Sad Girl Book Club

Name: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Start: 2025-07-09T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-07-09T20:00:00.000Z
Location: BookBar

London, GB

49 members · Public group

Organized by Jason Potel

What we’re about

A group to read Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, etc.

🗓️ Monthly Meetups
We gather once a month in a cozy café or bar in London to discuss the book, share reflections, and maybe a little wine or coffee-fueled catharsis.
💌 Open to:
Anyone drawn to introspective, emotionally intense writing — femmes, queers, soft boys, and all sad souls welcome.
📍London
💬 Discussions, poetry readings, occasional tears.
🌹 First meeting: 21 May 2025
Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Location: BookBar, Islington
Time: 7:00 PM
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Wed, 9 July 2025, 7:00 pm BSTMy Year of Rest and Relaxation
BookBar, London
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📖 Book: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
📍 Location: Bookbar
🗓️ Date/Time: Tuesday, 9 July 2025 at 19:00

“My hibernation was self-preservational. I thought that it was going to save my life.”

For this month’s descent into beautifully detached sadness, we’re reading Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation — a novel about grief, privilege, and pharmaceutical numbness, narrated by a woman attempting to sleep through late-capitalist New York in the year 2000.

💬 Expect:
• Discussion on girlhood, grief, and generational exhaustion
• How to romanticize the void (ethically)
• Shared fantasies of disappearing without dying
• A safe space to ask: Would sleeping for a year actually fix me?

Come for the book, stay for the ambient existential crisis and espresso martinis.

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