Book Club - Wyrd Sisters (online)
Mondays 7-9pm
September January 6th - February 24 or when until we finish.
Via ZOOM
Settle in with us on Monday evenings at Dappled Fern to craft quietly while Ryan Leng reads out loud. This time, he'll be reading Wyrd Sisters, a humorous fantasy novel in Terry Pratchett’s witches saga with characters Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. This group is 1 part story time, 1 part craft circle, 0 parts homework, 2 parts existential succor during the darkening days of fall on the North Shore.
Reader:
Our reader Ryan is a former English teacher turned librarian. He does all the voices and occasionally shares questions to help us reflect on the story and what it means to us.
About the book:
‘Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It’s the other way around.’
Three witches on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing.
Witches don’t have these kinds of leadership problems themselves – in fact, they don’t have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don’t have. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe.
‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent.’
About the author:
Sir Terry Pratchett was a beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy who wrote more than fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest services to literature was to avoid writing any.
A note:
Folks who register for the inperson group are welcome to attend online - a great option for sick days and days when you really just want to curl up in bed. Similarly, those who register online are welcome to join in person when in town.
If you want to read along, you can support our local book store Drury Lane with purchase of paperback or Libro.FM audiobook!
Want to attend in-person? Register for our In-Person Book Club!
