Hi everyone, our monthly book club gathering for adults is today at 3:00 p.m. at the Southeast Steuben County Library.

Our January Read is The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which discusses in depth for a short book, the differences between a Capitalistic Economy based on scarcity and one that profits the individual versus a natural gift-giving-reciprocal-community building style of economics that fosters a symbiotic relationship among plants/people; the botanist author compares this reciprocally beneficial economy to life in the natural world, and in particular to the way Serviceberry and how they grow and offer sustenance to other plants and animals by their photosynthesis, and how other plants/animals then take their berries and return the favor, for example the birds who eat their seeds, digest them and then drop them in a variety of locations so more Serviceberry plants can grow.

We’ll be meeting from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. and everyone is welcome – no registration is required – simply show up.

In February, we’ll be meeting on, as usual, the second Friday of the month, Friday, February 13 at 3:00 p.m. and we will be discussing the book My Friends by Fredrik Backman, copies of which may be picked up at the Circulation Desk starting today.

Happy reading everyone!

Linda Reimer, SSCL