Between the Covers Winter 2020 “Interior with a Woman Reading” by Carl Holsøe A Winter Evening for Bookclubs Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 Page 1 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Winter 2020 Boulder’s Bookclub Bestsellers Girl, Woman, Other Killing Commendatore by Bernardine Evaristo by Haruki Murakami Sparklingly witty and filled with When a portrait painter is emotion, centering voices we abandoned by his wife, he often see othered, and written secludes himself in the home in an innovative form that of a famous artist. One day, he borrows technique from discovers a previously unseen poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a painting and unintentionally polyphonic and richly textured opens a circle of mysterious social novel that reminds us of circumstances, and he must all that connects, even in times undertake a perilous journey when we are encouraged into a netherworld that only to be split apart. F Murakami could conjure. F The Dutch House Such a Fun Age by Ann Patchett by Kiley Reid The Dutch House tells a richly I was delighted by the moving story that explores the charming characters and well- indelible bond between two intentioned awkwardness in siblings, the house of their Reid’s debut! She masterfully childhood, and a past that will handles complex human not let them go. Patchett digs interactions where right and deeply into questions of wrong are not clear-cut, and inheritance, love and everyone is trying to do what forgiveness, of how we want to they perceive to be the right see ourselves and of thing. F H who we really are. ~Genevieve F H Exhalation Classic Krakauer by Ted Chiang by Jon Krakauer Welcome to modern sci-fi. Ted Bringing together work Chiang’s nuanced portrayals originally published in such of concepts like parallel worlds, magazines as The New time travel, and artificial Yorker, Outside, and intelligence will encourage you Smithsonian, and spanning an to consider these popular topics extraordinary range of subjects in a new light. The titular story and locations, these ten is particularly original, even gripping essays show why Jon breathtaking. Krakauer is considered a ~Trevor standard-bearer of modern F H NF Paperback avail. 6/30 journalism. The Body Good and Mad by Bill Bryson by Rebecca Traister Bill Bryson guides us through Traister tracks the history of the human body — how it female anger as political fuel. functions, its remarkable ability She deconstructs society’s to heal itself, and the ways it condemnation of female can fail. Full of extraordinary emotion and the impact of and irresistible Bryson-esque their resulting repercussions. anecdotes, The Body will lead Good and Mad offers a glimpse you to a deeper understanding into the galvanizing force of of the miracle that is life in women’s collective anger, general and you in which, when harnessed, particular. NF H can change history. NF Page 2 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Winter 2020 Upcoming Events for Bookclubs Janelle Shane TaraShea Nesbit February 19th, 7:30pm, $5 March 16th, 7:30pm, $5 How smart is AI really, and Beheld tells the story of a how does it solve problems? stranger’s arrival in the You Look Like a Thing and I fledgling colony of Plymouth, Love You is a smart, often Massachusetts — and a crime hilarious introduction to the that shakes the divided most interesting science of community to its core. It is also our time, and shows how an intimate portrait of love, these programs learn, fail, motherhood, and friendship and adapt — and how they that asks: Whose stories get reflect the best and told? worst of humanity. NF H On Shelves 3/17 F H Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor Margaret Andersen March 30th, 7:30pm, $23.96 April 7th, 7:30pm, $5 Tickets at The reality of racial inequality FinkCranorBBS.eventbrite.com and injustice is glaring, and we In the town of Night Vale, a need a starting point that can faceless old woman secretly take us inside the lives in everyone’s home, but conversations and debates. no one knows where she came Getting Smart about Race from. Her history will be examines race from all angles revealed in The Faceless Old and leaves us with a positive Woman Who Secretly Lives in outlook on why the American Your Home. conversation needs to On Shelves 3/24 F H get serious about race. NF H Ingrid Newkirk John Scalzi April 14th at 7:30pm, $5 April 16th at 7:30pm, $5 In the last few decades, a In The Last Emperox, the wealth of new information has collapse of the interstellar emerged about how intelligent pathway between the planets and aware animals are. has accelerated. Emperox Animalkind is a fascinating Grayland II has wrested control study of why our fellow living of her empire from those who beings