Discussions

This month’s book is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Usually in non-fiction, the author is separate from the work, but in this book the author is a character. How you do feel about authors being part of their stories? Henrietta Lacks’ tissue was taken without her knowledge and used for research.…

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Hello dear readers! Please join us in our May book discussion where we talk about Educated by Tara Westover. 1) Have you read Education by Tara Westover? What did you think? 2) Much of Tara Westover’s education occurs outside the classroom. Aside from your own school teachers, who have been important “educators” in your life? …

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This month, dear readers we are reading Tenth of December – stories by George Saunders. Proclaimed by Time to be “the best short-story writer in English—not ‘one of,’ not ‘arguably,’ but the Best”, by the Guardian as a “book to make you love people again”, and by Entertainment Weekly as a book that ”will make you…

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This March, the Time to Read podcast book club is reading The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Canadian author Craig Davidson. We hope you’ll join us! In the book, 12-year old Jake along with his eccentric Uncle C, form a spirit-hunting gang called the Saturday Night Ghost Club. The gang explores the many supposedly haunted places…

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