Patagonia Library’s Book Study Group will recommence on October 20. This year’s theme is the perennially fascinating topic of Money.

Once again we will meet on Thursday afternoons at 3:30-5:00 in the council chambers of the town hall. Everyone is welcome, and potential members are asked to tell the Librarian that they would like a copy of the book. When you pick up a book at the Library, you will be asked for a minimum donation of $5.00 per title.

If you would like to be on the list for information and further details, please give your email address to the Librarian, libinfo@patagoniapubliclibrary.org, or directly to the convenor, Gail Eifrig, at eifrig@dakotacom.net or 455-0474.

Our schedule includes the following:
October 20: Raymond Chandler’s classic The Long Goodbye, a tale of greed, murder, deceit, loyalty and love set in a very noir-ish LA in the fifties. (Two great films for extra credit!)

November 17: Silas Marner by George Eliot

December 8: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s problematic encounter with capitalism and racism, with a good many other things as well.

January: a collection of short stories, ranging from DuMaupassant, O’Henry and Conan Doyle to Erdrich, O’Brien and Proulx.

February: The Panama Hat Trail, by Tom Miller. A non-fiction account by an accomplished writer of the economy of hat production in Central and South America. Tom is a Patagonia habitue and will in February.

March and April will have four sessions on Dickens’ Little Dorrit. Here is the great writer’s greatest unknown book, one that encompasses all he has to say about capitalism, obsession, love, vanity, hypocrisy, secrets, crime, revelation, sex, death, government, art and, yes, money. (A marvellous 6 hour film version came out in about 1990.)