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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📖 Monstrilio, by by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Private Location, To be shared privately after RSVP, 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.
For security reasons, location will be shared privately 2 days prior to the event.
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➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee HERE ☕
⚠️ 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.
⚠️ Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
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Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses―though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care―threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.
4 attendees
📖 Whistler, by Ann Patchett
Private Location - Bookish Girls, To be shared after RSVP and validation, 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.
For security reasons, location will be shared privately 2 days prior to the event.
——————➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee HERE ☕⚠️ 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.
⚠️ Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
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About the book
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.8 attendees
📖 The Midnight Train, by Matt Haig
TBD, 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.
For security reasons, location will be shared privately 2 days prior to the event.
——————➡️ Host Instagram @damanreads 📱
➡️ To support, buy the host a coffee HERE ☕⚠️ 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.
⚠️ Book clubs with fewer than 5 signups may be rescheduled or cancelled to ensure a quality discussion experience.
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About the book
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .
A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.8 attendees
📖 Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke
TBD, 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.
For security reasons, location will be shared privately 2 days prior to the event.
——————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 HERE ☕⚠️ 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
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
8 attendees
Past events
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