Don't Read By Your Shelf Book Club

Do you love talking about your new literary obsession? Are you interested in different genres but still trying to decide what to read? Are you looking to make new bookish friends? Then, the Don't Read By Your Shelf book club has got you covered!
Join us for Monthly meetings where we will read and discuss books from all different genres. From romance to science fiction, exciting fantasy to twisted mystery. We will cover it all!

Stop by the Richmond location circulation desk to grab a copy of each month's book pick.

October's book pick is Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. 

Book Description:

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...

“Splendid...Practical Magic is one of [Hoffman's] best novels, showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is.”—Newsweek

“[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible.”—Cosmopolitan.