YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2 PM. Newcomers always welcome. Meets in the Simpkins Reading Room.
July: No Meeting ______________
August: Thursday, August 21st at 2 PM
A choice of animal-related memoirs. Read one or both.
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People).
Or
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.
FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include:
June: Foster by Claire Keegan
May: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
April: James by Percival Everett
March: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and The Founding of a Nation by Nancy Rubin Stuart
February: The Stranger by Albert Camus
January:The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
November: You Are Here by Dave Nicholls
October: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
September: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
August: Octopus Month ______________
Looking Ahead YPL Book Group
Fall details to come. _________
Looking Ahead Neighborhood Book Group
No meeting July or August ____________
Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM. Meets in the Gale Room.
(Call the library for contact information and further information.)
No meeting July or August ____________
September: Thursday, September 11th at 4 PM.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. ____________
FYI: Past Neighborhood Book Group picks include:
June: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and The Founding of a Nation by Nancy Rubin Stuart
May: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
April: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
March: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
February: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
January: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
December: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
November:Clear by Carys Davies
October: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
September: The Moonstone by Wilke Collins ______________