deserve respect, and deny the reality of this collapse. moreover, the steps readers Will Grayland become the can take to put this new savior of her civilization or the understanding into last emperox? action. NF H On Shelves 4/14 F H Rick McIntyre Stephen Graham Jones th st April 29 , 7:30pm, $5 May 21 at 7:30pm, $5 Yellowstone National Park was Blending horror and a dramatic once home to an abundance of narrative with sharp social wild wolves — but park rangers commentary, The Only Good killed the last of their kind in Indians follows four American the 1920s. The Rise of Wolf 8 Indian men after a disturbing tells the astonishing true story event from their youth puts of one of the first wolves to them in a struggle for their roam Yellowstone in more than lives. It is a novel of revenge, 60 years, and it will transform cultural identity, and the cost of our view of wolves breaking from tradition. forever. NF H On Shelves 5/19 F H Page 3 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Winter 2020 Our Booksellers Recommend... The Ruin of Kings A Boy and His Dog at the End by Jenn Lyons of the World by C.A. Fletcher I started The Ruin of Kings on a long flight, and I didn't even This story had my heart notice the 8 hours, because I pounding nonstop. Fletcher's was so involved in the writing fast tracks your story. Epic and complex world attachment to Griz, the main building, dynamic and character, and each moment of terrifying characters, political his struggle in this well- intrigue and blood feuds that imagined post-apocalyptic have lasted centuries … Very, world wrenches your heart into very satisfying! your gut. F F ~Liesl ~Lara There Once Lived A Woman Who Small Great Things Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Jodi Picoult by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya In this book, Picoult looks at Ghosts from WWII, a journey to racism and challenges the the afterlife, cabbage patch reader’s knowledge and babies, and the vodka fueled understanding of both sides of miracles of holy men are a few the spectrum. Small Great of the oddities among many Things gives fair treatment to that populate these scary fairy both sides; while sometimes tales. Much like the characters, infuriating, it’s also great I felt lost, yet entranced, by the because it truly lets us readers strange circumstances. make our own judgments. F F ~Nathaniel ~Katie One Day in December Mouthful of Birds by Josie Silver by Samanta Schweblin One wintery day in London, In this surrealistic collection of Laurie spots Jack at a bus stop stories, brides are abandoned and feels an instant connection at a highway rest stop, a with him. A year later, she teenage girl only eats live birds, meets her best friend's new and a murdered wife’s body is boyfriend...and it's Jack. What considered high art. Schweblin follows next is a decade long examines the intersection of tale of friendship, heartbreak, violence, gender and art in and love that will warm your these dreamlike tales that heart. constantly surprise us. ~Catrin F . ~Arsen F The Ninth House The Whisper Network by Leigh Bardugo by Chandler Baker Alex Stern is admitted to Yale in This book taps into all the order to help prevent ghosts frustrations women face in from interfering with the rituals their personal and professional performed by campus secret lives, and turns them into one societies, but things quickly go hell of an empowerment wrong when the person who is fantasy. It addresses the power supposed to train her goes dynamic between white women missing. Ninth House features a and women of color, and how great cast of characters and a we can all help each other out. wonderfully flawed ~Lara protagonist. ~Hannah F H Paperback avail. 6/9 F H Page 4 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Winter 2020 Our Booksellers Recommend... Deep Creek Wild Words by Pam Houston by Nicole Gulotta Deep Creek is Pam Houston’s Wild Words is about the memoir of life on her ranch in seasons in a writer’s life, the Colorado high country. through ups and downs, and Lucky to escape her violent is so accurate and heartfelt childhood, Houston found a that at one point I sat up and place where she can be with said, “She’s describing me!” herself and her animals. This book is about honoring However, that quiet has led to each season in the writing the realization that there is no life, and looking at how to haven from the dangers of move forward. climate change. ~Arsen NF ~Breanna NF Barracoon Revolution in Rojava by Zora Neale Hurston by Michael Knapp, Ercan Ayboga, Hurston provides commentary & Anja Flach alongside a vivid portrait of I was reading this, feeling so Cudjo Lewis, a man devastated much hope for the future of by slavery, but no longer Rojava, when Turkey started enslaved.