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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

—Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Austrian writer, The Metamorphosis, The Trial

 

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Berthoud Book Club

The Berthoud Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 1:30 and 6:30.  The same book is discussed in the afternoon and evening.

 

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Sept. 22 - Huck Finn makes a break for freedom on the Mississippi River

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Oct. 27 – A high school freshman endures the wrath of school bullies

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Dec 1 (Date change)– Greg recounts experiences while building schools for impoverished villages

Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wrobleski

Jan. 26 – Forced to flee to the wilderness at a young age, Edward is raised in the wild, but later returns home to avenge his fathers’ death

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

March 23 – the story of two women and their story of friendship and endurance despite their abusive husband

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

April 28 – three women work to change the town they live in and people they live with, set in Jackson, Mississippi 1962

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

May 25 – an autistic savant provides us an inside look of his extraordinary life and condition