Book Discussions at Both Westchase Area Libraries Next Week

Both of Westchase's libraries will offer book discussions about award winning pieces of literature on Monday, Dec. 19.

• At the , "The Corrections," by Johnathan Franzen, a winner of the National Book Award for Fiction will be discussed. The book explores an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. Discussion is at 11am-12:30pm. 11211 Countryway Blvd in Tampa.

• The will host Mary Ann Marger, a speaker at the the Florida Holocaust Museum and at USF-St. Petersburg, will discusses her book, "Departure," which followsd a German and his close friendship with a Jewish boy who causes him to courageously defy his Nazi indoctrination. Discussion is at 2pm-3pm. 17808 Wayne Rd. in Odessa.