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: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

About the book:

"Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed."