UU Can't Ban My Books; A Virtual Book Club - "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

UU Can’t Ban My Books: A Virtual Book Club
Thursday, July 22nd 6:30 PM, On Zoom
Looking For Alaska By John Green

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of each month on Zoom for UU Can’t Ban My Books, a virtual book club hosted by the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria. We’ll read and discuss young adult books that have been banned or challenged in parts of the U.S.—books that spark meaningful conversations around social justice, identity, and the values we hold dear as Unitarian Universalists. Come ready to read courageously, reflect deeply, and stand up for the stories that matter. Books are available locally at Lit on Fire, on-line at bookshop.org/shop/UUCP, for free at your local library, and at many more locations.

This month’s selection, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school as he seeks a "Great Perhaps," in the famous last words of French writer François Rabelais. This coming-of-age novel explores themes of meaning, grief, hope, and youth–adult relationships. Since its release it has frequently been in the top ten of the American Library Association's list of most-challenged books, with profanity and a sexually explicit scene identified as objectionable.

Join us this month or in the future:
Aug 26th Kindred, By Octavia Butler
Sep 23rd Gender Queer, By Maia Kobabe
Oct 28th Crank, By Ellen Hopkins
Nov 25th The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, By Sherman Alexie

You may also like the following events from Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria, Illinois:

• Next month, 1st August, 09:00 am, UUCP Rummage Sale in Peoria
• Next month, 2nd August, 09:00 am, UUCP Rummage Sale in Peoria
• Next month, 6th August, 06:00 pm, Keepers of the Great Grove CUUPs in Peoria

Also check out other Arts events in Jeju, Literary Art events in Jeju.