CURRENT BPL BOOK CLUBS
 
 
The Library offers a variety of book clubs to cover many genres. You can meet new people and expand your literary interests! We provide the book at each meeting or you can ask for it from the Customer Service Desk. All of our clubs work on a drop-in basis, and you are welcome to come even if you didn't finish (or start!) your title. More info is below.
 
  
 
ADULT BOOK CLUBS
 
Noon Book Club
Discussion on August 5 at 12PM
This group meets the first Wednesday of the month in the Library. Pick up a copy of the book at the Customer Service Desk. Supplies are limited.
 
 
 
The Astral Library (Standard Edition) by Kate Quinn
The Astral Library
by Kate Quinn

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.Alexandria Alix Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy--Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself?

Kids' Books for Adults Book Club
July 21 at 7PM 
This group meets the third Tuesday of the month via Zoom. If you need a copy of the book, ask at the Customer Service Desk. Supplies are limited.
 
Please note for July there is not a specific book. Instead, bring two picture books (one you loved as a kid, one you discovered as an adult) for show and tell.

Join Zoom Meeting by computer:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83580667298?pwd=o9nAXi9lHltfF3GJK2zZUXbKkQ2xlF.1
Or by phone: 1-669-900-6833
Meeting ID 835 8066 7298
Email aangell@ci.benicia.ca.us for the passcode.
 

Cook the Book Book Club
July 21 at 12PM <Note the one week earlier date, just for the July meeting.>
This group usually meets the fourth Tuesday of the month in the Library. Members cook a dish based on the theme or from an assigned cookbook and come discuss what they think about the dish. Member often bring food from their cookbook to share, and it ends up being a big potluck! Email Patrice (psartor@ci.benicia.ca.us) with questions.
 
THEME: For this theme (a member suggestion by Yolanda), it's all about corn. As long as your dish has corn of some type in it, that counts. Many of the cookbooks in the Library have a recipe with corn in them, though they might be challenging to find. I encourage you to browse the stacks, particularly in the vegetable cooking section, to find something that speaks to you. Have fun!

 
Mystery Book Club
July 23 at 7PM
This group meets the fourth Thursday of the month in the Library. Pick up a copy of the book at the Customer Service Desk. Supplies are limited.
 
 
 
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
When the Stars Go Dark
by Paula McLain

Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage girl has gone missing. Anna is in no condition to become involved with the search--until a childhood friend, now the village sheriff, pleads for her help--