Bookish Encounters

For the Month of May we will be reading Rebecca Makkai's "I have Some Questions for You". Description:

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsively enjoyable work and a literary triumph.

You can find it in multiple forms from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Have-Some-Questions-You-Novel/dp/0593490169/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oF8HyGdtOsxHKJsR2QQBCTNL_5ms1rv75bvmFSPylXX19sR70p0Kwm-eklLBsKQVgzkWDk0Q0x85L7lYcRgoOztX74ny7nJRe5EW7Q9WNMX6Y21hwzcrlwJHKDwG-LX2OyPNjeyKZY4P04_o2UNwnA7rz7GbetsxzhUeCmYuiex8GoJLyjOYxs57PyyT1mSX-onOmuZ_aGH7lVyUWU5qSQ.C63p6DHR8Q1_fs2K6fATIdhzc9uZDD1pCw0piUeBP8Q&qid=1714014257&sr=8-1

Mysterious Galaxy has it on their shelf:
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/search/site/i%20have%20some%20question%20for%20you

The San Diego Public Library has it in multiple forms:
https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=i%20have%20some%20questions%20for%20you&searchType=title

Hope to See You There!

Due to my complete inability to get my shit together, I am making a recurring event for Comic Book Club.

Books will be announced in comments. We are currently listing 3-4 suggested books a month. READ WHAT YOU HAVE TIME FOR AND WHAT INTERESTS YOU! Don't be a no-show if you didn't read anything. Odds are good that I didn't either! We're happy to have you join the conversation regardless.

CBC is co-ed and all ages, so feel free to bring anyone who may be interested in the subject matter. However, we do read adult books, so use your best judgement if inviting youngins.

All events are virtual. I love not having to find locations and parking. Comic Book Club is on the 4th Tuesday of the month, via zoom. Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84258043455?pwd=YndkODNUK09DQXdIMnlWUzBkdFMzQT09

I pick books for the next year in October-December from our Goodreads list. Please vote for books via this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/199258.Comic_Book_Club_Recommendations_2024_Revision_MEMBERS_ONLY
You can vote for books already on the list or add other things. My only request is you don't add anything we've already read. You can see the complete list of over 200 books we've read at https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AH7BMWV5TF7LIYTIVOISDXXK3Z4A/XD4DYUA0MI0F?type=explore&ref=idea_cp_vl_ov_d

NOTE FOR EVERYONE: I DO NOT GET NOTIFICATIONS OF MESSAGES ON EVENTS. IF YOU NEED TO CONTACT ME FOR ANY REASON, PLEASE SEND ME A DIRECT MESSAGE OR EMAIL!

For the month of June we will be reading "Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone" by Benjamin Stevenson. Description:
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.
Have I killed someone? Yes. I have.
Who was it?
Let’s get started.
EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE
My brother
My stepsister
My wife
My father
My mother
My sister-in-law
My uncle
My stepfather
My aunt
Me

You can find it in multiple forms from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Family-Has-Killed-Someone/dp/0063279037/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YmpUzxYM-44lk1aAbngmQNQXqRGjK7ZRLJaCbHhPcl-khmSMB_fs7eEVUqf_380xaPllKkqKad3Oph0MVXLdtJj98qY__O_5K-eFCcg45vVfDG1FzRG_ZJllA_jmPp7FerUFPM_GXSGkbNyXLu3y94--xObAgeAhTu8xSLyZj6J3o24C6ipzlwK_lNQbi150q1ETl7QpKgt4jHrAq0O3SJBVe10us3ZjEV5EEQBqbGE.uoGJ4lq5RI4dp2pmHISHaaa73YWtkP7C1n8hdwQLA6w&qid=1714014762&sr=8-1

Mysterious Galaxy has it on their shelves: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/search/site/everyone%20in%20my%20family%20has%20killed%20someone

San Diego Public library has it:
https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1712089

Hope to see you there!