Dune by Frank Herbert
Put on your best stillsuit, sharpen your Crysknife and join us at the house of Tonelise when we discuss the classic desert science fiction novel, Dune, by Frank Herbert on September 5th. We would feel right at home on the planet Arrakis, with its creosote bushes and kangaroo mice. One should feel thankful that our scorpions and mojave greens aren’t 100 meter long sand worms.
To get to the meeting place from downtown JT go down highway 62, then north on Sunburst, right on Golden, left on Border, keep your eye out for Pole and Del Oro signs and turn left on Winters, with the street sign and Book Club sign on the left hand side of the road. Drive about one mile and turn left on Mc Garry and Tonelise will be the 3rd fenced in house on the left. I’ll make sure to have the big white signs out to guide you in. We will be meeting outside, weather permitting, so bring a folding chair if you have one.
The club has some amazing books coming up. In October we will be reading the novel 29 by Mary Sojourner and for November we will be reading Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles by Diana Lindsay.
Every month from October 2014 until March 2020, Kip’s Desert Book Club gathered on the first Monday of the month at 7:00 pm in the home of a different resident of the Morongo Basin to discuss a book that in one way or another touches on the theme of “desert”.
Since the start of the pandemic, Kip has been hard at work making renovations to the kitchen and bathrooms at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center, where he is the board President, and keeping their monthly USDA food drive alive. During this time, Kip’s Desert Book Club had largely been on pause, with the exception of a few virtual meetings. These virtual gatherings allowed us to welcome the participation of book club fans from beyond our local region.
Sixty-six books, more than seven years, and one pandemic later, Kip has decided to step back from being the primary book club organizer and join the rest of us as readers. Kip, we thank you for all the wonderful and eclectic desert books you’ve chosen over the years, as well as the unforgettable stories and knowledge you continue to share (if you know, you know!)
So, we are excited to announce that beginning in January 2022, our in-person book club will resume as the Desert Research Library Book Club (or DRL Book Club, for short). Each month, a member of the current Desert Research Library Artist Cohort will select a book from the library as that month’s book club selection.
