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Books on Main Adult Book Club

In-Person and Virtual

2022-10-17 18:00:00 2022-10-17 19:00:00 America/Chicago Books on Main Adult Book Club October Discussion of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Bentonville Public Library - McGaugh Family Literacy Area

Monday, October 17
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-10-17 18:00:00 2022-10-17 19:00:00 America/Chicago Books on Main Adult Book Club October Discussion of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Bentonville Public Library - McGaugh Family Literacy Area

Bentonville Public Library

McGaugh Family Literacy Area

October Discussion of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Books available at the front desk while supplies last!

Registration is no longer required! If you would like to attend virtually please contact nhendrix@bentonvillear.com or hhays@bentonvillear.com for a Zoom link.

Book Summary:

From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.

It’s a love letter. To life.

It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Good luck.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs |

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About the branch

Bentonville Public Library is located just 3 blocks south of the Downtown Square, at 405 S. Main Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. Facility amenities include an engaging adult collection with private study rooms, vibrant children's and teen spaces, community meeting rooms, genealogy research center and café. 

Upcoming events

Canceled
Thu, Mar 28, All day
The library is taking a one week storytime break. Storytime will resume the week of April 1st.

Thu, Mar 28, 9:30am - 9:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, lap bounces, and more! Best for ages 0-18 months and their caregiver.

Thu, Mar 28, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Canceled
Sat, Mar 30, All day
The library is taking a one week storytime break. Storytime will resume the week of April 1st.

Sat, Mar 30, 11:15am - 11:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Mon, Apr 01, 10:00am - 11:00am
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
Friends of the Bentonville Library Monthly Meeting

Tue, Apr 02, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 02, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Canceled
Tue, Apr 02, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Open play chess for all skill levels. Grades 1 - 6 welcome.

Wed, Apr 03, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 03, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 03, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
Library Advisory Board Meeting

Wed, Apr 03, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
April Discussion of The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston

Thu, Apr 04, 9:30am - 9:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, lap bounces, and more! Best for ages 0-18 months and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 04, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 04, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Teen Zone
7th - 12th graders are invited to join D&D @BPL!

Thu, Apr 04, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Haney Family Conference Room
Join the NWA food bank to learn about creating a garden. Register

Fri, Apr 05, 10:30am - 11:00am
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Sat, Apr 06, 10:00am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Practice your reading-aloud skills with a non-judgmental audience - a dog! All ages welcome.

Sat, Apr 06, 11:15am - 12:00pm
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Mon, Apr 08, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Children's Area,Teen Zone
Each meeting will focus on a topic related to library and information skills or English Language Arts. For students in kindergarten - 12th grade. Registration requested.

Mon, Apr 08, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Teen Zone
Students are invited to learn about research, constructing arguments, and public speaking.Register

Mon, Apr 08, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
Read, think, and share ideas about great books! This month, we're talking about The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt. For children entering 4th - 6th grade.

Tue, Apr 09, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 09, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 09, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Children's Area
Practice the art of origami with our volunteer instructors. All skill levels welcome! For kids in 1st - 6th grade.

Tue, Apr 09, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
April Discussion of The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Wed, Apr 10, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 10, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 10, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Teen Zone
April Discussion of Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Thu, Apr 11, 9:30am - 9:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, lap bounces, and more! Best for ages 0-18 months and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 11, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 11, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Haney Family Conference Room
Join the NWA food bank to learn about creating a garden. Register

Sat, Apr 13, 10:00am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Practice your reading-aloud skills with a non-judgmental audience - a dog! All ages welcome.

Sat, Apr 13, 11:15am - 12:00pm
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Mon, Apr 15, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
April Discussion of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tue, Apr 16, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 16, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 16, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Children's Area
Join Ms. Christina each month for a story and related art project! Check back for project information. For kids in K - 6th grade.

Wed, Apr 17, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 17, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 18, 9:30am - 9:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, lap bounces, and more! Best for ages 0-18 months and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 18, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 18, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Teen Zone
7th - 12th grade Swifties, join us for this fun event!

Thu, Apr 18, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Haney Family Conference Room
Join the NWA food bank to learn about creating a garden. Register

Fri, Apr 19, 10:30am - 11:00am
Books, songs, movement activities, and more - with a historical twist! All ages welcome.

Canceled
Sat, Apr 20, 10:00am - 11:00am
A space where Pokémon enthusiasts can hang out and play the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Please bring your own cards. For kids in 3rd grade and up. No registration required.

Sat, Apr 20, 11:15am - 11:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Mon, Apr 22, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Haney Family Conference Room
Students are invited to learn about research, constructing arguments, and public speaking.Register

Mon, Apr 22, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Stop by and study for your upcoming AP exams. Subjects covered: US Government, Micro & Macro Economics, Psychology.

Mon, Apr 22, 6:00pm - 7:45pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting

Tue, Apr 23, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Tue, Apr 23, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Canceled
Tue, Apr 23, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Build a LEGO® model based on the monthly challenge. For kids in K - 6th grade.

Wed, Apr 24, 9:30am - 9:50am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement, and LOTS of fun! Best for ages 18-36 months and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 24, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Wed, Apr 24, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Teen Zone
Stop by and study for your upcoming AP exams. Subjects covered: US History, World History, European History & Art History.

Wed, Apr 24, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
McGaugh Family Literacy Area
Join us to grow your creative writing skills and meet new friends!

Thu, Apr 25, 9:30am - 9:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, lap bounces, and more! Best for ages 0-18 months and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 25, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Area
Engaging stories, silly rhymes, interactive music and movement activities, and more! Best for ages 3-6 and their caregiver.

Thu, Apr 25, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Haney Family Conference Room
Join the NWA food bank to learn about creating a garden. Register

Fri, Apr 26, 10:30am - 11:00am
Books, songs, movement activities, and more - with a wetlands twist! All ages welcome.

Sat, Apr 27, 11:15am - 11:45am
Children's Area
Books, songs, movement activities, and more! All ages welcome.

Canceled
Sat, Apr 27, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
The Bentonville Police Department presents this workshop featuring important topics for new drivers.