Book Clubs
Join the Discussion
Book Talk meets monthly on the last Monday of the month at 10:00 am.
This group gathers in the library's meeting room for discussion. Everyone welcome.
Join us in our love of books!
We’ll provide a reading suggestion for each month. You pick your own book to read.
Monthly Reading Themes for 2025
January: Beaches/Ocean
February: War
March: Biography
April: Different Culture
May: Historical
June: All read the same title
July: Read the Book From Your Favorite Movie
August: Font on the Cover is a Primary Color
September: Direction in the Title
October: Audiobook
November: Iowa Setting
December: Told in Verse
Past Book Club selections can be found here.
Oelwein Reads
Thursday, November 20th at 6:00. p.m.
Oelwein Reads Book Club meets at Ampersand located at 110 South Frederick Ave.
This book club will focus on books about Iowa or the Midwest.
The book selected is Out of This World: A Woman's Life Among the Amish by Mary Swander.
Brief summary:
Because of a severe allergic illness the author ended up in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi.
In this book she celebrates her time among the Amish people, explores what it means to be a lone woman homesteader at the
end of the twentieth century, and ponders the quiet spirituality born of a life on the land.
For more information on Book Talk contact Deann at the library.
319-283-1515 or email at dfox@oelwein.lib.ia.us