Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2023 season! We will enjoy celebrated classics, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!
The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM on Zoom.
To RSVP for this event use this link: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub
Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com), through LINK+ (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!
About August's read: "Ana is a brilliant, headstrong, and compassionate mayor of a small city, with a lovely husband, daughter, and granddaughter. Yet there has been a lingering piece of her life missing -- a thread of happiness she hasn't been able to pull on for most of her life. Zeno, a lifelong bachelor, bookstore owner, intrepid traveler, and theoretical physicist determined to figure out how to turn back time. Handsome, clever, and kind, he is often questioned about his failure to "settle down." Over the years, they have woven together an impossible and inexhaustible love. Their paths constantly intertwining, from a chance meeting on a boat to clumsily bumping into each other in the city they share. Eventually keeping in touch by letters and late-night phone calls across the world.
A luxuriously illustrated love story full of heart, comedy and universal truths, published in English for the first time. Written and illustrated by Spanish cartoonist Jordi Lefebre, co-creator and artist of the graphic novel series Glorious Summers, as well as La Mondaine, and Lydia."
GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2023 SCHEDULE
JANUARY: Castaways by Laura Pérez & Pablo Monforte
FEBRUARY: The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
MARCH: Lore Olympus Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe
APRIL: Tunnels by Rutu Modan
MAY: It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth by Zoe Thorogood
JUNE: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
JULY: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
AUGUST: Always Never by Jordi Lafebre
SEPTEMBER: Salamandre by I.N.J. Culbard
OCTOBER: Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto
NOVEMBER: Keeping Two by Jordan Crane
DECEMBER: Bubble by Jordan Morris