June's Book of the Month

 

Room by Emma Donoghu

 

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time.

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

The Silent Book Club of Goshen NH 

The Silent Book Club is for those introverts, and others, that would love to  join a book club but don't want to be tied to a specific book, discussions, or time frames. This is a come and enjoy the quiet and read at your own pace whatever book you want to read. 

We are currently meeting on the second and fourth Friday of the month in the Library from 6-7:30 pm. There is about 15 minutes at the beginning to talk about what your are reading, recommend or get recommendations from other participants, and maybe grab a cup of tea or coffee and a snack.

All are welcome and I hope you can join us. 

Last Year's Reads

 

December 2025

Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

 

November 2025

Remarkably Bright Creatures

 

October 2025

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

 

September 2025

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

 

August 2025

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

 

July 2025

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

 

June 2025

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

 

May 2025

On the Edge of Gone by Corrine Duyvis

 

April 2025

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourne

 

Thursday Night Book Club May Choice

 

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrick Backman

 

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones, but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's internationally bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and an ode to one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

 

There will be copies available at the library. Take a moment to come in and get a copy of the book to read and join us on April 2nd at 6 PM

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