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NYC Romcom Book Club 💕: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

At this meeting we will discuss Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall 🧁

The Touch Grass Book Club Meet-Up: Mary Oliver's Upstream

Bring your journal and your sense of wonder (and maybe a pair of binoculars) to the first Touch Grass Book Club meet-up! In this session, we'll be exploring Mary Oliver's iconic essay collection Upstream and then venturing out to do some nature observation and writing of our own. From there, we'll reconvene to discuss what we experienced and learned. Light snacks will be provided! (And if you need help getting a copy of the book, hit me up, and I'll do my best to hook you up.)

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Let’s discuss The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

This month’s read: **As I Lay Dying** by **William Faulkner** Join us to discuss this modernist novel, published in 1930, about a family making their way across rural Mississippi to bury their mother. Told through multiple narrators, the novel explores grief, loyalty, and family relationships. Spaces are limited; RSVP required. You are welcome to participate regardless of whether you've finished the book. Looking forward to seeing you there! **New Attendance Policy:** Because our events often have a waitlist, if you **miss 2 events without updating your RSVP**, you may be removed from the group to give other members the opportunity to attend.

November Book Club: The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott

For our November meetup, we're celebrating some of the **best books thus far!** This will also be **our last book club meetup of 2026 before we break for the holidays**, so we're adding a little something extra to close out the year! ### This Month's Book **The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott** *Three women. Three murderous husbands. One killer mystery.* It's 1966 in sunny California, where Beverley, Elsie, and Margot have something rather unusual in common: they were all married to notorious serial killers. Now trying to rebuild their lives under the weight of scandal and suspicion, the three women form an unlikely friendship. But when a new string of murders rocks their community, they decide to investigate themselves. After all, who better to catch a killer than women who once shared a home with one? Part murder mystery, part female friendship, and full of secrets, this one should give us plenty to talk about! ### 📚 Bonus: Bring a Book, Take a Book! Since this is our last meetup of the year, we're adding a little **book swap** to the fun! Have books sitting on your shelves that you've finished, don't plan to reread, or are ready to donate? Bring them along and give them a second life with a fellow book lover! Bring a book(s), or browse what others have brought. **No pressure to participate!** The swap is completely optional. **When: Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM (Noon)** **Where: Bronx Alehouse** 216 W 238th St, Bronx, NY Whether you've been coming all year or are joining us for the first time, we'd love to see you as we close out our 2026 book club season. **Let's end the year on a high note. See you at noon! 🍻📚**

QQRTT

**Queer Quiet Reading Talk & Trade** **We have launched a new event for our book lovers and those wanting to get more into Queer centered reading.** **Books really do change peoples lives.** **Hosted by Queer Social host Zoe D.** **This event will have:** **-beginning host & guests intro. (Please be early or on time)** **-time for quiet reading** **-discussion on the book section we just consumed** **-book recommendations** **-book swap with other guests if you have a book or books to give away.** **-Community building & connection** **\*\*Paper backs, Hard bound & Kindles Welcome.** **\*\*\*Friends & Allies Welcome.** **\*\*\*\*Please bring book with a LGBTQ topic as the central theme, Fiction or Non-Fiction.**

Manhattan Smutty Book Club - Dearly Departed by Chip Pons

The book for each month will be chosen at the book club before. So come with your suggestions! Please join us at Cornerstone Tavern, 961 2nd Ave, New York, NY (51st and 2nd) for great conversation, laughs, and friendship. Look for our signs, and listen for the laughter. We are often in the back of Cornerstone behind the curtain, which is actually a different restaurant called the Stags Head. We start at 7pm, but feel free to come early before happy hour ends at 7. People usually start to drift in by 6:30pm.

The Women discussion

We will discuss *The Women* by Kristin Hannah on Wed., Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at New Pinang, a Vietnamese restaurant, 111-10 Queens Blvd, on the south side of the boulevard between 75th Ave. and 75th Rd. The 75th Ave. stop on the E and F drains is very close. The menu is available at https://www.newpinang.com/order/main/appetizer. On the left side of that page you can clicki for entrees, soups, rice dishes, etc.

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. Perfectly constructed, funny, and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.

"The Wager," by David Grann

We have some nonfiction for November! The Wager by David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, is a true story about a shipwreck and mutiny off the coast of Patagonia. **From Goodreads:** On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. *The Wager* is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as *The Endurance*, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

"When the Cranes Fly South" by Lisa Ridzén

[Amazon:] INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation. Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company … though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he’s expressed his love over the years.