About us
The Literary Coven of Denver is a book club for anyone who loves fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and everything in between. Meetings are held once a month in different locations around Denver to discuss last month's book, and polls are held to determine upcoming books about six weeks out.
Upcoming events
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May's Novel: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Barquentine Brewing Co., 5505 West 20th Avenue, Edgewater, CO, USUPDATE: We have changed our reserved spot in Barquentine Brewing to allow for a bigger event. We now have three of the four tables along the east wall for our group.
***Please join us for a discussion of May's novel: 'City of Brass' by S.A. Chakraborty
Our meetings start loosely as people come in, get settled, and go to acquire what food and beverages they like. After everyone arrives or about a half hour has passed, we officially start the book discussion. Towards the end we set plans for the book poll and future meetings.
This meeting is at Barquentine Brewing Company. The brewery offers a variety of drinks and is part of Edgewater Public Market which has a wide range of small restaurants from which orders can be carried in. Please purchase what you can from Barquentine to be courteous to the company hosting us.
Barquentine Brewing Company
Edgewater Public Market**Please update your RSVP if you change your plans about attending.**
The poll for June selected 'The Sword of Kaigen' by M.L. Wang (2019) - 651 pages.
The coven book history to date.
It will be a joy to see everyone!
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May's book description:
'City of Brass' by S.A. Chakraborty (2017) - 544 pagesNahri has never believed in supernatural magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she is a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healing—are all tricks, both the means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive.
But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to reconsider her beliefs. For Dara tells Nahri an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass―a hidden city of djinn to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
23 attendees
June's Novel: The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
Barquentine Brewing Co., 5505 West 20th Avenue, Edgewater, CO, USPlease join us for a discussion of June's novel: 'The Sword of Kaigen' by M.L. Wang.
Our meetings start loosely as people come in, get settled, and go to acquire what food and beverages they like. After everyone arrives or about a half hour has passed, we officially start the book discussion. Towards the end we set plans for the book poll and future meetings.
This meeting is at Barquentine Brewing Company. The brewery offers a variety of drinks and is part of Edgewater Public Market which has a wide range of small restaurants from which orders can be carried in. Please purchase what you can from Barquentine to be courteous to the company hosting us.
Barquentine Brewing Company
Edgewater Public MarketNote: We are shifting from the barrel room to the tables along the east wall of the main room in Barquentine for this meeting to let us grow.
**Please update your RSVP if you change your plans about attending.**
After the May meeting, a link to our poll for July's book will be posted here.
The coven book history to date.
It will be a joy to see everyone!
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June's book description:
'The Sword of Kaigen' by M.L. Wang (2019) - 651 pagesOn a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay. Born into Kusanagi's legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen's alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.
Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.
When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?
23 attendees
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