Join us for the Mostly Lesbian Books Club on the third Monday of each month at 6:30pm at the Norristown Public Library. All are welcome to attend this book club focusing on books with lesbian themes, characters, or authors. You can borrow copies of the book through the library or get it elsewhere. The group will decides on titles together two months ahead. Questions? Email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org or call 610-278-5100 x400.
March 2024: The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
April 2024: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
May 2024: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
June 2024: Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
Monday, July 15, 2024 at 6:30-7:30pm: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness. In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother’s abandoned greatness.
Monday, August 19, 2024 at 6:30-7:30pm: The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe and an esteemed cohort of collaborating writers bring to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, exploring how different threads of liberation — queerness, race, gender plurality and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape … and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.
Monday, September 16, 2024 at 6:30-7:30pm: TBD