Monday, March 3, 5:30-7:30 pm,
Central Library Board Room
(moved from the previously scheduled Kress Family Branch Library)
Reading Between the Spines, the members-only book club of the Friends of Brown County Library, is hosting a discussion of the 2024 Booker Prize winning book Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
Spots are first come, first served. As always, the Friends will supply the book for free. Instructions for book pick up will be emailed to you after sign up.
To sign up for Monday, March 3, 5:30-7:30, click on this link: https://signup.com/go/isoqtUq
What thebookerprize.com has to say about Orbital:
“Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons. taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.”
“Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?
Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons. taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.”
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