In Their Own Words

A new book club at our Cold Spring Branch seeks to read and discuss diverse books by diverse authors.

In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words meets at 6:30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month at our Cold Spring Branch. Each month, we discuss a book by an author that comes from the same diverse group represented in the book’s story. The book club is inspired by Corinne Duyvis’ #OwnVoices idea in YA literature.

All of our book clubs operate on a drop-in basis. You are not obligated to sign up for a certain period of time. You can come when there is a particular book you are interested in, or you can come every month.

January Meeting

Tuesday, Jan. 7
6:30 – 7:30 pm
Cold Spring Branch

January’s book is Run by Kody Keplinger. In addition to the copies available in our collection, numerous copies are available at our Cold Spring Branch. Please contact Tori Story, the branch’s adult/teen services programmer, at 859-781-6166 ext. 15 or TStory@cc-pl.org to reserve a copy.

About the Book

Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten and never broken any of her parents’ overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter—protect her from what, Agnes isn’t quite sure.

Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. And it’s the sort of friendship that runs truer and deeper than anything else.

So when Bo shows up in the middle of the night, with police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn’t hesitate to take off with her. But running away and not getting caught will require stealing a car, tracking down Bo’s dad, staying ahead of the authorities and—worst of all—confronting some ugly secrets.

February Meeting

Tuesday, Feb. 4
6:30 – 7:30 pm
Cold Spring Branch

February’s book is The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. In addition to the copies available in our collection, numerous copies are available at our Cold Spring Branch. Please contact Tori Story, the branch’s adult/teen programmer, at 859-781-6166 ext. 15 or TStory@cc-pl.org to reserve a copy.

About the Book

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker’s debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.

Upcoming Book Selections

• March
  • Dreadnought by April Daniels
• April
  • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• May
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• June
  • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Book Clubs

We have numerous book clubs to choose from! Visit the link below to see what each of our book clubs are reading January-June 2020.

Book Clubs

 

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