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Lifelong Readers Book Club
The Lifelong Readers Book Club is a program of the Literacy Program, encouraging continued growth in reading and writing. The book club meets the fourth Thursday of the month, 5:30-6:30 pm, at the Colusa Branch’s Morse room. Everyone is encouraged to read (or reread!) the month’s selection and join in our discussion.
Jan. 26, 2023: The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
"One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times." (Amazon.com)
This book is available for check out at the library and digitally through Libby.
Upcoming Selections
- Feb. 23, 2023: Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World (2022) Bolu Babalolo
- March 23, 2023: Into the Beautiful North: A Novel (2010) Luis Alberto Urrea
- April 27, 2023: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (2022) Michelle Obama
- May 25, 2023: Nothing to See Here (2022) Kevin Wilson
- June 22, 2023: Earth Abides (1949) George R. Stewart
- July 27, 2023: The Commitments (1989) Roddy Doyle
- Aug. 24, 2023: The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022) Kim Stanley Robinson
- Sept. 28, 2023: The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood
- Oct. 26, 2023: The Paris Library: A Novel (2022) Janet Skeslien Charles
- Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023: The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank
Past Selections
- Nov. 22, 2022: Ishmael (1995) Daniel Quinn
- Oct. 25, 2022: They Called Us Enemy (2019) George Takei
- Sept. 27, 2022: The Midnight Library: A Novel (2020) Matt Haig
- Aug. 23, 2022: The 1619 Project (2021) Nikole Hannah-Jones, et.al.
- July 26, 2022: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2019) Trevor Noah
- June 28, 2022: Hamnet (2020) Maggie O'Farrell
- May 24, 2022: True Grit (1968) Charles Portis
- April 26, 2022: The Great Gatsby (1922) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- March 22, 2022: Night (1956) Elie Wiesel
- Feb. 22, 2022: Dead Irish (1989) John Lescroart