Book Talk will meet January 8 at Donald W. Reynolds Library to discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures, a bestselling novel by Shelby Van Pelt. Leading the discussion will be retired educator Phyllis Rustin, who taught English and journalism at Durant High School. Reviewers have called the chosen novel “completely charming,” “unique and luminous,” and “sweet and warm.”
It follows widow Tova Sullivan as she takes a night-shift job at Sowell Bay Aquarium to keep herself busy, still trying to cope with her grief over the mysterious vanishing thirty years earlier of her 18-year-old son on a boat in Puget Sound.
An unexpected bonus of her new job is a friendship with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly but brilliant giant octopus who lives at the aquarium. Marcellus puts his skills as a detective to work to help Tova learn what happened to her son.
Rustin holds B.A. degrees from Southern Nazarene University and Southeastern Oklahoma State University (SOSU), as well as an M.Ed. degree from SOSU.
Book Talk meets monthly except in December and the summer months. Copies of Book Talk books are available for purchase at the library service desk.
The group’s next meeting will be February 12, when Dr. Alexa Smith Osborne, who is a therapist in private practice, will lead a discussion of Another thing to Fall by Laura Lippman.
