What we’re about
This book club for people who love coffee (or tea) and reading literature. We are open to reading various genres: contemporary fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, mystery, narrative nonfiction, and science fiction.
All books starting with our October 2025 selection, are chosen at our meetings. Requirements:
- Fiction or narrative nonfiction
- Available at the public library in paperback and audiobook
- Goodreads rating of at least 4.0
Please read the book before the meeting. It’s okay if you don’t finish; come anyway to talk about it but there will be spoilers.
Members are welcome to jump in at any point. Anyway, come join us and see what it's all about.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionGrouchy John's Coffee, Las Vegas, NV
This month’s book is the contemporary novel The Rosie Project by Graeme Samson (292 pages).
FYI: the ebook is also available from Amazon Kindle Unlimited.
From Goodreads:
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.
The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.
A donation of $1 per meetup to cover Meetup.com expenses is suggested.
- News of the World by Paulette JilesGrouchy John's Coffee, Las Vegas, NV
This month’s book is the historical fiction novel News of the World by Paulette Jiles (209 pages). It was also made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.
FYI: it was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks
From Goodreads:
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.
Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
A donation of $1 per meetup to cover Meetup.com expenses is suggested.
