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Arts & CultureThursday, November 19

Banned Books Club - Slaughterhouse Five

Thursday, November 19 · 2:30-3:30 p.m. · Thomas Branigan Memorial Library

2:30-3:30 p.m.
When
  • Thursday, November 19 · 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Where
Thomas Branigan Memorial Library200 E Picacho Ave · Las Cruces, NM · 88001

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The Banned Book Club meets early this month due to the Thanksgiving holiday, November 19 at 12:00. The selection for the month of November, Honoring Veteran's Day, is Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" is a semi-autobiographical, satirical, science fiction novel. Billy Pilgrim, the book's unreliable narrator, is on a time traveling journey where the tension between testifying to the violence witnessed as a P.O.W and repressing post-traumatic stress, propels him across space and time. Atrocities abound where free will is stripped, but what of the individuals' moral responsibility? So it goes...

Books are available for check out at the reference desk, the audiobook is available on the Libby app and the eBook is available on Hoopla.

Join the online meeting via Microsoft Teams using code: 291-029-649-672-37

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Banned Books on FILM is a film series that screens the film version of banned books.

Join us for a screening of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) on Monday November 16, 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Directed by George Roy Hill, rated R. Light Refreshments will be served.

See the film before attending the book discussion on November 19th at noon.

Watch the trailer HERE.

Listed by CitySpark: Las Cruces, NM, gathered by the Las Cruces events calendar.