All are welcome to join lively discussions of books selected annually by regular participants. Readers are welcome to sit in on a session to meet the group. We meet the third Tuesday of every month in the Collins Room, Ipswich Library, from 6:30-7:45 PM. Registration is not required. We read mainly current fiction but are open to any suggestions from readers. Each month, Ipswich Library staff order the books from the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium and make copies available in multiple media. Discussions are animated and book selections can be eclectic. Topics can include the book’s merits, its relation to other books, and lessons conveyed. The author’s life and body of works are often included.

For more information contact: Pam Whitmore at pam_whitmore@yahoo.com or 814-572-6594

This month's book is: Finding Freedom: A cook's story, remaking a life from scratch by Erin French

About the Book:

"As a teenager, French fell in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner. She found her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. In her memoir, she opens up to the challenges, stumbles, and victories that have led her to the exact place she was ever meant to be: multiple rock-bottoms; survival as a jobless single mother; pills that promised release but delivered addiction; and nd of the son who was her guiding light as she slowly rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found in food."