It has been a wet and hot summer so far but hard to believe that August is here already. Our new book for the Reading Between the Spines is The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. n 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a […]
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Summer is here at last or at least that is what the calendar indicates. Many feel that 2020 has been a blowout year but it has certainly made us look at our lives and how we go about doing things. I think the fact that it has slowed us down […]
This month we will read a story that will touch your heart and your soul. With the grand sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the musical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of […]
Spring is here! Good things are in the works as we are able to do more things outdoors.With longer days ahead, here is a new selection for our online bookclub . Our new selection is Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. An zealous member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, […]
Little Women remains Louisa May Alcott’s best-known work. Its charm and innocence continue to attract readers, despite the fact that the social and domestic reality portrayed is very different from contemporary domestic life. Jo March is regarded as one of the most complete, self-assured, and best-loved characters in children’s literature. […]
Happy April Fool’s Day! Originally the adult book club was to read Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It is still a popular book even in Hoopla and Overdrive so that means there aren’t electronic copies available. Then it hit me-what about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott? Countless musicals, […]
Our first online book club discussion is here! This month we are reading Wool by Hugh Howey. A suiting book for the times. When the book was picked for book club, we had no idea how strongly it would relate to the current medical, social and economic crisis unraveling around […]
The North Battleford Library Adult Book Club has gone online. How exciting for everyone! Here’s how it works: Every month we read a book. Just one book a month. Nothing that scary. We will try to announce the book at the very beginning of the month so you will have […]