If you are, check into Pageturners, the book discussion group series set up by the Multnomah County Library. The Library has book groups that meet at each of the libraries nearest to the King neighborhood. Here’s the 2011-12 lineup for each library’s group:
Albina
Second Wednesday of each month at 7:15 p.m.
The group meets in Studio 1 on the second floor of Whole Foods Market, next door to the library.
- Sept. 14 – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Oct. 12 – The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- Nov. 9 – Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Dec. 14 – The Invisible Wall: A Love Story that Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
- Jan. 11 – Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Feb. 8 – The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Heidi W. Durrow
- March 14 – Mink River by Brian Doyle
- April 11 – A Taste of Honey: Stories by Jabari Asim
- May 9 – My Abandonment by Peter Rock
- June 13 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
North Portland
Third Tuesday of each month at 6:15 p.m.
- Sept. 20 – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Oct. 18 – Mink River by Brian Doyle • Author visit!
- Nov. 15 – Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader by Avel Gordly • Author visit!
- Dec. 20 – Timber Beasts: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery of the Pacific Northwest by S.L. Stoner
- Jan. 17 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Feb. 21 – The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Heidi W. Durrow
- March 20 – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- April 17 – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- May 15 – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- June 19 – The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell