Category: Book Club

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – March 2023

Register below for a copy of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. This powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman…READ MORE

Attend one of the discussions and keep the book! Discussions will be in
April via Zoom or in person at the Main Library.

Book Club Registration

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club – February 2023

Join us in person at the Main Library or on Zoom for discussions of Shutter by Ramona Emerson. This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.

Discussions are Saturday, February 4th at 2:00 PM and Tuesday, February 21st at 6:00 PM. Ramona Emerson will be in attendance on Saturday, February 4th! Refreshments will be served!

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

February 4th at 2:00 PM
Author in Attendance
February 21st at 6:00 PM

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club – January 2023 Registration

Register for a copy of Shutter by Ramona Emerson while supplies last!

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.

register here

Discussions will be held in February via Zoom or in person at the Main Library with the author in attendance on February 4th.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Big Library Read – A Snake Falls to Earth

OFPL members of all ages can experience the Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club, with a Newbery Award-winning young adult novel.

November 2nd to November 16th

From November 2nd to 16th, booklovers with a valid library card can join thousands of others around the globe by borrowing Darcie Little Badger’s indigenous fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, from your public library. Card holders may read the ebook and audiobook for free without waiting on the Libby app or by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com.

Readers can then discuss online at https://biglibraryread.com/join-the-discussion/.

Libby by OverDrive. Download the app through your app store.

New Mexico OverDrive
-or-
Libby by OverDrive

Learn more about A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – Registration

Register below for a copy of A Place of Thin Veil by Bob Rosebrough now through September 30th. 

“The veil between the material and spiritual worlds is thinner and more permeable in Gallup, New Mexico. It is a place that is disproportionately and simultaneously wonderful and terrible. A reservation border-town with a remarkably diverse citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining community with an alcohol-soaked, violent history. It is a place of constant struggle where the forces of good and evil are joined in combat and where each resident faces their own inner struggles. This book isn’t just for Gallupians or New Mexicans; it is both a memoir and history about real people facing Goliath struggles.” 

book club registration

Zoom discussions will be held in October or in person at the Main Library with the author in attendance.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Register below for a copy of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo now through July 30th. 

Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew.

Register for book club

Zoom discussions will be held in August or in person at the Main Library. Refreshments will be served!

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club Discussion 2

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next We READ, We TALK Book Club read. Book Club discussions will be held on June 25th at 2:00 PM on Zoom or at The Octavia Fellin Public Library.

join discussion on zoom

The Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

June 25th at 2:00PM

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.

We READ, We TALK Book Club Discussion 1

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next We READ, We TALK Book Club read. Book Club discussions will be held on June 14th at 6:00 PM on Zoom or at The Octavia Fellin Public Library.

join discussion on zoom

The Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

June 14th at 6:00PM

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.

We READ, We TALK Book Club

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next Book Club read.

“As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.”

Register at https://ofpl.online/programs/#bookclub receive a free copy of All
the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood now through April 30th. *A limited number of copies available, first-come, first-serve basis.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863- 1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Book Club

OFPL’s Book Club is reading Reservation Restless by Jim Kristofic.

As a park ranger, Kristofic explores the Ganado valley, traces the paths of the Anasazi, and finds mythic experiences on sacred mountains that explain the pain and loss promised for every person who decides to love. After reconnecting with his Navajo sister and brother, Kristofic must confront his own nightmares of the Anglo society and the future it has created.

Zoom discussions will be held on:

Tuesday, November 16th
Starts at 6:00 PM with
Jim Kristofic in attendance
Saturday, November 20th
Starts at 3:00 PM.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.