About us
We're a girls-only East Bay community for readers who love discussing books in person over coffee. We meet at a local coffee shop to chat about our picks— if a latte and a good book sounds like your perfect hour, you'll fit right in. Members should have a clear profile photo when joining.
Attendance Policy
- A 3-day cancellation notice is required. Late cancellations and missed attendance will both be marked as a no-show. Repeated no-shows will restrict future event registration.
💕 Organizing these meetups takes time and effort. If you’d like to support the organizer, donations can be made on the meetup page or buy the host a coffee ☕
Upcoming events
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📖 The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali
Devout Coffee, 37323 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA, USGrab a coffee and join us for a relaxed discussion of The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali ☕ 📚 This is an easygoing, welcoming conversation over coffee. You do not need to have finished the book to attend. Feel free to share thoughts from wherever you are in the story, or simply listen and enjoy.
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Note: Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee ☕⚠️ A 3-day cancellation notice is required. Late cancellations and missed attendance will both be marked as a no-show. Repeated no-shows will restrict future event registration.
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About the book
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.
Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”
But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.
Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.5 attendees
📖 What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama
Renegade by Devout Coffee, 37324 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA, USGrab a coffee and join us for the book discussion ☕ 📚 This is an easygoing, welcoming conversation over coffee. You do not need to have finished the book to attend. Feel free to share thoughts from wherever you are in the story, or simply listen and enjoy.
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Note: Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee ☕⚠️ A 3-day cancellation notice is required. Late cancellations and missed attendance will both be marked as a no-show. Repeated no-shows will restrict future event registration.
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About the book
What are you looking for? This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.
Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences.
With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.
8 attendees
Books & coffee ☕📚
Devout Coffee, 37323 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA, USJoin in for a bookish morning— we’ll get some coffee & yap about books. (There is no assigned reading for this one.)
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Note: Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee ☕⚠️ A 3-day cancellation notice is required. Late cancellations and missed attendance will both be marked as a no-show. Repeated no-shows will restrict future event registration.
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Organizing these meetups takes time and effort. If you’d like to support the organizer, donations are always appreciated but never required. Donations can be made on the meetup page or you can buy the host a coffee ☕
7 attendees
📖 Strangers, by Belle Burden
Frodo Joe's, 39286 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont, CA, USGrab a coffee and join us ☕ 📚 This is an easygoing, welcoming conversation over coffee. You do not need to have finished the book to attend. Feel free to share thoughts from wherever you are in the story, or simply listen and enjoy.
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Note: Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee ☕⚠️ A 3-day cancellation notice is required. Late cancellations and missed attendance will both be marked as a no-show. Repeated no-shows will restrict future event registration.
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About the book: In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume.
In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through all of it, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was—someone nicknamed “Belle the Good”—gives way to someone braver, someone determined to use her voice.
With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.4 attendees
Past events
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