Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien October’s ‘Good Read’ at the library
–The Paso Robles City Library invites the public to join the Library Book Club’s discussion of Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien on Thursday, Oct. 17, 7-8 p.m.
In 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. Over the next nineteen years, O’Brien studied Wesley’s strange habits with both a tender heart and a scientist’s eye. She watched him turn from a helpless fluff ball into an avid communicator with whom she developed a language all their own. O’Brien brings us inside Caltech’s prestigious research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls sometimes flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals. As O’Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes astonishing discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication, coining the term “The Way of the Owl” to describe his noble behavior.
Wesley the Owl is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty.
The Library’s Book Club meets monthly throughout the year. For more information, call Karen Christiansen at (805) 237-3870.
The Paso Robles City Library is located at 1000 Spring Street and is open Monday – Friday 10-8, and Saturday 10-5. For more information on library programs and events, call (805) 237-3870 or visit www.prcity.com/library.