Gain exposure to great literature through the library&rsquo\;s Great Books program\, which has reached its eighteent h anniversary. Participants find the Shared Inquiry&trade\; approach\, pop ularized by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation\, to be a powerful le arning tool. There are no right or wrong answers\, no papers and no tests! The readings are short and are suited to our busy lifestyles. We are curr ently reading from the anthology Counterparts\, in which the read ings complement each other by highlighting different aspects of a given th eme. \; We are making Counterparts available gratis upon regi stration\, thanks to a generous donation from friends and family of a form er group member. \; For more information\, contact Tom Cohn at 631-427 -5165\, x 270 or e-mail to tom_cohn@huntlib.org. Check out our blog at hpl greatbooks.blogspot.com. \; Registration is required. Open to all. \;
\n\n&ldquo\;The Immoderation of Ifat&rdquo\; by Sara Suleri (1953-1922) and &ldquo\;Now We are Five&rdquo\ ; by David Sedaris (1956- ) - We finish &ldquo\;Counterparts&rdqu o\; with the final theme of all: death. \; In the &ldquo\;Immoderation of Ifat\,&rdquo\; an excerpt from her memoir Meatless Days\,Pakistani-Ame rican author Sara Suleri remembers her sister Ifat\, tragically caught up in her country&rsquo\;s civil war of the 1970s. American humorist David Se daris in &ldquo\;Now We are Five&rdquo\; tells the story of a family beach vacation in which he and his siblings reminisce about their sister Tiffan y who had long kept herself apart from the family.
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