This winter the book vs. movie debate continues for all ages. Children and teens will have the opportunity during February vacation to participate when elementary aged children view and read Matilda by Roald Dahl and teens will do the same with Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Adults will do the same with the Big Read’s, The Maltese Falcon in March. 
Join the reading community - East of the River - as we celebrate this year’s book, Mr. Emerson’s Wife by Amy Belding Brown at these events:
October 3 - Meet Author Amy Belding Brown and listen to talk about her book at Douglas Library, Hebron, 7 PM
October 14 - Visit Concord and see all the places you have loved reading about. Call Welles-Turner Library at 652-7720 for details, $45.00 fee includes bus an admission to two attractions, register by Sept. 27.
What better reason to come to the library than for Story Time? Registration begins August 28 for Marlborough residents, September 5 for non-residents.
Session I - September 10 through October 19
Session II - October 29 through December 5
Two year olds meet Monday or Wednesday at 10 AM
Three year olds meet Monday or Wednesday at 1 PM
Four year olds meet with 3s on Wednesday at 1 PM
Four and five year olds meet Tuesdays at 10 AM or 1 PM
Under 12 months meet on four Fridays at 10 AM beginning September 14
12 to 24 months meet on four Fridays at 10 AM beginning October 19.
Mr. Emerson’s Wife by Amy Belding Brown has just been announced as this year’s East of the River Reads One Book selection. This interesting novel about Lydian Emerson, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson relates the fictional account of her life in Concord and her relationships with its other famous residents.
Multiple copies are available at Richmond and the author will speak in October at Douglas Library.
Here’s some other opinions about our choice:“This is the book I longed to read. It is the story of Lidian, the fascinating woman who was loved insufficiently by Emerson and perhaps too much by Thoreau. Amy Belding Brown has brought her back to life in a novel that glitters with intelligence and authenticity.” –Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders and March
“In this extraordinary book, Amy Belding Brown has brought the 19th century to life. We may think of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family and friends as static daguerreotypes, but in this story they lightly spring off the page with all the inconvenient desires and ambitions that are the texture of our own lives. A soaring imaginative leap, this book combines detailed history with a page-turning illicit love story. It’s a look at a rich moment in American History and a great read, a rare combination.” –Susan Cheever, author of My Name is Bill and Note Found in a Bottle
“Brown’s writing is graceful, at times giving Lidian a poetic voice….In an age when scholarly biographers meticulously document every detail in the actions and settings of their subjects, Brown has escaped to the freedom of fiction to suppose ‘what might have been.’” –Christian Science Monitor
