Let’s Read (and talk about it) is a special winter book conversation series presented by the McCall Public Library.
This is a FREE event and all discussions begin at 6pm on Wednesdays at the McCall Public Library.
Books are available at the McCall Library while supplies last and for purchase at The Barn Owl Books.
If you have ever wished you could sit and discuss what you’re reading with your local librarian, this series is for you! This eclectic book selection ranges from a variety of genres that is sure to get you out of your comfort zone and experience the broader reaches of literature. Spanning topics from man’s internal struggles, to what it means to be human, to how the one ring was stolen from Smaug. The readings were selected with discussion in mind and are sure to spark interesting conversation. Free program, books are included with the required registration (while supplies last).
READING SELECTIONS AND PROGRAM DATES
January 10th
Delivering Virtue
Scholar: Brian Kindall
An absurdist adult fiction novel set in 1854 in the American West. Didier Rain – scalawag, poet, and would-be- entrepreneur – is hired by an upstart church to deliver a child bride to the sect’s prophet across a frontier fraught with perils.
January 31st
Killers of the Flower Moon
Scholar: Diane Penny
Journalist David Grann’s 2017 best-selling book recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed “true friend” of the Osage Nation orchestrated the brutal murders of numerous members of the tribe in early 1920s Oklahoma.
February 21st
All Systems Red
Scholar: Casey Bruck
All Systems Red is the story of ‘Murderbot’ – a self-aware security android who hacked their own controlling governor module, freeing themselves from control. But rather than rebelling against their corporate overlords, they just want to be left alone to figure out who they are, what they want, and how they can find more time to watch the next episode of their favorite show.
March 13th
The Hobbit
Scholar: Deb McCoy
Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug.
April 3rd
Two Old Women
Scholar: Heidi Strohmeyer
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful.