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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012 Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons 10:00 AM, LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM A “A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times). |
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012 My Name is Mary Sutter (2010) by Robin Oliveira 10:00 AM, LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM A “The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak…. The novel offers readers a picture of a time of medical hardship, crisis, and opportunity … the amputation of a leg, the delivery of a baby, and soldierly life; these are among the fine details that set this novel above the gauzier variety of Civil War fiction.” (Publishers Weekly, v 257, issue 7, p111) |
