“I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso. Worse is that he loves them as much as he loves you, which is to say not at all, really.”
Friday, April 12, 2019, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan.
Friday, March 15, 2019, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.
Friday, February 15, 2019, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes.
Friday, January 18, 2019, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Friday, December 21, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah.
“I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn't have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship... Because that's all we can do: Carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can.”
Friday, November 23, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam.
Friday, October 26, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
Friday, September 28, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly.
Friday, August 17, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
“We go downstairs and in the hall, he takes my coat from the cupboard and holds it open while I slip my arms into it. In the drive outside, he holds the car door for me and waits until I’m in. As he closes it behind me, I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.”
Friday, June 22, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf.
Friday, May 25, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman.
Friday, April 13, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
I just started watching Blue Planet II this weekend. This show is fabulous! It is filmed in high definition with amazing photography, beautiful music, and splendid narration by David Attenborough. There are unbelievable action sequences of nature that are entertaining, educational, and amazingly gorgeous. Best of all, the entire family can watch it.
“Dangerous to think you know too much, sometimes, because who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
"Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is he receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price."
This is one of only a few known first-hand accounts of the re-education system established by Maoist China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
“Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.”
Rear Window meets Gone Girl. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is voyeuristic like Rear Window, with an unreliable narrator like Gone Girl; this psychological thriller is a page turner!
