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CENTRAL: The Graphic Novel Book Club - Artificial by Amy Kurzweil

* Date: 03/13/2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
* Location: Central Park Library - Board Room
2635 Homestead Rd.
Santa Clara, California 95051 [ http://www.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=2635+Homestead+Rd.+%2c+Santa+Clara%2c+California+95051 ]

 Adult graphic novel book club 2025 

Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2025 season! We will enjoy celebrated comic creators, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets *every second Thursday of the month at 5PM at the Central Park Library's Board Room and also on Zoom*.

To RSVP for the Zoom use this link: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub [ http://tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub ]

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/ ]), through LINK+ [ https://linkencore.iii.com/iii/encore/search/C__S()__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=def ] (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla [ https://www.hoopladigital.com/ ] (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About March's read:

"In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father, Fredric, an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938.

Once, Fred’s life was saved by his art: an American benefactor, impressed by Fred’s musical genius, sponsored his emigration to the United States. He escaped just one month before Kristallnacht.

Now, Fred has returned. Through AI and salvaged writing, Ray is building a chatbot that writes in Fred’s voice, and he enlists his daughter, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, to help him ensure the immortality of their family’s fraught inheritance.

Amy’s deepening understanding of her family’s traumatic uprooting resonates with the creative life she fights to claim in the present, as Amy and her partner, Jacob, chase jobs, and each other, across the country. Kurzweil evokes an understanding of accomplishment that centers conversation and connection, knowing and being known by others.

With Kurzweil’s signature humanity and humor, in boundary-pushing, gorgeous handmade drawings, Artificial guides us through nuanced questions about art, memory, and technology, demonstrating that love, a process of focused attention, is what grounds a meaningful life."

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*GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2025 SCHEDULE*

JANUARY: It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be by Lizzy Stewart [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=It%E2%80%99s%20Not%20What%20You%20Thought%20It%20Would%20Be%20by%20Lizzy%20Stewart&searchType=smart ]

FEBRUARY: Knock Out: The True Story of Emile Griffith by Reinhard Kleist [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Knock%20Out%3A%20The%20True%20Story%20of%20Emile%20Griffith%20by%20Reinhard%20Kleist&searchType=smart ]

MARCH: Artificial by Amy Kurzweil [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Artificial%20by%20Amy%20kurzweil&searchType=smart ]

APRIL: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Three%20Escapes%20of%20Hannah%20Arendt%20by%20Ken%20Krimstein&searchType=smart ]

MAY: Rare Flavours by Ram V [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Rare%20Flavours%20by%20Ram%20V&searchType=smart ]

JUNE: So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=So%20Long%20Sad%20Love%20by%20Mirion%20Malle&searchType=smart ]

JULY: Land of the Dead by Brian McDonald [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Land%20of%20the%20Dead%20by%20Brian%20McDonald&searchType=smart ]

AUGUST: Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Where%20the%20Body%20Was%20by%20Ed%20Brubaker&searchType=smart ]

SEPTEMBER: Impossible People by Julia Wertz [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Impossible%20People%20by%20Julia%20Wertz&searchType=smart ]

OCTOBER: The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Manu Larcenet [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Road%20by%20Cormac%20McCarthy%20%26%20Manu%20Larcenet&searchType=smart ]

NOVEMBER: Polar Vortex by Denise Dorrance [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Polar%20Vortex%20by%20Denise%20Dorrance&searchType=smart ]

DECEMBER: You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=You%20and%20a%20Bike%20and%20a%20Road%20by%20Eleanor%20Davis&searchType=smart ]

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