“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
“He knows she hates her body, he knows she’s confused about who to snog. He knows she’s really a he.”
The Overnight Guest is a thriller, written in three different voices until it all comes together in the end.
"I will share whatever I can. After all, the more you give, the more you have. It is the only true thing I know.”
“You grow readers, expand minds, if you let them choose, but you go banning a read, you stunt the whole community.”
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Maid by Nita Prose.
“Speaking up for people who don’t have a voice is important…It's the right thing to do, even if it's hard.”
Jama is a 12-year-old girl living in Kenya. She loves elephants more than she loves most people. Jama wants more than marriage and motherhood. She wants an education and autonomy.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman.
Olivia McAfee and her teenage son Asher are living in Olivia’s childhood home taking care of her father’s beehives.
“Forty years on one of the most elite assassin squads on earth and it finished like this, with a free cruise and a bouncy letter from a girl who signed her letters with hashtags.”
“It’s easier than you’d ever think—existing in plain sight while remaining largely invisible. That’s what I’ve learned from being a maid.”
“She had the kind of beauty that hurt your eyes if you looked at her for too long, but made it hard to tear your gaze away. It was, Hannah realized, as if a different kind of light were shining on her than on the rest of the room.”
In 1965 Ellie Hockley, raised to be a southern lady, is engaged to a bank manager and enrolled in college. Against the wishes of her parents, Ellie joins the freedom fighters in an effort to register black voters.
“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to “decide what to do with them. It was as if they were just taking our bodies from us, as if we didn’t even belong to ourselves.”
“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.” This quote is from the octopus Marcellus in the novel who is always evaluating humans, and feels he is quite superior to them.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the CBV library to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
“There was for me during this time a sense of being dazed. As though, in a way, I was not capable of taking in everything that was happening in this world.”
“Happiness had never been something she’d looked for. A quiet day with no insults or wallops, that was the best she could imagine.”
““Perhaps the greatest gift ever bestowed upon us by evolution is the ability to believe we are more powerful than we are...”
