Adult Book Club Discussion

Lessons in Chemistry

Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, June 11, at 1:00 p.m. and Friday, June 14, at 1:30 p.m.  We will be discussing the book "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus.
 

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.  
 

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.

What:  Adult Book Club

When/Where:  Tuesday, June 11, at 1:00 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
                                              OR
When/Where: Friday, June 14, at 1:30 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library

East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2024

    

January: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

February:  Deep by James Nestor
 
March: Old Filth by Jane Gardam

April:  Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

May:   Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

June:  Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

July:  Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

August: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper & K. Howe

September:  The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner

October:  The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

November:  Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

December:  The Boys by Kate Hefner