Book talk focuses on ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’

The Novel Conversations Book Discussion Group meets at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., to talk about “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” by Amy Tan.

Set in Contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, the novel is “an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes,” library representatives say.

Copies of “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” are available in various formats including regular print, large print, audio book, and downloadable eBook, which may be requested online by visiting the library catalog at www.nols.org. (To view a complete list of the 2018 selections, visit www.nols.org/book-discussion-groups.)

The discussion group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. To participate, simply read the book and attend the discussion; no reservations are needed, and drop-ins are welcome.

For more information, see www.nols.org, email to Discover@nols.org or call 360-683-1161.

Woodturners to meet

The Strait Turners woodturners group meets from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road. The group’s guest presenter is Rick Rich on the topic of “Cake/Desert Stand.” Rich, who is from southwestern Washington, presented at the American Association of Woodturners Symposium in Portland, Ore., in June.

For more information, visit the club website at www.straitturners.org.

Sequim quilter a winner

American Quilter’s Society, the largest quilting membership organization in the world, announced last week that Martha Scott of Sequim won first place in the Wall Quilts: Appliquéd Quilts at the AQSQuiltWeek event in Fall Paducah, Ky., with her quilt titled “Enchanted Village.”

The AQS QuiltWeek event featured nearly 700 quilts from around the world, with entries from 42 states and 13 countries.