What we’re about
A Book Club based in Chattanooga and the surrounding areas.
Our goal is to share our love of books, meet like minded book lovers, create fruitful friendships and community with our love of books.
One book a month with the notion of meeting up on the last Saturday of each month to share thoughts (negative or positive) about the month's book. New books will be posted on the next Tuesday after the meeting.
The chosen book will not always be suited for younger children, so I implore you to decide for yourself if you want to participate for these respective month.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- January 2025 Book: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste NgThe Meeting House, Chattanooga, TN
DISCORD DISCUSSION & AUDIOBOOK: HERE
You must sign up for the discord server before you can download the audiobook, participate in forum discussions, or participate in audible giveaways. Direct message me for instructions on how to join the server.Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
