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POSTPONED - Elevated Readers Book Club | The Year of Magical Thinking

POSTPONED - Elevated Readers Book Club | The Year of Magical Thinking In-Person / Online

This meeting has been postponed until further notice.
 
Please join us for an engaging discussion of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. 
 
Book club information, including current discussion questions and our What We've Read So Far (2011-Current) list can be found at www.orcity.org/library/elevated-readers-book-club.
 
The Elevated Readers Book Club, hosted by the Oregon City Public Library, is always open for new members. We also welcome drop-ins! The Elevated Readers Book Club is named after Oregon City’s unique "vertical street".
Date:
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Community Room
Audience:
  Adults (18+)  
Categories:
  Clubs     Virtual  
Registration has closed.

March 3 - The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall (register)

n The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action?

May 5 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (register)

1936. Tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. She joins Roosevelt's Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a traveling librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. 

July 7 - The Exiles by Christina Baker (register)

Three women find their lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia as they weather hardships and fight for redemption and freedom in a new society.

In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.

September 1 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (register)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

November 3 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (register)

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? Up until now Nora Seed's life has been full of misery. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she can now undo every decision she regrets.

January 5, 2023 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (register)

...set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York.

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