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Try out our Friends Book Groups!

In 2024, the Friends added a new member benefit - Friends-only book groups! The afternoon and evening book groups meet every other month. You don't need to register, just show up! Copies of the books are held at Delaware, Orange and Liberty branches specifically for our groups.

Do you want to try it out but want to bring a non-Friend friend? (Tongue twister time!) Feel free! Non-members can attend one book club session for free, and then join the Friends of DCDL if they want to continue to participate.

MARCH AFTERNOON BOOK GROUP

Tuesday, March 24th @ 2PM at the Powell Chamber Office

Choose Your Own Narrative Nonfiction Book

Narrative nonfiction is a genre that tells true, thoroughly researched stories using the immersive, dramatic techniques of fiction writing.  It blends factual accuracy with narrative arcs—including characters, scenes, and dialogue—to entertain while informing. Common types include memoirs, biographies, literary journalism, and true crime.

Key characteristics and elements include:
  • Narrative Arc: Uses traditional story structures (rising action, climax, resolution).
  • Immersive Detail: Employs vivid descriptions, character development, and dialogue to bring real events to life.
  • Deep Research: Relies on interviews, journals, and historical records to ensure accuracy.
  • Focus: Unlike traditional nonfiction, it aims to evoke emotion and create a reading experience similar to reading a novel. 
Well-known examples include Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Michelle McNamara’s I'll Be Gone in the Dark.  For a list of other recommendations from Vicky, click here.

FEBRUARY EVENING BOOK GROUP

Yellow Face by R. F. Kuang

Tuesday, April 28th @ 6:30pm at Molly Woos (1500 Polaris Parkway, Suite 220, Columbus, OH 43240)

About the Book

Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls?, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse, stealing Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

About the Author

Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History, among others. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.

Vicky Schmarr - Afternoon Book Group Facilitator

Joy Kelch - Evening Book Group Facilitator

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