Love to talk about books? Join us for Books Sandwiched In, now at the Larry R. Jackson Branch Library.  The group meets at Jackson Branch Library Meeting Room on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:15 p.m.  Registration for this in-person event is required and seating is limited to 20 people to allow space for social distancing. 

Our November title is Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado.

A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

Print copies WILL NOT be available for sale for the book discussion. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories is available for check out in print and in digital format through the following avenues: 

(H)  Ebooks and/or eaudiobooks are available for digital checkout through our Hoopla service: https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/library/using-the-library/resources/ebooks-more/ebooks/. A library card and PIN is needed to access Hoopla for free.

(O)  Some titles are also available for digital checkout through our OverDrive service and its Libby app: https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/library/using-the-library/resources/ebooks-more/ebooks/.  A library card and PIN is needed to access OverDrive/Libby for free.

 (P)  Some titles are also available in print for checkout. You can reserve a copy through our Polk County Library Cooperative (PCLC) online catalog: https://pclc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/lakeland. A library card and PIN is needed to reserve PCLC materials for free.

For more information, call Brenda J. Patterson at 863-834-4276 or send e-mail to Brenda.Patterson@lakelandgov.net.