The HVCC Novel Bunch will meet twice this fall to discuss the following two books and hear from Jim LaBate, our own Hudson Valley Community College author. Both of these meetings will be held on Mondays at 2 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Marvin Library Learning Commons.
For more info. contact Anne LaBelle at a.labelle@hvcc.edu or 518-629-7384.
Monday, Oct. 30 — #1 New York Times Bestseller “Man Called Ove”
by Fredrik Backman
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon — the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
Monday, Nov. 20 — “The Things I Threw in the River: The Story of One Man’s Life”
by Jim LaBate
In the novel, the first-person narrator lives near the Mohawk River in upstate New York during the 1950’s, ’60’s, ’70’s, and ’80’s. He tells a series of related stories about what he threw into the river and why. The first story concerns an incident that occurs when the narrator is four years old, and the final story occurs in 1988 when he is 37. That final story is the most dramatic of all, takes up 50% of the novel, and is based on a real incident.
Published: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:30:28 +0000 by v.waldin