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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📖 Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke
Fremont, Fremont, CA, USA, 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 is set to private. Message the host for info.
——————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.
10 attendees
📖 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
TBD, CA, USGrab a coffee and join us for a relaxed discussion of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai. ☕ 📚 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.
If anyone wants to connect before the event, I am on Instagram @damanreads 📱
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.
To support the organizer, you can buy the host a coffee ☕
About the book
In the snowy mountains of Vermont, Sonia is lonely. A college student and aspiring writer homesick for India, she turns to an older artist for inspiration and intimacy, a man who will cast a dark spell on the next many years of her life. In Brooklyn, Sunny is lonely, too. A struggling journalist originally from Delhi, he is both beguiled and perplexed by his American girlfriend and the country in which he plans to find his future. As Sonia and Sunny each becomes more and more alienated, they begin to question their understanding of happiness, human connection, and where they belong.
Back in India, Sonia and Sunny's extended families cannot fathom how anyone could be lonely in this great, bustling world. They arrange a meeting between the two—a clumsy meddling that only drives Sonia and Sunny apart before they have a chance to fall in love.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next.7 attendees
Past events
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