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Start: 11:30 am
Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 6:30 pm
Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. Our selection for September is Peter Parnell's play adaptation of The Cider House Rules by John Irving (Parts 1 and 2) in conjunction with the local anniversary production at Book-It Repertory. Spanning eight decades of American life, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch, founder of the St. Cloud's, Maine orphanage and hospital, and of the complex father-son relationship he develops with the young orphan Homer Wells. Homer's growth into adulthood begins first at St. Cloud's, and then out in the wide world, where he learns about life and love, and must ultimately decide whether to return to St. Cloud's and fulfill the destiny his "father" has always believed in for him. Whether you've seen the productions at Book-It, enjoyed the Irving novel, seen the Michael Caine movie, or read the playscripts, please join us for this lively discussion!
Start: 7:00 pm
A little three-evening sequence of remarkable writers from outside the U.S. (Daniel Kehlmann Monday, Emma Donoghue Wednesday) continues this evening with award-winning Vancouver novelist Annabel Lyon. Her astounding debut novel, The Golden Mean: A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Knopf) takes readers viscerally and with verisimilitude back to the day, 2300 years ago. "Historical fiction at its best ... Whether posing the eternally relevant questions of what it means to live a virtuous life, detailing the gory details of an ancient battle scene, or probing the relationship between master and student, Lyon authoritatively evokes a fabled time and place in the urbane and dry voice of the man judged the smartest of his age ... This is a pitch-perfect, even dazzling debut novel." - Elaine Kalmann Naves, Montreal Gazette. " ... Lean, taut, stripped down, The Golden Mean is dense with meaning while also managing to be crisp, direct, and contemporary. Lyon has a poet's eye without allowing her prose to become poetically langorous ... She also rips up the conventions of the historical novel ... Rich, fresh, strange, and deeply original." - Patricia Robertson, Canadian Notes and Queries.
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