We met last night and had a good discussion about Same Kind of Different as Me at Tonya's home. We also planned out most of the rest of the year- we have a few months that we are still making final decisions on. You can now see what we have coming up on the left side of our blog page. I also added some more of your recommendations to our list on the right of the blog page. Please let me know if you have more recommendations you want to add!
Next month, March 21st we will be meeting at Dlorah's home and discussing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. We were able to get 10 copies through Book Buzz. They are at the Farmington library now and ready to be checked out! You just need to go into the library with your library card (or driver's license) and ask for a copy of the book and let them know it is being held for you as a BOOK BUZZ book for the Oak Lane Book Club. (the library has a special shelf in the back where they keep these books for us!) Now, if you haven't used book buzz before, let me tell you a few things- the book will have a yellow paper on it with a special due date (we usually will have close to 6-8weeks to check out the books)- DO NOT REMOVE this paper. PLEASE- return the book by the due date!!! If we don't, they will not let us keep using the book buzz program. If you have questions or concerns about it - please call me or come in when I am at work (Mondays 12:30-5, Tuesdays 10-12:30, and Wednesdays 12:30-9.)
Now, for some of the books coming up, we will get them through Book Buzz (Half Broke Horses, Left to Tell, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
I am trying to get Book Buzz to purchase the title My Grandfather's Blessings for us- I will let you know what they say. If they don't we may need to buy a few copies to pass around as the library only has one copy right now (I have it checked out and will try to get it returned soon!)
For those that we can't get through Book Buzz, you will need to either get them on your own through the library or purchase it. Did you know you could put holds on books and then suspend the hold? That way, you can put the books for the rest of the year on hold and then not get the books until you need them. If you don't know how to do this, let me know and I can show you! Please go ahead and put a hold on The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright now so you will have time to get it and read it for April's book club- it is popular and gets checked out often so placing a hold now will save you stress later on!
OK- this is too long already- go read something worthwhile!
💜-Sara
