The Community Library Winter Book Group: Race through Time Thursdays, January 21-February 25, 4 to 5 p.m., Zoom In conjunction with the community-wide read of the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, this year’s Winter Book Group will focus on three books that address the legacy of slavery and also move us through time in challenging ways. We will begin with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, a memoir from 1845, arguably the most influential slave narrative ever … [Read more...] about ZOOM – Winter Book Group: “Race through Time”
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ZOOM: Audacious Read Book Group: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
2021 AUDACIOUS READ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Fourth Tuesday of Each Month | 3:00-4:00 p.m. | Zoom Of Gabriel García Márquez, the writer Salman Rushdie said, “No writer in the world has had a comparable impact in the last half-century.” In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, García Márquez stated, “In spite of [. . .] oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life [. . . . W]e the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to … [Read more...] about ZOOM: Audacious Read Book Group: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Bellevue Public Library
REGISTER HERE This discussion is part of the 2021 Winter Read of Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred. The Bellevue Public Library will be hosting a discussion of Kindred on March 1, and all are welcome to join. … [Read more...] about ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Bellevue Public Library
ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Hailey Public Library
This discussion is part of the 2021 Winter Read of Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred. The Hailey Public Library will be hosting a discussion of Kindred on February 25, and all are welcome to join. RSVP to kristin.fletcher@haileypubliclibrary.org … [Read more...] about ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Hailey Public Library
ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Stanley Community Library
This discussion is part of the 2021 Winter Read of Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred. The Stanley Community Library will be hosting a discussion of Kindred on February 23, and all are welcome to join. RSVP to Jane at stanley.id.library@gmail.com. … [Read more...] about ZOOM – Winter Read Book Discussion with the Stanley Community Library
Readings from the “Hero’s Journey” Writing Group
January 13, 2021 WATCH THE RECORDING Last fall the Library hosted a weekly virtual writing group led by local journalist and writer Tony Tekaroniake Evans. The group explored memoir and autobiographical writing through the lens of mythologist Joseph Campbell's idea of the "Hero's Journey." The group met weekly to discuss the phases of the Hero's Journey, Jungian archetypes in life stories, and to share their writing and garner feedback from one another. Several students from this group will be … [Read more...] about Readings from the “Hero’s Journey” Writing Group
