Book Group
The Sherborn Book Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 11:00. We meet at the Sherborn Public Library. All are welcome to join the group. Please let us know if you would like to be added to the list of attendees by emailing coadirector@sherbornma.org or by calling 508-651-7858. We always welcome new readers.
March Selection
The Cafe at the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of LIfe
By John Strecky
In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, a visitor finds three unusual questions on the back of a menu.
Why are you here?
Do you fear death?
Are you fulfilled?
With this food for thought and the guidance of three people at the cafe, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Along the way realizing a new way to look at life, himself, and just how much you can learn from a green sea turtle.
Author John Strelecky is known for his ability to take complex topics like the meaning of life, and put them into easily digestible stories which have helped millions find purpose, joy and direction.
Your intuition has guided you here. Now find out why.
April Selection
The Orbital
By Samantha Harvey
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.
Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.