Baltimore Books and Brews

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Suggest new books or locations using this link: Baltimore Books and Brews Suggestions

It's hard to make friends as an adult. Come join a low-stakes kind of book club where we hang out, chat about our monthly book, and build community.

Didn't finish the book? Only watched the movie? Hated it? Just want to listen to other people talk about a book you've never read? Everyone is welcome!

We'll rotate breweries or coffee shops for meet ups once a month (usually the 3rd Saturday of the month).

What to expect:

To encourage and spark conversations we'd like to open meet ups by going around the room, introducing ourselves by rating the book 1-5 stars and a couple sentences about what you thought about the book.
At the end of the meeting we’ll spin a wheel full of genres for a random genre and then use that to select a book from out Suggestion list at random for future events.
Events planned a few months in advance to give everyone more time to find, place on hold, and read the book.
We want your suggestions! - we really value the input from the group and wanted to keep all those great book and location suggestions in one spot where they won't get lost for future meetups.

Featured event

July Genre Local: Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford

Sat, Jul 18 · 1:00 PM EDT

Nephente, 3626 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, US

July Genre: Local
July Book: Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford
Location: Nepenthe Brewing Co.

From the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT, the story of a fractured family and three sisters' secrets.
The Sullivan sisters have a big problem. On Christmas Day their rich and imperious grandmother gathers the family and announces that she will soon die . . .and has cut the entire family out of her will. Since she is the source of almost all their income, this means they will soon be penniless.
Someone in the family has offended her deeply. If that person comes forward with a confession of her (or his) crime, submitted in writing to her lawyer by New Year's Day, she will reinstate the family in her will. Or at least consider it.
And so the confessions begin....
Some involve love.
Some involve hate.
Some involve life.
Some involve death.
No secret is too big or too small for the Sullivans, or for author Natalie Standiford, in this smart and funny novel about the confessions that can bring families together...or tear them apart.

Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph

6 attendees

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July Genre Local: Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford
Sat, Jul 18 · 1:00 PM EDT
Nephente, 3626 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, US
July Genre: Local
July Book: Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford
Location: Nepenthe Brewing Co.

From the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT, the story of a fractured family and three sisters' secrets.
The Sullivan sisters have a big problem. On Christmas Day their rich and imperious grandmother gathers the family and announces that she will soon die . . .and has cut the entire family out of her will. Since she is the source of almost all their income, this means they will soon be penniless.
Someone in the family has offended her deeply. If that person comes forward with a confession of her (or his) crime, submitted in writing to her lawyer by New Year's Day, she will reinstate the family in her will. Or at least consider it.
And so the confessions begin....
Some involve love.
Some involve hate.
Some involve life.
Some involve death.
No secret is too big or too small for the Sullivans, or for author Natalie Standiford, in this smart and funny novel about the confessions that can bring families together...or tear them apart.

Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph
6 attendees
August Book Club: Here for it by R. Eric Thomas
Sat, Aug 22 · 1:00 PM EDT
Peabody Heights Brewery, 401 East 30th Street, Baltimore, MD, US
August Genre: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
August Book: Here for it by R. Eric Thomas
Location: Peabody Heights Brewery

R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in.
In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Thomas reexamines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents' house was an anomalous bright spot, and the Eden-like school they sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, the exhaustion of code-switching in college, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election for Elle online, and the seismic changes that came thereafter. Ultimately, Thomas seeks the answer to these ever more relevant questions: Is the future worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways, Thomas finds the answers to these questions by reenvisioning what "normal" means and in the powerful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center of your own story.Here for It will resonate deeply and joyfully with everyone who has ever felt pushed to the margins, struggled with self-acceptance, or wished to shine more brightly in a dark world. Stay here for it--the future may surprise you.
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph
9 attendees