The Booked on Crime book club meets every third Thursday of the month at 7:00 PM.
Currently, the selections are chosen two months at a time. The upcoming meetings and book selections are:
January 21: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
February 18: Yesterday's Echo by Matt Coyle
The Burlingame Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month and is run outside of the library, but the library assists the group in acquiring the book selections. The group chooses a year's worth of selections at the December meeting.
Contact Judy Laird at 650-574-3640 for more information.
2020
December 15th
Book Selection for 2021
by Ann Patchett
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.
January 2021
The Dutch Houseby Ann Patchett
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.
