter also facing execution if they can acquire a dozen eggs for the colonel’s daughter’s wedding cake. Their mission takes them behind enemy lines, where they take on an even more daring objective: to kill the commander of the local occupying German forces.

Other titles to be discussed are:

• February 9 – "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishiguro
• March 9 – "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• April 13 – "Commonwealth" by Ann Patchett
• May 11 – "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
• June 8 – "LaRose: A Novel" by Lousie Erdrich

For snow closing information, call (215) 968‑8000 or visit the college's website.

For more information, contact Hennessey at (215) 968-8164 or email Michael.Hennessey@bucks.edu.

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