Bookish Banter

This all-genres book club for adults meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the Orangeville Library. The group is led by OPL board vice-president, Chrissy Bardo, and reads a variety of genres including historical fiction, biography, fantasy, mystery, young adult, and more. Sign up online here or contact the Library (email or 570-683-5354) for more information!

Past books include: Into Africa (McDonald & Coles); Extinction (Preston); Thanksgiving (Evanovich); Santa’s Little Yelpers (Rosenfelt); Camino Island (Grisham).

February 12th, 6pm

Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance // From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.

March 12th, 6pm

The Green Mile by Stephen King // The setting is Cold Mountain Penitentiary that contains a group of convicted killers waiting to walk “the Green Mile”, the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain’s electric chair. The guards have seen all kinds of strange and terrible things over the years but the new inmate is like nothing they have ever known.

April 9th, 6pm

Plainsong by Kent Haruf // This poignant novel weaves together the lives of a high school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelor brothers, capturing the essence of human resilience and community across four generations.

May 14th, 6pm

Nein, Nein, Nein: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl // Jerry Stahl tells his story of how he came to be on a bus trip tour of the holocaust by blending personal history with actual history and adding his own perspective mostly in the way of dark humor because, sometimes, that’s all there is.

June 11th, 6pm

The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony // Over the Rainbow Bookshops’ co-owner, Elliot truly believed all it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. His unexpected death opens the door for condo developers to convince his business partner to sell the store. The town and family come together to save their book store one way or another.