From WOOD COUNTY DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY
Spend chilly days at the library with even chillier books! Join the Bone Chilling Book Club to discuss a horror, mystery, thriller, or suspense novel every month.
Book club meetings are hybrid, held in Meeting Room A & B at the Bowling Green Library and online via Zoom.
Dates and titles are:
- January 18 – “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, “The Turn of the Screw” tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly innocent children in an isolated country house. As the tale progresses she begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. Or does she? The story is so ambivalent and eerie, such a psychological thriller, that few can agree on exactly what takes place. James masters “the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy” in this chilling Victorian classic.
- February 15 – “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
- March 15 – “Hollow Kingdom” by Kira Jane Buxton. S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle’s wild crows (i.e. “those idiots”) and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos. But when Big Jim’s eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something’s not quite right. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Humanity’s extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV. What could possibly go wrong?
