Welcome to the 2023 edition of our All Books Considered Book Club!
Our host for 2023 is Bill Nemitz, who just stepped away from a 45-year career in Maine journalism, including the last 27 years as a columnist for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Welcome, Bill!
New this year: We will randomly select five book club members to receive a signed copy of that month’s featured title at each book club event.
If you aren’t a book club member, you can still sign up! It’s a free and great way to satisfy one’s love of books and to connect with the authors of the books you’ve enjoyed.
Want to watch previous book club meetings? Take a look at our archive below. Chances are there is an author or book that we've featured over the past two years that you've read.
Upcoming Book Club Events:
October Selection: It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs, by Mary Louise Kelly
This book club event will be held on Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 pm. Look for a link to the club to be posted here prior to the meeting.
"Mary Louise Kelly has written an achingly honest memoir that reflects the joys, regrets, pitfalls and triumphs of the modern working mother. Humor, heart, and humanity bounce off every. single. page. I felt like I was having a bottle (or two) of wine with a close friend whose balancing act very much resonated with mine ― and probably yours too." ―Katie Couric
November Selection: This Other Eden, by Paul Harding
"Not without complication, not without terror, 'This Other Eden' is ultimately a testament of love: love of kin, love of nature, love of art, love of self, love of home. Harding has written a novel out of poetry and sunlight, violent history and tender remembering. The humans he has created are, thankfully, not flattened into props and gimmicks, which sometimes happens when writers work across time and difference; instead they pulse with aliveness, dreamlike but tangible, so real it could make you weep." ―New York Times
Maine Public's All Books Considered Book Club is made possible through the generous support of Bull Moose and Coffee By Design.
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All Books Considered Partner Bookstores
These wonderful bookstores are providing a purchase discount to anyone purchasing an All Books Considered book club title while Maine Public is featuring each specific title:
