Local library adds book club for ‘young at heart’
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Staff report
Brandon Community Library’s new book club is still for adults, but this one is for grown-ups who like teen fiction.
Siouxland Libraries has started several Young @ Heart book clubs at branches in Minnehaha County, and Brandon’s will hold its first meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Young adult book guru Jessica Haugo, who worked part-time at the Brandon branch before transferring to Sioux Falls in October, is heading the club.
“There are a variety of genres within young adult; there’s something for everybody. This book club will be a sampler of some different types,” Haugo said.
For the first selection, Young@Heart will read and discuss Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, a sci-fi twist on the classic fairytale Cinderella. Cinder was a New York Times bestseller and the first book in The Lunar Chronicles series.
“Young adult books do a great job of portraying real life, and young adult authors are excellent at conveying emotions, which is good for discussion,” Haugo said. “I am excited for the opportunity to see what personality this book club develops and to hear the different conversations the group will have.”
The Young @ Heart Book Club will meet on the third Tuesday of each month at the Brandon Community Library, 305 S. Splitrock Blvd.
The library’s first reading group, the Brandon Book Club, meets 10:30-11:30 a.m. the first Thursday of each month at the library.
Head librarian Sharon Hall started the club, which has explored fiction and nonfiction on topics ranging from raising buffalo to the suspense of a doomed airline flight and the whimsy and wonder of a blind girl growing up in France during German occupation.
The Brandon Book Club will hold its next meeting from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, to discuss Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
Library patrons may reserve a book for either book club by calling the Brandon Community Library at 605-582-2390 or emailing lbrandonstaff@siouxfalls.org.
Both book clubs currently have openings. For more information on Young @ Heart, contact Haugo at jhaugo@siouxfalls.org.
