Malden Public Library

The Malden Public Library hosts two book discussion groups: The Monday Book Discussion and the Booker Prize Book Discussion. New members are always welcome! Copies of books for discussion are available at the information desk.

Monday Book Discussion Group

The Monday Book Discussion Group meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00p.m. in the Program Room.

Upcoming Books

• February 6, 2012 - School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
• Summary of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet:
• The novel follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps her students to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of their lives.


• March 5, 2012 - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• April 2, 2012 - Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
• May 7, 2012 - The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato

Call Barbara Brown at 781-324-9335 or The Malden Public Library at 781-324-0218 for further information

Booker Prize Discussion Group

The Booker Prize Discussion Group meets at 7:00 p.m. in the library on the fourth Wednesday of each month (This is the new schedule beginning in October 2011). Since 1969 the “Booker Prize” has been awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. For more information about the Booker Prize please visit www.themanbookerprize.com.

Upcoming Books:

• February 22, 2012 - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Summary of Black Dogs:
• A finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace. Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Seeking to comprehend how the deep love of Bernard and June Tremaine could be defeated, their son-in-law, Jeremy, undertakes writing June’s memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encounter forty years earlier.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Andrew Dempsey or the Library.