
What we’re about
This book club for people who love coffee (or tea) and reading literature. Our focus is on contemporary fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, narrative nonfiction, and science fiction. 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 encouraged to bring book club suggestions to our meetings. Requirements:
- Fiction or narrative nonfiction
- Available at the public library in paperback and audiobook
- Less than 400 pages
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- Short Book: Foster by Claire KeeganGrouchy John's Coffee, Las Vegas, NV
This month’s bonus book is the historical fiction novella Foster by Claire Keegan (128 pages). It was originally published as a short story, then expanded into a novella. In 2023 it was published in the U.S. for the first time.
Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US.
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household--where everything is so well tended to--and this summer must soon come to an end.
A story of astonishing emotional depth now expanded and newly revised in a standalone edition, Foster showcases Claire Keegan's great talent and cements her reputation as one of our most important and prodigious storytellers.
A donation of $1 per meetup to cover Meetup.com expenses is suggested.
- 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).
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.