March Selection
Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet,
By Jamie Ford, explores family, cultural tensions in WWII Seattle. It is a debut novel with abundant sentiment but not sentimentality as it describes the friendship and love between Chinese-American Henry Lee and Japanese-American Keiko Okabe in early 1940s Seattle. In the opening Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II.
APL Book Discussion Club
Please join us for our next meeting on:
Thursday, March 4th, 7:00 p.m.
Albany Public Library
2450 14th Avenue SE
Albany OR 97322
Albany Book Discussion Group
The purpose of this book group is to read a variety of books and share your thoughts about the readings. So if you love books and enjoy talking about them, you are in the right place!
You may find that you do not like all the books that are chosen for discussion. You may disagree with something that another member of the group has said. It’s okay to disagree, but please be polite and respectful of others whose opinions differ from your own.
Please only one person speaks at a time, and be mindful of the moderator’s suggestions.
It is important to keep on topic, but feel free to introduce information that is relevant to the discussion (historical facts, biographical details, book background, related authors or topics, etc.)
Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussions.
Previous Club Discussions
- Stubborn Twig, Lauren Kessler
- A Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, By Timothy Egan
- Church of the Dog, by Kaya McLaren
- Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- Zaatar Days, Henna Nights, by Maliha Masood
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time: a novel by Mark Haddon
- My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Anyone attending the book club is welcome to make suggestions for a future book selection. So if you have a favorite book that you think the club would be interested in reading and discussing, let us know and we will certainly consider it!
