Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break is not your typical book club. Instead of requiring everyone to read the same book, we gather for good conversation about different books, authors, and genres.
Each month we read books on a theme, and discussions take us all over the literary map. If you enjoy reading, this is the book club for you. We discuss books in a casual setting over coffee and refreshments, and most of us leave with a new book or two on our “to-read” list.
If you enjoy good conversations about books in a fun atmosphere, this is the group for you!
Join us for Senior Book Break the second Tuesday of every month at 10:30 am. Coffee and refreshments provided. Grover Beach Community Library, 240 N. Ninth St. Grover Beach
Westerns
Rails Across the Ranchos by Loren Nicholson An Interesting history of the development of San Luis Obispo County. Visionaries, developers and businessmen saw the potential in this Central Coast area. They encouraged the Southern Pacific Railroad to lay tracks from the...
The Library’s Non-Fiction Room
Dewey – A Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Non Fiction #590) On Jan. 18, 1988, with a temperature of -15 a Spenser, Iowa librarian went to get books from the book drop. They heard a noise and found a shaking gray mass of mud...
Food
Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...
John Steinbeck
Subject John Steinbeck Flight, a short story For centuries Big Sur residents spoke of “The Dark Watchers.” John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas and spoke of them in this short story. In the tale a teenage Indigenous Mexican American boy kills a man and is forced to flee...
August 2024 Odd Couples
Senior Book Break Subject: Odd Couples A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Count Alexander Rostov, born into Russian aristocracy, finds himself in Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the luxury hotel, Metropol, he...
Ancient Egypt
Crocodile on The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Our heroine is Emily Peabody in the first of six books. Our reader said she did not get to Egypt till 20 pages before the middle of the book. She found it very wordy, tedious, and skipped around even within a paragraph. ...
May 2024 – Children
Senior Book Break Subject: Children Suggestions for our next Book Break meeting is at the end. Wild Poppies by Haya Saleh Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War. This is a story of kids in a war zone. The book details the difficulties of...
April, 2024 — Plants
Subject: Plants Note: GBCL after title means it is available in our library. Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl This is a short story, The Sound Machine, about a man named Klausner, who gets to wondering about why humans are not able to hear dog whistles. What if...
March 2024 – Plants
Subject: Plants Note: GBCL after title means it is available in our library. Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl This is a short story, The Sound Machine, about a man named Klausner, who gets to wondering about why humans are not able to hear dog whistles. What if...
Senior Book Break – March 2024
Subject: Finish a book you started in 2023 The Mind of a Bee by Lara Chittka Our reader hadn’t finished this yet, but found out a lot of information he never knew before. The Way Of Chai by Kevin Wilson The history and the proper way to make Chai. Authentic...