It’s a great cult-ure

Remember that time you were 14 and ran away to join a cult and took drugs in the desert and fell in love with a girl who had fallen in love with Charles Manson? Yeah, this coming-of-age bestseller is just like that. Join us tonight, Tuesday 4/25 at 7:30 pm at Napper Tandy’s to discuss “The Girls” by Emma Cline.

And if you can’t come tonight, join us on Tuesday 5/23 at 7:30 pm for “Galore” by Michael Crummey. This historical fiction is set in exotic Newfoundland, and has elements of magical realism, family feud drama, and Canadian folklore. Let’s just say – it’s a whale of a tale! (sorry, I had to go there) Copies of the book and audiobook are available to pick up at the Reference Desk, and the audiobook is also available instantly through hoopla digital. Fingers crossed that May will be warmer and we can sit on the back deck!

There’s a fly on the wall of Titles on Tap

We’re meeting at Napper Tandy’s tonight 4/26 at 7:30 pm to discuss Volumes 1 and 2 of the new Ms. Marvel, “No Normal” and Generation Why.” A Pakistani-American Muslim teenage girl in Jersey City as Ms Marvel – does it work? We’d love to hear your thoughts about these graphic novels? Meet us in the left-hand-side bar at Napper Tandy’s in Norwood.

And in May, there will be a fly on the wall of Titles on Tap. We’ll be reading “Jacob’s Folly” by Rebecca Miller, which involves an 18th-century Jewish merchant in Paris named Jacob Cerf. Our Jacob is reincarnated as a fly in the 21st-century Long Island suburbs…yup, a fly, as in buzz buzz. In Miller’s book of historical fiction and magical realism, even a tiny insect can influence people’s lives, and thanks to the new Jacob, the lives of a volunteer fireman and a young Orthodox Jewish woman will never be the same.

Copies are available at Reference, so pick one up and join us Tuesday May 24 at 7:30 pm!