The Talker by Mary Sojourner
Author Mary Sojourner, great friend of the Desert Book Club, will be joining us at the Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center on November 6th at 7pm to discuss her new book, *The Talker. This is a collection of short stories published this year, and if the rest are as good as the first one I just read, it will not disappoint. If you missed her last October when we featured her book 29: a Novel*, bring your copy for her to sign. I look forward to hearing what her next writing project is about and if we are lucky, she just might read to us! —Kip
We will be meeting at the Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center at 65336 Winters Rd. Twentynine Palms, CA at 7pm. From downtown JT, drive East on Hwy. 62 and turn left (north) on Sunburst. Turn right at Golden, left on Border and keep your eyes open for Pole and Del Oro streets. Winters will be the next road, (sign on the left hand side), look for the white Book Club sign on the right. The Community Center is 4 miles down Winters on the left hand side. From 29 Palms, Go west on Hwy. 62, turn right on Sunfair and continue on the dirt where it changes names to Coyote Valley. Turn left on Winters at the stop sign and the Center will be on your right in about a quarter mile.
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.
