New Providence Memorial Library's Online Reading Group discussion

Are you watching The Great American Read or looking at the list of 100 books/ series that have been nominated?

Each weekly episode on PBS from September 18 through October 16 will have an overarching theme, and NPML will be posting a question related to each week's theme here if you wish to join the discussion online.

Upcoming Great American Read happenings at the library:

Now through October 23:
Guess which title will win The Great American Read! Put your guess in the jar by the Great American Read book display. A winner will be drawn from the correct guesses after the season finale on October 23. The prize: a pair of free Newark Museum tickets. Some of the titles New Providence residents have guessed so far are here:



Tuesday, October 2 from 7 pm to 8 pm
"Book List Bullet Journaling"
Bring your own journal or notebook, and a pen. We'll work on writing out our "to read" or other book lists in bullet journal format. Examples and printables will be available for inspiration. PBS Great American Read stickers will be available if you wish to make a list of the 100 books/series that have been nominated.

One of my favorite books of all time: "The Book Thief"

I thought The Book Thief was excellent also but my vote went to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It's hard to have just one winner!!!

the good news, is that you can vote every day if you want :-) so you can hit all your faves

i voted for the book thief one day, and the good earth another time.

watched the episode last night. it looks like a repeat of the pilot in the spring. loads of fun !

I watched last night's episode. It was the first one I ever watched. Good thing I have it on DVR, now I can watch it again with the book list in hand so I can make notes.

you can catch (already aired) episodes on pbs.org

search pbs the great american read

Sangeeta wrote: "you can catch (already aired) episodes on pbs.org

search pbs the great american read"

How many episodes are there in "The Great Read" or whatever it's called? I watched the first one and DVR recorded the recent one - but was wondering if it was a repeat.

Just 1 think. I believe that
Tuesday was a repeat of the spring pilot

According to the PBS September program booklet, there are more episodes and while they seem same (and I think some aspects are the same) they do cover different books. That's just what it seems like to me...but I have not seen all of the most recent show. My DVR is set to record upcoming episodes.
And, PBS has programs about some of the authors and upcoming is Harper Lee.

i think each week will have a theme