Book Club and Other Upcoming Events
This is a reminder to all our neighbors of the open invitation to join the PP@L Book Club.
The Book Club meets in the Library on the Fourth Floor at 7:00 PM on the second Tuesday of every month. The discussions are informal and informative—and a lot of fun!
The reading schedule through the end of the year is below. You may notice the reading list of the Mercantile Library’s First Wednesday book group. This curated selection leads to an interesting mix of fiction and non-fiction, current and classics.
| Date | Book |
| October 12 | Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
· 336 pages · Young adult fiction that is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse. |
| November 9 | Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
· 338 pages · This “beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby“: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other. |
| December 14 | My Antonia by Willa Cather
· 144 pages · An autobiographical novel about the settling of Nebraska written in lyrical prose that offers a view of the life of immigrants and the natural beauty of the Great Plains. |
If you would like more information, please contact Donna Becker (dbecker2482@gmail.com) or Marcia Hartsock (marciahartsock@gmail.com).
OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS
- Short Story Discussion is on Wednesday at 6:30 PM in the library
2. Dominoes is on Wednesday at 7:30 PM on the roof (weather permitting)
3. Happy Hour is on Friday at 6 PM on the roof or in the library (depending on weather)
BYOB and an appetizer to share
If you have more ideas for social activities, please contact Judy Hearn, the chair of the Social Committee, at jhearnohio@aol.com
As always, we encourage everyone to please wear a mask when enjoying indoor common spaces, even if vaccinated.
For the Board of Directors,
Sheryl