Are you the kind of reader that likes to "gobble up" page-turners? Join this laid-back book club to discuss best-sellers and meet new people over a light lunch (food will be provided).

This month's title is Playing With (Wild)fire by Laura Pritchett. This month, we have a special treat for you all and will be having a LIVE Zoom with the author during the meeting! Email Tiffany if you need a copy of the book at tosborne@telluridelibrary.org.

When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather—resulting in a sudden tangle of love and lust, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways we inhabit the burning planet.

Throughout these linked stories, we encounter a world as jarring and mesmerizing as fire itself—a literary landscape of experimental forms: An astrology report. A grant application-turned-love-story. A phone call from Mother Earth. An obituary for a wildfire. A burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and injured bear. Like one domino falling into another, each story reveals another piece of an intricate puzzle.

Playing with technique and disrupting expectation, this powerful collection captures how fire affects psyches and lives. And it shows how, sometimes, demolition can lead to renovation.

Pritchett, who lived on the edge of Colorado’s largest wildfire, has become one of the West’s major voices on environmental issues. Author of five novels, her books have received the PEN USA Award, the High Plains Book Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Willa, and several Colorado Book Awards. She is the Director of the MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University and a regular columnist and contributor to major publications in the West.

Looking to enjoy an afternoon of friendly games of mah-jongg for independent players of all levels? Join us in the Magazine Room at the Library every Wednesday from 2-4pm. Bring your 2024 card if you have one, although we have plenty of loaners if you don’t! We’ll have tables, cloths, chairs, and sets.   

Please register in advance if you'd like to join so we can make sure we have enough tables set up for everyone!