On the same page
2023-2024 Claremont Community Read
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel creates a fictional family with 5 children, each of whom is a unique young person, each with quirks and interests that need to be dealt with as the family moves forward. The story is told with care, with joy, with research and professional input, with humor, and a great deal of sensitivity. An added feature is a grand mythology that runs like a tune through the book.
Read more about the book on the author's website:
https://www.lauriefrankel.net/this-is-how-it-always-is.html
Let's Talk ~ a community discussion of the This Is How It Always Is
Saturday, December 2, 2023 | 10 a.m.
“Let’s start with Claude. He was talking in sentences before he was a year old. During the year when he was three, he said when he grew up, he wanted to be a chef, a cat, a vet, a dinosaur, a train, a farmer, a recorder player, a scientist, an ice cream cone, a first baseman… When he grew up, he said, he wanted to be a girl.”
Laurie Frankel’s This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, and children grow, but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel is the 2023-24 Claremont read because it lends itself to community discussions — among family members, in book clubs, beyond political divides. We hope to see you here, at the Claremont Helen Renwick Library.
Let's Talk December 2 event flyer > otsp_dec_2_2023_event_flyer.pdf
Where We Belong:
Creating Inclusive Environments for LGBTQIA+ Students and their Families
Saturday, January 20, 2024 | 10 a.m
Where We Belong January 20, 2024 event flyer > 01-20-24_otsp-wherewebelong.pdf
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel creates a fictional family with 5 children, each of whom is a unique young person, each with quirks and interests that need to be dealt with as the family moves forward. The story is told with care, with joy, with research and professional input, with humor, and a great deal of sensitivity. An added feature is a grand mythology that runs like a tune through the book.
Read more about the book on the author's website:
https://www.lauriefrankel.net/this-is-how-it-always-is.html
Let's Talk ~ a community discussion of the This Is How It Always Is
Saturday, December 2, 2023 | 10 a.m.
“Let’s start with Claude. He was talking in sentences before he was a year old. During the year when he was three, he said when he grew up, he wanted to be a chef, a cat, a vet, a dinosaur, a train, a farmer, a recorder player, a scientist, an ice cream cone, a first baseman… When he grew up, he said, he wanted to be a girl.”
Laurie Frankel’s This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, and children grow, but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel is the 2023-24 Claremont read because it lends itself to community discussions — among family members, in book clubs, beyond political divides. We hope to see you here, at the Claremont Helen Renwick Library.
Let's Talk December 2 event flyer > otsp_dec_2_2023_event_flyer.pdf
Where We Belong:
Creating Inclusive Environments for LGBTQIA+ Students and their Families
Saturday, January 20, 2024 | 10 a.m
Where We Belong January 20, 2024 event flyer > 01-20-24_otsp-wherewebelong.pdf
What is On The Same Page?
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The Friends of the Claremont Library sponsors the annual citywide reading program: Claremont: On the Same Page. We engage as many people as possible in the discussion of one book as the basis for a common experience.
Local reading groups and educators are encouraged to read the book as part of their activities or curriculum. After the book is selected in September, a variety of local events are offered to discuss the book and topics related to it. All events are all free and open to the public. We would love you to join us in reading these books, and to attend as many events as possible. |
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Past selections include:
- 2022 A Fire Story by Brian Fries
- 2021 Always a Song by Ellen Harper
- 2020 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- 2019 The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- 2018 The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2017 Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel
- 2016 Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
- 2015 Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- 2014 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2013 Take one Candle Light A Room by Susan Straight
- 2012 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- 2011 Into the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
- 2010 The God of War by Marisa Silver
- 2009 The Soloist by Steve Lopez
- 2008 Distant Land of Our Fathers by Bo Caldwell
- 2007 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck