Fiction Addiction Book Club – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

*Note - We normally plan to meet the last Tuesday of the month at 6:00 PM but this meeting has been adjusted to accommodate those who participate in trick or treating on Tuesday, 10/31/23. For October Fiction Addiction will be reading and discussing Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

The Instant New York Times Bestseller!  A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joetta

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, character-driven” ( Booklist ) life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Book of Lost Name

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

*The Library will be adjusting the meeting time for Fiction Addiction during May-July to the third Wednesdays of each month at 4:00 PM (unless there is a state/national holiday that prevents us from meeting on the third Wednesdays). Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Between life and death […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard. In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you […]