Happy March Book Club Members!

Hello, and Happy March. We are so close to spring, can you feel it in the air? There’s nothing better than sitting in the sun, picking up a new book, and settling in to a new reading adventure! Anythink Library Huron Branch provided two of our Book Clubbers with an exciting adventure recently. The Library staff was kind enough to invite them to their Author Insider Luncheon with Jeffrey Siger, author of Assassins of Athens and Murder in Mykonos.

Siger was a lawyer at a firm in New York City when “I said one day, ‘What am I doing, I really love to write.’” He moved to Greece and started writing mysteries. “I wanted to take a ‘Mama Mia’ setting and turn it into ‘No Country for Old Men.’” Siger’s first novel Murder in Mykonos was the best selling English language book in Greece and made the top of book lists across the United States. His most recent work, Assassins of Athens, would outdo his freshman work to “inspire political change in Greece.”

Siger says he loves to read the classics and his favorite authors are Conan Doyle, and Thomas Perry. One of our Book Club members will win an autographed copy of Siger’s Assassins of Athens. If you’re a member, you’re already entered. The drawing is Friday, March 5. The winner will be notified by e-mail. Good luck, and be sure to check out Siger’s works.

Want to hear from other authors? Check out Off the Page on Thornton’s cable channel 8 on Comcast. Off the Page is an author interview show sponsored by the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library in Broomfield. Host and reference librarian Stacy McKenzie talks with local authors to find out the stories behind their books. For show times go to www.cityofthornton.net and click on the programming schedule.

Kathy B. just finished Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater and “found it to be very interesting.” She says she would recommend the book to anyone who enjoyed the Twilight series. This series is about werewolves. “When they say that you have a soul mate out there this book really makes you think about that, but this adds a different twist to the whole mind of loving someone,” she says. “It kept me wanting to read more each day.“

Joannine M. is reading Too Much Money by Dominick Dunne. “His works are destined to be classics,” she says. “He always tells such great stories, I can’t help but pick up anything he writes!”

Sharon. W. is reading Kisser by Stuart Woods. It’s the latest in the Stone Barrington series.

Lisa W. is reading Mark Twain: Man in White by Michael Sheldon. “I love Twain, she says, “and his personality lives up to his writing genius.”

Todd B. is reading No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos and David Einhorn. It’s the “exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.”

Member Laura W. says a friend of hers just left her job for new adventures, so she gave her the Dr. Seuss classic, If I Ran the Circus. “These books aren’t just for kids, adults love them too,” she says. “They are funny and inspirational at any age!”

Book ‘n’ Brew Book Club
Tuesday, March 9, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Anythink Thornton, 8992 Washington Street
Join this fun adult group as we discuss Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games. Refreshments will be served. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please call Anythink Thornton at 303-287-2514; visit us at 8992 Washington Street, Thornton, or go to anythinklibraries.org.

Spring arrives on March 20, we hope you welcome this bright new season with a new book! Let us know what you’re reading so we can share your choices with fellow book club members! See you in April, and until then,

Happy reading!