It’s difficult to meet in person right now, but SPL has thought of a way to help keep your mind active while we’re all social distancing: an at-home Book Club! Register for a spot (eight spots are open each month), and the next time you can stop by the library, you’ll be given a book and packet to keep. You can then join in via the SPL Adult Book Club on the library’s Facebook and discuss it with us from the comfort of your own home! This month our discussion will be open February 16-17. Facebook not your thing? Fill out the book review sheet in your Book Club packet and we’ll display it at the library so others can decide if they’d like to read the book. Contact the library online or give us a call to register. Book Club packets can be picked up at the front desk or via contactless curbside service.
This month’s book is My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. “Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her ‘missing’ boyfriend... Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her,” (My Sister, the Serial Killer, 2019). Register for a spot in the book club and pick up your free copy today!