Adults
Book Discussion Group: The Talented Mr. Ripley
This month we will be reading The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
Book Discussion Group: French Braid (in-person)
This month we will be reading French Braid by Anne Tyler.
Book Discussion Group: There There (in-person)
This month we will be reading There There by Tommy Orange.
Book Discussion Group: The Christie Affair
This month we will be reading The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont.
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha.
Email Basics Part 1
Learn how to Email in this introductory class!
Topics in this class include:
-What is Email?
-Registering for an Email Account
-The Gmail Window
-Receiving and Reading Messages
-Composing and Sending Messages
-Deleting Messages and Trash
-Signing Out
-Email Etiquette
Registration is required! Visit the information services desk or call 732-390-6767.
For questions regarding technology classes, contact the technology instructor at 732-390-6689.
Puzzle Tournament & Swap
Stop by our puzzle swap, OR join our puzzle tournament!
Teams of up to four players are invited to show off their jigsaw puzzle skills at this tournament.
Register your team, or register as an individual to be assigned to a team on the day of the event.
At the Maison Hannon (for G. C.)
In just twenty seconds and twenty steps, you’ll fall for her. Because at your request for poetry, she’ll recite to you, from unblemished memory, twelve lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in her native Italian as you ascend the gilded staircase together. And by the time you reach the top, you’ll have plunged into her poetic forbear’s despair. For what words could you summon in your language to retrieve your heart from her own?
18+ Silent Book Club of Central NJ
Registration is recommended. You can sign up by clicking here.
At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, comic books... it's BYOBook. Our events are free. Friends and strangers gather at a set time and location and settle in for an hour of silent, sustained reading. At the end of the hour, attendees can socialize—or not!
Meetings of the Silent Book Club of Central New Jersey rotate throughout Middlesex, Mercer, and Somerset counties.
The Hands of My Mother
Freckle-specked skin on the back of her hand with a wedding band and a solitaire diamond. On the fingers before hers, turquoise stones on silver. Before hers, plain gold. The hands of my mothers, working, fixing, making, smoothing, soothing. My thumb traces the skin of your hand and there I see ten fingers, pink nails, and freckle-specked skin on the back of your hand. Mine just like theirs, yours just like mine.