Groups to Join
Membership is not required to participate in groups at the Athenaeum. All are welcome!

Several groups are on summer break. Please check the dates under each group.

La Tertulia
Meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday—online
from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
La Tertulia is a group of people interested in keeping their Spanish speaking skills in practice.

 

Book Group
Meets the 2nd Saturday
from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM—hybrid
Open discussion meeting on wide variety of fiction and non-fiction works, new and classics.

Upcoming discussions:

2024

Jan. 13:
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

February 10:
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

March 9:
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

April 13:
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

May 11:
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker

June 8:
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang                   

August 10:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

October 12:
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

November 9:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

December 14:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

 

Any Book Group
Sign up here
Meets bi-monthly on Third Thursdays
Next meeting: January 18 at 7:00 p.m.—online
A book discussion group for readers of all genres.

 

 

Monday Evening Conversations
Meets the 2nd Monday at 7:00 PM—Online
Sign up here
Topics for discussion are wide open, but must be amenable to good conversation.

 

Reappraisal Reading Circle
Meets Bi-monthly on Third Wednesdays—hybrid
at 7:00 PM Sign up here
Open meeting discussing the works of a prolific, popular author of the past whose works are held in quantity by the Athenaeum.

2023–24 Discussions:

Sep 18
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
French founder of realism, novelist and playwright

Nov 13
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
American novelist, short story writer, poet, local colorist (Maine)

Jan 15, 2025
Mary Augusta Ward
(Mrs. Humphrey, 1851-1920)
British novelist, educator, and activist

Mar 19
Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852-1931)
English novelist of both romances and modern ideas

May 21
Joseph C. Lincoln (1870-1944)
American novelist, poet, short story writer of Cape Cod

June 18
Selection meeting for 2025–26

 

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