Juniper Blue by Susan Lang
Susan Lang wrote a series of 3 novels following the life of a powerful female Pipes Canyon original homesteader. I have been eager for us to read Juniper Blue, the second in the series for the June 5th Book Club meeting in Wonder Valley at 7:00.
If you haven’t read the first, Small Rocks Rising, I highly recommend it. We will be saving the last, Moon Lily, for a month that is convenient for the author to visit us and answer all the questions that we have been saving up after reading this incredible series of novels. I have seen her speak before, and I assure you, it will be a Book Club meeting not to be missed.
To find the Book Club site, take hwy. 62 East through 29 Palms and drive till the road makes it’s giant zig zag, watch for Shelton road on your left and then look for the white Book Club sign past the emergency pull out on the North side of the road. Turn left on Gehr road and then turn right on Sullivan to the first and only driveway on the left. (I’ll have plenty of giant white Book Club signs out) Can’t wait to see another beautiful Wonder Valley sunset. — Kip
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.
