Nonfiction Book Club RESCHEDULED

This meeting has been rescheduled form Thursday December 8th.

Please join us for a discussion of Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone on Thursday December 12th at 1:30 p.m.

In Sinkable, Daniel Stone spins a fascinating tale of history, science, and obsession, uncovering the untold story of the Titanic not as a ship but as a shipwreck. He explores generations of eccentrics, like American Charles Smith, whose 1914 recovery plan using a synchronized armada of ships bearing electromagnets was complex, convincing, and utterly impossible; Jack Grimm, a Texas oil magnate who fruitlessly dropped a fortune to find the wreck after failing to find Noah's Ark; and the British Doug Woolley, a former pantyhose factory worker who has claimed, since the 1960s, to be the true owner of the Titanic wreckage. Along the way, Sinkable takes readers through the two miles of ocean water in which the Titanic sank, showing how the ship broke apart and why, and delves into the odd history of our understanding of such depths. He even journeys over the Atlantic, during a global pandemic, to track down the elusive Doug Woolley. And Stone turns inward, looking at his own dark obsession with both the Titanic and shipwrecks in general, and why he spends hours watching ships sink on YouTube. Brimming with humor, curiosity, and wit, Sinkable offers up a page-turning work of personal journalism and an immensely entertaining romp through the deep sea and the nature of obsession.

Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the library.