The Greenhorn Valley Book Club has returned to an active group and is back on schedule. COVID caused many ups and downs and delays in the meeting schedule of the book club, but it has survived and triumphed.
Branch Manager of the Greenhorn Valley Library and leader of the Greenhorn Valley Book Club, Linda Lewis, says there are about twenty people currently active in the book club. The club meets on the last Thursday of the month from 1-3:00 p.m. at the Greenhorn Valley Library.
During the most recent meeting on February 24, the group discussed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This story tells the story of how George Otto Gey at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland, took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves in 1951 and created a human cell line that has been kept alive for decades, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping. These “immortal” cells remain “alive,” 60 years after Lack’s death.
A list and description of the books the club plans to read this year can be seen by accessing the Greenhorn Valley Library site at Greenhorn Valley | Pueblo City-County Library District (pueblolibrary.org) and entering Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022 in the search window; then clicking on the file under explore more.
The book club’s next meeting will be Thursday, March 31, and the group will be discussing The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. A novel set in the 1950s America as eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon, he must make his own decisions.
Lewis says the book club meetings are very casual. You do not need to have finished reading the book or even read the book at all. Drop-ins are welcome and encouraged. If you have been a part of the club in the past and would like to rejoin, just come by and say, “Hello.” If you are new to the area, stop by and get acquainted with this widely diverse group.