By Grace Mandato Living and arts editor
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, an event titled “Book Club at the Brew Pub” will take place at 9 p.m. at the Selin’s Grove Brewing Co. in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Students, faculty and community members are invited to attend the event.
The book that will be discussed is “Ghost World” by Daniel Clowes. It is a graphic novel that was published in 1997. It follows the lives of two best friends navigating from adolescence into adulthood.
Book Club at the Brew Pub held its first meeting last month when a short story titled “The Great Switcheroo” by Roland Dahl was discussed. Eighteen people, including students, staff and community members met at the Brew Pub and talked about the short story.
Junior Jack McKivergan was in attendance at the first book club meeting. He said the Brew Pub had a nice atmosphere for meeting. He said: “When I walked into the Brew Pub I got the vibe of it being a place that you go to with your friends and chill and have a beer. It just really felt like a nice, little, cozy place to get some food.”
McKivergan also discussed the book club event. He said it was easy to converse with everyone and people blurted out how they felt about the short story.
Senior Jess Deibert and Ryan Ake, outreach and collection development librarian, got the idea for the club earlier this semester and said it will be a monthly event.
Ake said he and Deibert wanted to create an event that appealed to both students and the community. They decided to hold the book club meeting in town.
“We are trying to build a strong relationship between community, university, library and committee,” Ake said.
Oct. 26 will mark the second Book Club at the Brew Pub event. The book, “Ghost World,” was chosen based on a poll of members taken at the last book club meeting.
Copies of the graphic novel can be borrowed from the Blough-Weis Library for those interested in attending the event.
There are three copies located in the leisure reading section and two more behind the service desk on reserve. The Brew Pub also has a copy of the book for customers to read during their visit.
Additionally, Deibert will hold a meeting at 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 25 at Scholarly Grounds in the Blough-Weis Library to create discussion questions for the event.
Anyone interested in further information about the event can contact Deibert.
Book Club at the Brew Pub is sponsored by Susquehanna’s Student Library Advisory Committee. The Student Library Advisory Committee is a re-established organization at Susquehanna.
It acts as a liaison between the Blough-Weis Library and the students, and its mission is to improve library services for students on campus.
The Student Library Advisory Committee is also involved in the planning of the Chill Out and Stress Less events held at Blough-Weis Library.
Anyone interested in joining the club or offering suggestions on improvements for the library can contact senior Franklyn Benjamin, president of the club.
