Join our 2020 Summer Reading Challenge edition Virtual Bookgroup to discuss "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden, a retelling of the Russian folktale "Vasilisa the Beautiful."
The 2020 Summer Reading Challenge, "Imagine Your Story," highlights fantasy and folklore this summer. Join us to discuss The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, a retelling of the Russian folktale "Vasilisa the Beautiful." Publishers Weekly says, "Stunning . . . will enchant readers from the first page. . . . with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate.”
Available as an e-book or e-audiobook from OverDrive and available in print from SJCPL.
Four meetings:
June 8: Pages 1-92 (finish chapter 10)
June 15: Pages 93-178 (finish chapter 16)
June 22: Pages 179-258 (finish Part 2)
June 29: Pages 259-end (Part 3)--Author Katherine Arden will join us to discuss the book!
Google Meet link for all meetings: https://meet.google.com/foc-wkfn-snu
