Read with Me » The Monk Downstairs http://albanypubliclibrary.wordpress.com Not your typical library book group. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/c0c1c469c89d2111422bf6b0f79b0ac5?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Read with Me » The Monk Downstairs http://albanypubliclibrary.wordpress.com The Monk Downstairs: wrapping up http://albanypubliclibrary.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/the-monk-downstairs-wrapping-up/ http://albanypubliclibrary.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/the-monk-downstairs-wrapping-up/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 16:01:19 +0000 albanypubliclibrary http://albanypubliclibrary.wordpress.com/?p=408 ]]>

Thanks for reading The Monk Downstairs with me! If you liked the book, you may also like these titles:

The Monk Upstairs by Tim Farrington (yes, it’s a sequel)

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

All Saints by Liam Callanan

Read with me in June — the book selection is David Eberhoff’s The 19th Wife!

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From the reader’s guide to The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington:

Michael Christopher initally tells Rebecca that he left the monastery because he “had a fight with his abbot.” Why do you feel he really left the monastery? What was he looking for? What did he find?

To expand on those thoughts, do you think that if Mike knew then what he knows now, he would have left the monastery sooner? And what do you think of only seeing Mike’s side of the correspondence?

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So if you were going to film The Monk Downstairs, who would you cast in the starring roles? Are there any characters from the book that you’d cut for the film version? What scenes might you consider cutting? How would you handle the one-sided epistolary “conversation” between Mike and Brother James?

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