Edible Island: food • culture • community Cookie Swap & Secret Tree – a special holiday event Celebrate the season and share your family's traditions! Bring two dozen cookies to swap. Stay for a secret tree lighting—you'll have to come to find out where—and holiday songs. To participate in the tree lighting, arrive at the … Continue reading "Edible Island: Cookie Swap & Secret Tree"
Our December title is Heartburn by Nora Ephron. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month, except December to accommodate holiday plans, at 6:30pm. Readers can choose to participate either in person at SPL or online via Zoom. Contact SPL at the phone or email below to RSVP and/or to join the … Continue reading "Food & Fiction: Heartburn"
Reader's Choice: Ellen Shockro How to Read a Book by Monica Wood MILS catalog record “Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: How to Read a Book"
Reader's Choice: Kendra Chubbuck The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See MILS catalog record “Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their villages’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: The Island of Sea Women"
Reader's Choice: Anneli Sundqvist Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley MaineCat catalog record (SPL copy on order) “In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley ‘makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant’ (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture ‘the itch of the city, love between parents … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"
