What we’re about
Do you love books? Love discussing books? Eating out? Come and join our camaraderie and share a meal and book discussion We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30m to eat and discuss books. We have a Goodreads site managed by Nina and Rachel.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/131717
Goodreads is best accessed using a browser rather than a mobile device - this allows you to see all the Bookclubs book
Each meeting you attend is $2.00 to cover the cost of maintaining the website. Meetings are typically attended by 15-20 depending on the restaurant. The large group breaks down into several smaller informal groups to facilitate easier discussion during the meeting
A moderator prepares questions for the book being discussed. The moderator also chooses 3-4 books for the group to vote for an upcoming month. Being a moderator is a voluntary position. If you would like to be a moderator but need help, let me know and I can assist you.
Rules of engagement
RSVPS open about 2 weeks before the meeting and closes the day before the meeting. If you do not get on the list do not despair. Put yourself on the waitlist and read the book. Many times, life happens, and someone will change their RSVP and a spot will become available. You will receive an email letting you know the spot is available. By the same token, if you find you cannot attend, PLEASE change your RSVP. The system will then send an email to someone on the waitlist. Putting a message on the board does not count. The RSVP must be changed or the next person on the waitlist does not get their email. It is very sad to have a waitlist and members not showing for the meeting. Restaurant will only allow us to reserve a limited number of seats. We need to keep those seats full, or restaurants will not want to deal with us.
Emergencies happen short notice please email through the system if any emergencies/special situation arise CherylAnn
Upcoming events (3)
See all- September Meetup Book ClubNeeds location
# My Friends Fredrik Backman
MODERATOR: Fanny
"The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else's belief in them."
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of a wide expanse of sea. But Louisa, soon to be eighteen years old and an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise. She is determined to find out the story behind these three enigmatic figures.
More than two decades before, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up every morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.
Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that, after a chance encounter in an alleyway, will unexpectedly be placed into Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to discover how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more anxious she becomes about what she'll find. Louisa's complicated life is proof that happy endings are sometimes possible, but they don't always take the form we expect them to.
Fredrik Backman's signature charm, humor, and attention to the poignant details of everyday life are on full display in this funny, moving novel. His most heartfelt and personal tale yet, My Friends is a stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of art and friendship.
- Saint Petersburg Meetup November Book club... $3.00 donation per meetingNeeds location
# James by Percival Everett
MODERATOR: Alice L.
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024) Goodreads Choice Award
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.
