Lewis & Clark Library's Genre-Hopping Book Club meets on Thursday, November 5, and the premise is exactly what it sounds like: show up willing to read something outside your usual lane. The club works its way through popular fiction, literary fiction, sci-fi, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and graphic novels — sometimes in the same month, sometimes in the same conversation.
Admission is free and the meeting is open to anyone. The club's approach is less about consensus picks and more about using different formats and genres as a lens for talking about storytelling itself — why a graphic novel tells a story differently than a poem, or why a personal essay gets at something a novel can't.
For Helena readers who've been meaning to finally try a book club but weren't sure they wanted to commit to someone else's literary taste, the genre-hopping format has a built-in appeal. Nothing is off-limits, and the expectation seems to be curiosity over expertise.
The November 5 meeting coincides with Carroll College's donor event across town, so Helenans will need to choose their Thursday evening accordingly. The library meeting is free; details on which specific title or genre is up for November's discussion were not available at press time.