Popcorn & Pages - Room (via Webex)

Join us online on June 12 at 7pm for our new book club, "Popcorn & Pages". This club will explore books and their cinematic adaptations. Participants will read the book and watch the film on their own, and we will meet via Webex to discuss our thoughts on both versions.

Space is limited, so registration is required. Register, and you will receive meeting information the day before the program.

Our first book and film will be Emma Donoghue's Room, available on Overdrive.

Ebook

Overdrive

E-Audiobook

Overdrive

Film (streaming)

Hoopla

Kanopy

Description from Hoopla:

"I wait for his boots to drop. They fall on Floor, one thump, two thumps, that's how I know he's going to get into Bed with Ma now and make it squeak. I count the squeaks because I'm excellent at numbers. I have to count, I can't lose count, if I lose count I don't know what. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10…"

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose-built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five-year-old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma, the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.