BYOB (Bring Your Own Book!) Book Club! Always wanted to join a book club but didn’t have the time to commit to the reading or tired of the assigned books? This is the event for you!
It’s a book club with a twist. Instead of reading a pre-determined title, we’ll meet and talk about what you’re currently reading and get suggestions for new titles to try. Can’t wait to talk about your new favorite read? Just want to listen in? Readers of all stripes are welcome.
We’ll meet on Wednesday, August 7th at Noon in the Bowman Regional Public Library. Tasty snacks provided and we’ll feature a different specialty tea for you to sample if you so desire. No registration is required. Age 18+ Join us!
We typically meet the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the library. Come join us! This fall, we are reading: September- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, October- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, November- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. We have copies available for checkout at the Library circulation desk or you can borrow an eBook or digital audiobook through Libby. Audience: Adults.
Non-Fiction Book Club meets once a month at the library to talk about great books. Each month we discuss a different book. Copies of the books are available at the Library. This month’s book is Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson.
The group is open to all, and there is no registration required. The group meets the second Sunday of the month from 2:00-3:00PM at the Bowman Regional Public Library.
For more information, email Sarah at bowlib@gmail.com.
Book synopsis: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson’s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history.
