This event has been postponed due to illness. We hope you will join us at one of the other North Woods discussions!

If you'd like to join us on Tuesday, November 12th, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, please use this link to sign up.

If you'd like to join us on Thursday, November 21st, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, please use this link to sign up.

Join us for an evening discussion of North Woods, by Daniel Mason, the Scoville Library's choice for our first-ever community read. 

Whether you've read the book sometime during the past year or are reading it now for the first time, this discussion is for you!

In this session, we'll discuss the entire novel — a sweeping saga of a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it and through the changes in the natural environment across the centuries.

Please use one of this links below to sign up for a discussion. Then stop by the circulation desk to pick up a free copy while supplies last.

 A limited number of copies are also available for borrowing. 

To sign up for the Tuesday, November 12th, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, discussion, please use this link.

To sign up for the Thursday, November 21st, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, discussion, please use this link.

Check the Scoville Library calendar for the Salisbury READS apple logo to learn about other community read programs and events!

What is "Salisbury READS North Woods"?

The Read is a series of discussions and events centered around North Woods and its themes. By encouraging the community to read North Woods and making copies available (50 giveaway copies, 50 free copies for event participants, and extra books for borrowing at the library), we hope to spark a shared experience of reading and community conversation. The library is partnering with the Salisbury Association and collaborating with other local organizations to bring you a series of varied activities that will run from mid-October through March.

Opening events will include an Apple Cooking and Baking Contest (October 27th), Book Groups (starting October 29th), talks on Current Day Hauntings in Connecticut (November 1st) and Wild Apples and Orchards with Matt Kaminsky (AKA Gnarly Pippins) (November 10), workshops on researching your home's history, nature writing, and landscape art, an archival photo exhibition, and more. Please check the Scoville Library calendar for details.

Why North Woods?

North Woods is a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries.

Widely admired by Scoville Library members (as well as critics and the media), this novel has been chosen for its literary inventiveness, its captivating sweep of human struggle and historical change, its brilliance, stunning style, and broad appeal, and its resonance with our own area's history, natural beauty, woodlands, wildlife, cultural shifts, and environmental changes. It also features heirloom apples, music, mysterious murders, forbidden love, family strife, passionate freethinkers, a mad pseudo-scientist, a renegade artist, devious criminals, the secret lives of trees, heroism, terror, romance, suspense, heartbreak, and homicidal ghosts.

Critics have called North Woods "brilliant," "dazzling," and "a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic." Whether you've already read it, were waiting to buy it in paperback (now available), or just want to find out what all the accolades are about, we hope you'll join us for this first-ever community read!

More about North Woods

North Woods is a Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year; Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award; and named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, NPR, Chicago Public Library, The Star Tribune, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Bookreporter. 

For more about North Woods, please visit our the Salisbury READ Launch page.