March Book Club
Our next book club meeting will be held on Friday, March 17 at 1:30 p.m. New members are always welcome! Ask at the circulation desk about getting a copy of the book.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”, Dr. Seuss
March 2nd was Dr. Seuss’ birthday. We decorated the children’s area to celebrate!
Check This Out!
We have a new book nook at the library! You have to see it with your own eyes. It’s really wonderful.
June Book Club
Our book club meets next on Friday, June 17 at 1:30pm. This month’s selection is The Reading List, a debut novel by Sara Nisha Adams. We have some copies available at the library. Anyone is welcome!
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.
Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.
When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list… hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.
– from Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55276648-the-reading-list
May Book Club
Our next book club meeting is on Friday, May 20 at 1:30pm. This month’s read is Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All The Light We Cannot See. We have lots of copies available at the library. Stop in and pick up your copy!
February Book Club
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? … Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
The next book club meeting is February 18 at 1:30pm. This month’s book is “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, a thought-provoking, beautifully written best seller. We have several copies at the library and hope that you’ll read it.
