About us
Do you love reading literary fiction as much as we do? Do you find yourself finishing a book and wanting to share the experience? Do you miss the experience of reading a book and discussing the deeper meaning and implications with a group?
We meet once a month, either on zoom or in one of our homes, to discuss our latest selection.
Note: There are scammers impersonating the organizers of this book club, offering indie writers the chance to have their book discussed in our group with the payment of a fee. It is a scam. We do not contact writers. The books we read in this group have won or been short listed for a Pulitzer, National Book Award, or Mann Booker prize, been listed as a top read of the year by NYT, and have dozens of copies available at LA-area libraries. If you receive an email from someone claiming to be an organizer of this group and asking for a fee, please report it to Google as a phishing attempt.
Upcoming events
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LA LitFans Meetup for Sept: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
·OnlineOnlineFor Sept, we'll be discussing the classic, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
https://amzn.to/3TdzqaWWe hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, acclaimed author Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples: a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. Set against the backdrop of the Prague Spring, this unforgettable work of philosophical fiction explores a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.15 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for Nov: Country People
·OnlineOnlineFor November, we'll be discussing Country People by Daniel Mason.
https://amzn.to/4xIKegbAlso note that the October book selection has been changed to John of John by Douglas Stuart
We hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere. And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.
The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre—perhaps ridiculous—local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.
5 attendees
Past events
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