To celebrate Women’s History Month, tonight's discussion will focus on our favorite women authors. Classics to new first time authors, from Fiction or Mysteries, True Crime or Thrillers – women are everywhere. We’re going to celebrate Women’s...
Let's Talk Books
Let's Talk Books is a series of casual conversations about books where we meet to share descriptions of our favorite reads. Join us for your favorite genres to chat with like-minded readers. Bring a couple of recommendations to share or just show up to hear what everyone else loves!
Upcoming events
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
Whether it is an recognizable adaptation or a complicated new treatment that has new characters or a new setting, reading a reimagined story you already know can be a lot of fun. Seeing well known characters act in new ways, or stories told from a...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
April is Neurodiversity Awareness Month, so tonight's discussion will focus on fiction with a neurodivergent characters. You can find books in both the Adult and Young Adult fiction collections contain. Gatherr a few of your favorites and join...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate tonight we'll be talking Poetry. Poetry is a literary artform in which writers use concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. rhythms, or imagry to tell a story or invoke emotions in the reader...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
To celebrate Pride Month, tonight's discussion will focus on fiction with LGBTQUI+ characters. Both the Adult and Young Adult fiction collections contain many great LGBT books. Cheek out these lists for some suggestions: https://bookriot.com/...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
The Iowa Writers Workshop began at the University of Iowa in 1936 and has produced many well known writers. In the last 80 years there are hundreds of published works by graduates of the Workshop in a wide range of genre. Pick some of your favorites...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes. Groups that meet online (like Let's Talk Books) are all the rage, especially with celebrities. From Oprah's almost 30 year old book club, to Reese Witherspoon, Emma Watson, Sara Jessica Parker, or...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 7:00pm
Zoom
Reading a book that has been translated from its original langue gives the reader a way to experience places we may never go and introduce us to stories, cultural perspectives, traditions, and styles of storytelling that are new and unique. Check...