Name: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (2011)
Start: 2025-08-19T23:00:00.000Z
Location: Brecotea Midlothian

From Goodreads:

At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer are ambitious young women in New York City who become best friends as they struggle to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there's no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls.

Five decades after it was first published in 1966, *Valley of the Dolls* remains the all-time pop culture classic, a pioneering work that tackled women's rights, gay rights, drug addiction, and the male literary establishment with signature flair, going on to become one of the world's most popular novels and an influence on generations of cultural icons. Power, money, celebrity, and the deadly seduction of prescription pills — fifty years on, a bedtime dose of *Valley of the Dolls* is just as indispensable, and just as gloriously, scandalously fun, as ever.

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Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

Brecotea Midlothian

**\*\*\*Please note the meeting location is the MIDLOTHIAN/COURTHOUSE RD location of Brecotea\*\*\***

From Goodreads:
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.

Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

*Never Let Me Go* breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

From Goodreads:

They are an unlikely pair: George is *"small and quick and dark of face";* Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a *"family,"* clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing *Of Mice and Men*, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.

**\*\*\*Please note the meeting location is the MIDLOTHIAN/COURTHOUSE RD location of Brecotea\*\***

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)

Thought this would be a fun, light read! We will meet at the Brecotea near the intersection of Courthouse Rd and Midlothian Turnpike :)

From Goodreads:
*"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you..."*

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.

Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now—reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers—not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.

When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained—and captivated—by their stories.

By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself.

What would he say . . . ?

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (2011)

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