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Book Club: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

2025-10-07 18:00:00 2025-10-07 19:30:00 America/Denver Book Club: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend!  Durango Public Library - Room 3

Tuesday, October 07
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-07 18:00:00 2025-10-07 19:30:00 America/Denver Book Club: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend!  Durango Public Library - Room 3

Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend! 

Books available six weeks before book club date.

About the book:

"Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ? how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?  This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.  The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over  is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known?where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.  A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times."

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | More Fun Stuff! | Book Talks |

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Durango Public Library


Hours
Mon, Sep 08 9:30AM to 6:00PM
Tue, Sep 09 9:30AM to 6:00PM
Wed, Sep 10 9:30AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Sep 11 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Sep 12 9:30AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Sep 13 9:30AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Sep 14 Closed

About the Library

Overlooking the Animas River, the Durango Public Library and Botanical Gardens is one of the most popular gathering spots in our community.

Upcoming Events

Tue, Sep 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment.

Wed, Sep 10, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 3+.

Wed, Sep 10, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Want to make a fun space for you and your friends? Join the Teen Advisory Group! Help the library meet your needs and interests, gain valuable experience, meet new friends, and hang out!

Wed, Sep 10, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Gardening in Durango means wrestling with steep slopes, dry soils, and the ever-present risk of fire - join fungal expert Dr. Lauren Czaplicki to learn how fungi can help your garden thrive!

Wed, Sep 10, 6:15pm - 7:45pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1
A new topic every month!

Thu, Sep 11, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 1-2.

Thu, Sep 11, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Enjoy gaming in the library with a variety of games!

Thu, Sep 11, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1
Let's get creative! ¡Seamos creativos!

Fri, Sep 12, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Baby Time is tailored for babies from birth-12 months together with their favorite adult!

Fri, Sep 12, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Friday afternoons are all about having fun building, playing, exploring, and creating together!

Fri, Sep 12, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
With Jim White, Aquatic Biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Sat, Sep 13, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Calling knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists of all ages and levels!

Mon, Sep 15, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Learn how to reduce human-wildlife conflict through a four-part lecture series from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. All programs run 6-7:30pm.

Tue, Sep 16, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Presented by the Early Childhood Council of La Plata County.

Tue, Sep 16, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library
Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment.

Tue, Sep 16, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Let's get together and cook a potluck of recipes from two historical local cookbooks!

Wed, Sep 17, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 3+.

Wed, Sep 17, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Want to make a fun space for you and your friends? Join the Teen Advisory Group! Help the library meet your needs and interests, gain valuable experience, meet new friends, and hang out!

Wed, Sep 17, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Hive - 1175 Camino Del Rio
Write and create original works with us!

Thu, Sep 18, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 1-2.

Thu, Sep 18, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Enjoy gaming in the library with a variety of games!

Thu, Sep 18, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Come speak Spanish in an informal setting. All language levels welcome! Ven a hablar español en un ambiente informal. ¡Abierto a todas las habilidades!

Fri, Sep 19, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Baby Time is tailored for babies from birth-12 months together with their favorite adult!

Fri, Sep 19, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Friday afternoons are all about having fun building, playing, exploring, and creating together!

Sat, Sep 20, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Let's make music!

Mon, Sep 22, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
At a Death Cafe people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'.

Tue, Sep 23, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment.

Tue, Sep 23, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
With Kathy Myrick

Wed, Sep 24, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 3+.

Wed, Sep 24, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Want to make a fun space for you and your friends? Join the Teen Advisory Group! Help the library meet your needs and interests, gain valuable experience, meet new friends, and hang out!

Wed, Sep 24, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
with Brooke Saffard, Owner, Blooming Landscape & Design and Heather Houk, Farmer & CSU Extension Specialist

Thu, Sep 25, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 1-2.

Thu, Sep 25, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Enjoy gaming in the library with a variety of games!

Thu, Sep 25, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Lleva a la familia a disfrutar de cuentos y canciones bilingües en español e inglés. Bring the family for stories and songs in Spanish and English!

Fri, Sep 26, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Baby Time is tailored for babies from birth-12 months together with their favorite adult!

Fri, Sep 26, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Friday afternoons are all about having fun building, playing, exploring, and creating together!

Fri, Sep 26, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
with Chautauqua Speaker Gail Beaton

Sat, Sep 27, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Calling knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists of all ages and levels!

Mon, Sep 29, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Climate Cafés are a space to share thoughts and feelings about the climate crisis in community.

Tue, Sep 30, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment.

Tue, Sep 30, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1
With San Juan Basin Archaeological Society

Wed, Oct 01, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 3+.

Wed, Oct 01, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Want to make a fun space for you and your friends? Join the Teen Advisory Group! Help the library meet your needs and interests, gain valuable experience, meet new friends, and hang out!

Wed, Oct 01, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Hive - 1175 Camino Del Rio
Write and create original works with us!

Thu, Oct 02, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, & other fun activities! Perfect for children ages 1-2.

Thu, Oct 02, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Enjoy gaming in the library with a variety of games!

Thu, Oct 02, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 2
Come speak Spanish in an informal setting. All language levels welcome! Ven a hablar español en un ambiente informal. ¡Abierto a todas las habilidades!

Fri, Oct 03, 11:00am - 11:30am
Durango Public Library - Storytime Room
Baby Time is tailored for babies from birth-12 months together with their favorite adult!

Fri, Oct 03, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Friday afternoons are all about having fun building, playing, exploring, and creating together!

Tue, Oct 07, 10:00am - 10:45am
Santa Rita Park
Join us for Storytime and nature journaling!

Tue, Oct 07, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined
Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment.

Tue, Oct 07, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Durango Public Library - Room 3
Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend! 
Please contact the library to register for this event.