A sweet, eccentric author nana sits in judgement over her spoiled, money grubbing family members in her last days. Excellent magical writing…

Join the Bedford-Pound Ridge Women’s Collective from 7 to 9pm on Thursday, September 22 at Conant Hall as we share our abortion stories and band together as a community to protect the right to reproductive healthcare.

For Ages 8 and up: The Handman String Quartet will be featured in the first of the new Spierling Family Concert Series at Katonah Presbyterian Church. This 60-75 minute concert will feature music from the classical repertory, as well as contemporary and popular short works.

Penny is a lover of good books, a super sleuth of customer recommendations, a list maker, a cocktail pairing book club aficionado, a mom to a college student, and an artist specializing in pup portraiture. Here’s her list of great reads that you might just have missed this year. Check them out and get in on Penny’s best list.

Surreal, tense, and evocative. The collection of short stories shares a similar tone and themes around women' being at odds with men, second generation immigrant Asian women coming to terms with their own identity, and the absurdity of our own reality….

I don’t know about you, but I’m barely hanging on this week. September for me always brings on the blues. The doubts. The sleepless nights. More than New Year’s, September is always a time of looking at my life and saying “what the hell am I doing”. I create goals, make promises to be better, and try to dig out of depression. I promise myself I’ll exercise, get on a better organized schedule, eat out less, work harder, and make good healthy choices…but frankly all of that bores the shit out of me. I want to see friends and eat apple pie and watch good tv…

I grew up spending summers in Vermont and hold it in my heart as a special, special place. Just saying “Vermont” makes me think of green fields and cows and mountains and hikes and laughter and farmers and farm markets and lakes and sun and happiness…and of course, creemees.

Such a bizarre, yet spellbinding, read. One day, one second, all of the men in the world disappear…

Next up…Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib. Next meeting will be September 28th at 7pm…

The taste of summer, and hot dogs, and sunshine, and sandwiches, and picnics…

A purposefully thin love story is sprinkled on top of this fat free novel about reincarnation, the depth of death, and whether or not the next line of humans, the second draft of people, will have nostalgia for our current life…

This week every year brings in the height of anxiety for so many families…getting the backpacks out, organizing the family calendar, teacher assignments in the mail box…

Paint hour next Thursday, September 8th from 11:30 - 12:30 upstairs at the Reading Room…

Flash back over a decade ago to Oxford. An Instagram influencer, and “It Girl” is brutally murdered in her dorm room…

Playing with paints on a summer Sunday. Here’s a fun painting exercise…

If you’ve lost someone out of nowhere, lost someone without the benefit of good-byes, lost someone with questions still banging around your head…you’ll feel this book…

The Magnolia Palace, by Fiona Davis from Penny’s vacation read favorites list. 

Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt. A gentle, twisting, lovely character read…

Koepp, the blockbuster screenwriter responsible for classics like: Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible and Carlito’s Way has, with his second novel, crafted another thrill ride on paper…

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