The Chilkat Valley News and The Bookstore are launching a new community book club this February.
The group will meet on the last Sunday of each month and follow a reading list that spans memoir, history, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. The goal is steady, communal reading and conversation that welcomes people who read carefully, or intermittently.
The kickoff meeting is set for Sunday, Feb. 22, with a discussion focused on Rough Crossing by 1994 Haines high school graduate Rosemary McGuire.
Here’s what the rest of the year looks like:
March: Open Veins of Latin America — Eduardo Galeano
April: G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun, Rivers in My Veins — Xʼunei Lance Twitchell and Kara Briggs
May: House of Day, House of Night — Olga Tokarczuk
June: Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman
July: The Tao of Raven — Ernestine Hayes
August: Street of Eternal Happiness — Rob Schmitz
September: By the Fire We Carry — Rebecca Nagle
October: Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones
November: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster — Rebecca Solnit
December: Reader’s choice.
Join us for all of them, or any that interest you. Copies of each month’s selections will be available through The Bookstore beginning Feb. 4. Send a note to e[email protected] with questions.