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SUMMARY:Read It & Eat Book Club  
LOCATION:Homewood Public Library\n<p>1920 29th Ave S\, Birmingham\, AL 352
 09</p>
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DESCRIPTION:We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at th
 e local restaurants in Homewood. Food not provided by the library\, but pa
 rticipants are encouraged to order beverages/food.\n.\nhttps://homewood.li
 bnet.info/event/16046440
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This month we will meet at <strong>Urban C
 ookhouse</strong><br /><strong>1920 29th Ave S\, Birmingham\, AL 35209</st
 rong></p>\n<p><strong>INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong><br /><em>An NPR
  2025 &ldquo\;Books We Love&rdquo\;</em><br /><em>USA Today&nbsp\;April Pi
 ck</em><br /><em>An Indie Next &amp\; LibraryReads Pick</em><br /><em>2026
  Gotham Book Prize Finalist</em><br /><em>Winner of the AudioFiles Earphon
 es Award</em><br /><em>2026 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Pick<br /><b
 r /></em>The Office&nbsp\;meets&nbsp\;Six Feet Under&nbsp\;meets&nbsp\;Abo
 ut a Boy&nbsp\;in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second cha
 nce to write your life&rsquo\;s story.</p>\n<p>Bud Stanley is an obituary 
 writer who is afraid to live. Yes\, his wife recently left him for a &ldqu
 o\;far more interesting&rdquo\; man. Yes\, he goes on a particularly awful
  blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes\, he has too many glas
 ses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. 
 The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company&rsquo\;s system has h
 im listed as dead. And the company can&rsquo\;t fire a dead person. The en
 suing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living
 .</p>\n<p>As Bud awaits his fate at work\, his life hangs in the balance. 
 Given another shot by his boss and encouraged by his best friend\, Tim\, a
  worldly and wise former art dealer\, Bud starts to attend the wakes and f
 unerals of strangers to learn how to live.</p>\n<p>Thurber Prize-winner an
 d&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestselling author John Kenney tells a funny\
 , touching story about life and death\, about the search for meaning\, abo
 ut finding and never letting go of the preciousness of life.</p>\n<p>Place
  this book on hold here: <a href="https://jeffa.na.iiivega.com/search/card
 ?id=adc967e3-5fee-5870-a60e-a9282c2c3cac&amp\;entityType=FormatGroup">I Se
 e You've Called In Dead</a></p>\nhttps://homewood.libnet.info/event/160464
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