The Books are Back in Town!
Ryan Ake
We're gearing up for our first Book Club at the Brew Pub meeting of the school year downtown at our favorite local pub, the Selin's Grove Brewing Co.! Our first meeting will be Wednesday, September 25th at 8PM.
This semester, we're doing things a bit differently. We're introducing the Silent Book Club to gather friends & spend time reading our own books and talking about them as a group.
That's right, there is no assigned reading.
Here's how it works:
We'll gather at the pub with whatever we brought to read. We'll order food & drinks and then settle in for some reading. We'll set a specific time period for silent reading and afterwards we'll chat! We can talk book recommendations, what we're thinking of our current picks, how great the food is, whatever we want!
Our focus is to block out a small chunk of time to do nothing but read and relax -- because let's be real, you deserve it.
You can learn more about the national Silent Book Club movement from their website, or you can send any questions you have to Ryan Ake at ake@susqu.edu or 570-372-4324.
Can't make it to the meeting or you're looking for a more conventional book club group? Check out our Virtual Book Club page on Facebook! Over there, we'll be reading Darius the Great is Not Okay for September.
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA. Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award "Heartfelt, tender, and so utterly real. I'd live in this book forever if I could." --Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian--half, his mom's side--and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they're spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city's skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush--the original Persian version of his name--and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab. Adib Khorram's brilliant debut is for anyone who's ever felt not good enough--then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay.
We're gearing up for our first Book Club at the Brew Pub meeting of the school year downtown at our favorite local pub, the Selin's Grove Brewing Co.! Our first meeting will be Wednesday, September 25th at 8PM. 
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by 
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