The Bushwick Book Club Presents Madame Bovary

Each month the members of the Bushwick Book Club read a literary work, then write and perform songs about it. In honor of Valentine's Day, they chose Madame Bovary. There was also a game called What Would Madame Bovary Do? when confronted with such situations as being drafted into the army; answers included "yearn"and "yell at the maid." Amid the occasional catcall yesterday at the Brooklyn Public Library, performers like Phoebe Kreutz and Natti Vogel sang about greed and lust, heartbreak and grooming.

The afternoon's best lines:

• "Life is opera to Madame Bovary"
• "I don't give a toot about being a good mother or wife"
• "It's Yonville that makes me yawn"
• "Uh-oh! Emma! . . . Here comes the wind again!"
• "Money is for spending / bon-bons is for eating"
• "I've got illusions / I'm gonna lose them / that's what they're there for"
• "How can you think I've got it all / when you're all I've got?"
• "Ride those ponies tonight"