The Vista Book Group met in April to discuss Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  This book was crazy good, emphasis on crazy…and good!  Flynn does an exemplary job of setting a disturbing tone and an uncomfortable environment.  There is a kind of sinister vibe throughout the story which is told in three parts: Boy Loses Girl, Boy Meets Girl, and Boy Gets Girl Back (Or Vice Versa).

The Vista Book Group met in April to discuss Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  This book was crazy good, emphasis on crazy…and good!  Flynn does an exemplary job of setting a disturbing tone and an uncomfortable environment.  There is a kind of sinister vibe throughout the story which is told in three parts: Boy Loses Girl, Boy Meets Girl, and Boy Gets Girl Back (Or Vice Versa).

Monday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m is the time, the Flying Saucer is the place. If you're in your 20's or 30's, plan on meeting us there to swap books, talk books, and mingle.  Bring a new or gently used book to trade, and let's relax and have some fun!

The Vista Book Group met in March to discuss Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain.  There were five self-described introverts and three ambiverts in attendance.  Many of us have heard the terms introvert and extrovert, but few of us have probably heard the term ambivert. According to Ms. Cain and the psychologists whose studies she references in her book, there really is no such thing as pure introvert or extrovert.   However, most of us usually tend to lean prominently toward one end of the introvert-extrovert spectrum.  If a person falls pretty much in the center of the spectrum, they are known as an ambivert.

Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013, as Katherine Mellen Charron, author and associate professor of history at North Carolina State University discusses Freedom’s Teacher:  The Life of Septima Clark.

 Vista Book Group’s February read was the Life of Pi by Yann Martel which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize.  The book has three parts, the first of which details Pi Patel’s life in Pondicherry, India and touches on his later life in Toronto, Canada, the second part details his 227 days as a castaway on the Pacific Ocean after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, and the third and shortest part takes place in Mexico where Pi washes ashore and tells his “unbelievable” story to two members of the Japanese Ministry of Transportation Maritime Department. 

This year's thought-provoking One Book, One Columbia selection -- The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew -- brings up a lot of questions about race relations, gender roles, prejudice, civil rights in the South, family dynamics, and more. We'll be diving into all of these issues at the One Book, One Columbia Town Hall Discussion this Thursday, February 21st from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the Bostick Auditorium at the Main Library. 

During the month of February 2013, our whole community will be reading and talking about the same book through our One Book, One Columbia project. Would you like to get a sneak peek at the title of the book and be one of the first to check it out? Then please join us for our One Book Sneak Peak Reception on Tuesday, December 11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served and you'll have the opportunity to mix and mingle with other readers and literacy advocates from Richland County.  We will also have book club sets ready to check out. For those who are checking off their holiday gift lists, the book will be sold as well. All attendees will receive the coveted One Book lapel button and become our official Reading Advocates!