WRJ Book Club

WRJ Book Club
Friday, July 24 at 10:00 am 

Please join the WRJ/Sisterhood Book Club in The Temple Fishman Library for interesting discussions. On Friday August 28, we will meet at 10:00 am to discuss Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller. Amazon calls it a “…provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller…brings us this bracing, wildly entertaining piece of humorous fiction and satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on a mission of censorship to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the ‘pornographic’ books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.

What Lula doesn’t know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula’s library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. In this unforgettable work of women’s fiction, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean’s enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town’s disgraced mayor.

That’s when all the townspeople who’ve been borrowing from Lula’s library begin to reveal themselves. That’s when the showdown that’s been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town…and change it forever.”

Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. Please contact Susan Waterman at susan.waterman1@gmail.com with questions, comments, and suggestions for future book selections.