Reel Reads Book Club

Name: Reel Reads Book Club
Start: 2025-08-27T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-27T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115

Schedule

Wed Aug 27 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115 | Mooresville, NC

Our Reel Reads Book Club is where pages come to life on the big screen! Join us for our next meeting on Wednesday, August 27th at 6:30pm!
We delve into beloved books and their film adaptations. Join fellow enthusiasts in lively discussions that compare storytelling techniques, character interpretations, and thematic explorations across different mediums.
Bookworms or film buffs, our club invites you to dissect, debate, and discover the unique magic of storytelling in all its forms.
This month we will be discussing the book Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD® FOR BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTED BY ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE RAMELL ROSS
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).