Senior Center Book Discussion: Frankenstein

Tue, Sep 22, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Amy Davenport leads a discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We all know the mad scientist and the monster. We’ve seen Boris Karloff in the seminal 1931 film and we’ve seen Mel Brooks skewer the film in his hilarious 1974 comedy. But have you read it more recently than in high school?
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father

Tue, Oct 27, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Award-winning author Stephen Fried’s 2018 biography of the lesser-known Founding Father Benjamin Rush was a finalist for the George Washington Book Award and an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Dubliners/The Dead

Tue, Nov 24, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

James Joyce’s “The Dead” is the final and longest of the stories in his collection Dubliners; at over 50 pages, it’s really more of a novella. Its centerpiece is a holiday dinner party during Christmas season on Twelfth Night with various conversations and interactions amongst the attendees illuminating themes of love, loss, life and death.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Tue, Jan 26, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Astrophysicist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson’s book brings us back full circle to another Senior Center book Mike Hess selected for our group back in 2018: Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. As with that earlier selection (whose discussion had record-breaking attendance!
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Senior Center Book Discussion: A Gentleman in Moscow

Tue, Feb 23, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Amor Towles’s best-selling second novel (following Rules of Civility) was a New York Times Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: A River Runs Through It

Tue, Mar 23, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Norman MacLean’s novella has taken its place as one of the most beloved works of semi-autobiographical fiction of the 20th century and a classic of the American West. MacLean’s prose has a lyrical, yet earthy, quality that has been favorably compared to that of Hemingway and Thoreau.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Wuthering Heights

Tue, Apr 27, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Emily Bronte’s novel is a staple of the English literary canon widely considered to be one the greatest novels in the English language and taking its well-deserved place on numerous “Best-of” and “Must-read” lists. It’s got it all: love, revenge, the moors.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Tue, May 25, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Techno-critic Nicholas Carr’s 2025 book takes aim at the internet in general and social media in particular along with commenting on how AI is expanding the problems created by the first two while creating others on its own.
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