Afterthoughts Book Discussion Group

Name: Afterthoughts Book Discussion Group
Start: 2024-01-09T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-09T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Join via Zoom!

Program Type:

Book Groups & Reading

Age Group:

Adults

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Program Description

Event Details

A traditional book discussion group where everyone reads and discusses the same book. Join us!

Explore great books, join a lively discussion, and meet others who enjoy reading too. New members are always welcome! Meets online at noon on the second Tuesday of every month. Library copies of the book are available at the Central Library's second-floor Circulation Desk. Click here to join the monthly Zoom meeting.

For more information or to receive Afterthoughts email reminders and updates, please contact Lisa Lipshires at llipshires@springfieldlibrary.org or (413) 263-6828, ext. 202

This month's book selection:

Cover: The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward

The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus by Lucy Ward (2022) nonfiction.

As smallpox ravaged her empire and threatened her court, Catherine the Great took the momentous decision to summon the Quaker physician Thomas Dimsdale to St. Petersburg to carry out a secret mission that would transform both their lives.