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Life Strategy Workshops
Friday, November 16
5:15 p.m.
Attracting the Life You Want
Saturday, November 17
Improving Your Intuition
10:00 a.m.
Thriving in the Face of Change
11:15 a.m.
Movies at the Library
Friday, October 12 at 2:00 PM: We Are Marshall
Starring Matthew McConaughey
124 minutes: Rated PG; Based on a true story about 75 people (37 players) involved with the Marshall University football team who died in a plane crash in 1970. McConaughey’s character, Jack Lengyel is hired to rebuild the team as a community mourns.
Friday, October 19 at 2:00 PM: Evan Almighty
Starring Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman
& Lauren Graham
95 minutes; Rated PG; Comic sequel to Bruce Almighty, — this time they’re building an ark.
Author Visit
John Elder Robison
Look Me in the Eye
On sale in bookstores September 25
His life with Asperger’s Syndrome
- His time in the music business with KISS, Pink Floyd, and others
- His time as a game engineer at Milton Bradley
- And, most recently, his life as a local automobile business owner (J E Robison Service in Springfield)
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Brother of author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors)
at
Kent Memorial Library
Thursday, November 1
7:00 p.m.
Friday, October 26 at 2:00 PM:
Reign Over Me
Starring Adam Sandler & Don Cheadle
124 minutes; Rated R; A drama about a man who lost his family on September 11.
Saturday, October 27 at 2:00 PM: Surf’s Up
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder & James Woods
85 minutes; Rated PG; Animated family comedy about surfer penguins, just incase you can’t get enough penguin movies.
Wednesday, October 31 at 6:30 PM:
The Way I Spent the End of the World
106 minutes; Not Rated; Romanian drama about living with hope for a new era in communist Romania.
First Thursday Book Discussion
First Thursday of the month at 12:30
Register by calling 668-3896.
November 1st 12:30
Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
As we wind up the spooky Halloween season and things are not what they seem, The First Thursday Book Group at Kent Memorial Library will be discussing The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (November discussion )and then The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (December).
One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards. Amazon
December 3 12:30
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian .
Readers will be startled to learn early on that the heroine of this engrossing puzzle, 26-year-old Laurel Estabrook, was born in West Egg. Wait a minute, wasn't West Egg where Jay Gatsby lived? Laurel works in a Burlington, Vt., homeless shelter and is trying to overcome mental and physical scars incurred from a brutal assault some six years earlier. After being given a portfolio of photographs taken by a recently deceased resident of the shelter, Bobbie Crocker, she becomes obsessed with questions surrounding what appears to be a picture of herself shot on the day of her attack. Laurel's already fragile mental state begins to unravel as she follows Bobbie's life from his rich-kid childhood on Long Island to homelessness in Vermont. The Gatsby references form the basis of the mystery, compelling readers to try to imagine how this fictional backdrop relates to the novel's "reality." It's a high-wire act for bestseller Bohjalian (Midwives), and while the climactic explanation may be a letdown for some, he generally pulls off a tricky and intriguing premise.
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