Events

Join us for our April adult book discussions of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger on Monday, April 6 at 6:30pm and Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30am. 

Genre: Adventure fiction/Dystopian fiction, 336 pages

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician setting sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. An endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, he seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. After encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, he eventually lands to find an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, a crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. As his guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his wake.

Copies are available one month prior to discussion.

Our spring series will be all about important anniversaries in American History! Our speakers will discuss books about events during 1776, 1826, 1876, 1926, and 1976 on April 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29 at 12:10pm.

April 1: Tim McCorry reviews Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters by Edward Larson

April 8: Richard Beatty reviews Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator by Christopher Densmore

April 15: Ron Chrzanowski reviews The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season that Defined the American West by Chris Wimmer

April 22: Peter Wisbey reviews Sesqui!: Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World's Fair of 1926 by Thomas H. Keels

April 29: Jason Smith reviews The American Bicentennial: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuel