Labor Day Closure; End of Summer Hours
The library will be closed Monday, September 4, in observance of Labor Day. Our extended summer hours end Saturday. We’ll go back to regular hours starting Tuesday, September 5:
- Monday 12-6
- Tuesday and Wednesday 12-4
- Thursday 12-6
- Friday and Saturday 10-6
- Closed Sunday
Reading Challenge Discussion
Thursday, September 14, 5:30 p.m.
Community Room and Zoom
We’re looking forward to hearing what everybody’s been reading for the 2023 Reading Challenge: 12 Books Recommended by 12 Friends. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion, whether or not you’re participating in the Challenge.
Book Club: The Glass Castle
Tuesday, September 26, 5:30 pm dinner, 6:00 pm discussion
Community Room and Zoom
This year, Book Club is reading books that have been challenged somewhere, sometime in the United States. We’re meeting the 4th Tuesday of each month (except December) through April. We’ll enjoy a shared meal before discussing the book.
September’s book is The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves.
Books are available at the library. Other books we’ll read this winter include:
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
We could still use a couple volunteers to lead book discussions, and volunteers to bring food. Please let us know if you’d like to help: [email protected].
Author Reading
Thursday, September 28, 5:30 pm
Community Room
We’re looking forward to hosting Pearl Whitfield (aka Margot Dodds of Lakeview, Oregon) for a reading from her latest novel, Apsara, the story of a young girl in a remote village in 12th century Cambodia. Bopha loves to dance and is chosen to train as an Apsara (court dancer) for King Jayavarman VII. Apsaras dance to bring heaven to earth, blessing the land with prosperity. Bopha walks from her home to Angkor Wat, and begins a life she could never have imagined. This work of historical fiction grew from an experience that Whitfield had in 2013 in Cambodia.
Whitfield’s first novel was The Storekeeper, A Tale of Small Town Life, featuring a man who moves to a small town in the inter-mountain west after his wife dies. Ralph buys a mom-and-pop store, enters into community life, and starts to heal from his grief.
Author Luncheon
Thank you to everyone who attended our annual Author Luncheon last month. Samantha Silva gave a wonderful talk, including reading the inspiring last pages of her novel Love and Fury. Ben and Heather outdid themselves at the Stanley Supper Club — lunch was absolutely delicious. We are already looking forward to next year.
September Events
Monday, September 4
Library Closed for Labor Day
Tuesday, September 5
Regular Hours Resume
Tuesday, September 12, 5:15 pm
Board Meeting
Wednesday, September 13
Stanley School Visit: K-4th grade
Thursday, September 14, 5:30 pm
Reading Challenge Discussion
Thursday, September 21
Stanley School Visit: 5th-8th grade
Tuesday, September 26, 5:30 pm dinner, 6:00 pm discussion
Book Club discussing The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, in person and via Zoom
Thursday, September 28, 5:30 pm
Author Reading: Pearl Whitfield reading from Aspara