Carnegie's Book Club | Practical Magic

We’re heading back to our old stomping grounds for an offsite book club at Carnegie’s Restaurant in Greenfield! We’ll meet upstairs in the private Empire Room at Carnegie’s (100 W Main St., Greenfield). Registration is required.

This book club meets on the last Tuesday of every month and features popular titles selected by a rotating cast of HCPL librarians. HCPLibrary will provide bread & butter for each guest and a crudité platter to share; participants are welcome to purchase additional items from the Carnegie's menu.

On May 26, Nicole Scurlock will lead a discussion of Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (and the sequel, Book of Magic, on September 29). Participants are encouraged to read the book in advance. Ask for a copy at the library’s Information Desk, listen to the audiobook on Hoopla, or check out the eBook on Libby.

Practical Magic

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic. For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic.

June's book will be Animal Farm by George Orwell, with a discussion led by Genealogy and Local History Librarian Charity Munro.