Travel book club holds inaugural meeting
Travel book club holds inaugural meeting
The first meeting of the new Not-Just-A-Book-Club Travel Conversation Club will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Kailua-Kona Public Library.
The club features friendly conversation and sharing of ideas. Attendees will also share a favorite travel book, where they’ve been, their most enjoyable itineraries, cruise destinations and cruise lines, tips for using the internet to book plane, train, and car reservations, finding the right hotels, getting TSA precheck, passports, and Visas.
The club next meets Jan. 21.
Info: 327-4327
Fiction book club meets Tuesday
Kona Stories hosts a fiction book club discussing “Our Souls at Night” by Kent Haruf on Tuesday.
The group meets at 6:30 p.m. at the store. Book groups are free if books are purchased at Kona Stories, or a $5 donation is requested.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis’s wife. His daughter lives hours away, her son even farther, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in empty houses, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. But maybe that could change? As Addie and Louis come to know each other better — their pleasures and their difficulties — a beautiful story of second chances unfolds.
Info: Brenda or Joy, 324-0350, www.konastories.com.