August
Book of the Month Date: Wednesday, August 27th Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00PM Price: €12,00 per meeting or block of 5 for €50,00 includes discussion and a coffee or tea. Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind. |
What's Next
August 27th: Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (historical fiction, coming-of-age) September 24th: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin (fiction, romance) October 22nd: Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Prachett (fantasy fiction) November 19th: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (classic, tragedy) December 17th: TBD (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue? The Shell Collector? Tom’s Midnight Garden? Books We've Read in 2025 January-Lessons in Diplomacy by Leigh Turner February- Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir March - There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak April - The Second Coming by John Niven May - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton (mystery, thriller) June- The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley (science fiction) July -Red Rising, by Pierce Brown (science fantasy fiction) Books We Read in 2024 January - Circe by Madeline Miller February - Femina by Jamina Ramirez March - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers April -Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett May - Stoner by John Williams June -Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley July - The Giver by Lois Lowry August -Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Gamus September - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd October - The Shining by Stephen King November - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros December - The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan Books We Read in 2023 January - Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde February - Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas March - Live Range by Jeffrey H. Fischer April - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro May - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Qwens June - Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams July - Sandman Vol 1 (Graphic) by Neil Gaiman August-The Truth about Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker September - Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris October - The Road by Cormac McCarthy November - A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz December - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll Books We Read in 2022 January- SpliIshigurog by Tanya Tagaq February - Walking into Alchemy by Amelia Marriette March - The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo April - Altruists by Andrew Ridker May - On Tyranny (the graphic edition) by Timothy Snyder June - Becoming by Michelle Obama August - Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood September - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis October - Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood November -The Midnight Library by Matt Haig December - Matilda by Roald Dahl Books We Read in 2021 January - Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri February -The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by C. Ryan Howard March - Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman April - Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger May - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng June - Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - The Lost & Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs August - The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett September 30th - The Man in The Red Coat by Julian Barnes October 14th - The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith November 25th - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore December 9th - Ickabog by J.K. Rowling |
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