Book Swaps San Francisco

Books Not Bans presents No Homework Book Club

At the No Homework Book Club we read a story together, and talk about it. The story is available online for free. We will have discussion questions prepared. Book people are the best people. All welcome! We will be reading The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin. Link: https://reactormag.com/the-city-born-great//

May · Cuba · The Tyranny of Flies

For May, we're reading the novel The Tyranny of Flies by Elaine Vilar Madruga (Cuba). Please see the Goodreads link for the complete description: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199865473-the-tyranny-of-flies?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199865473-the-tyranny-of-flies?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13). 256 pages, audiobook and e-book available.

The Swapping of the Books📚

Let’s swap some books and hang out with fellow book lovers! Maybe have a beer or two. Bring at least one book to swap, and make sure to take any books back with you that don’t get taken. We look forward to seeing you all there!

East Bay Women's Book Club May Meetup: Best Offer Wins

Hello, fellow female readers -- The book for the May Meetup is 'Best Offer Wins,' by Marisa Kashino, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and An ELLE Best Mystery/Thriller. For those of you who are new, I will send out the address to my house by Monday, May 18. Looking forward to gathering together and discussing the book. Bonnie

Mixed Bag at Belmont Story Swap

Please know that an RSVP here on Meetup MEANS NOTHING. You need to go to www.StorySAC.org to get the details on how to join the Story Swap on Zoom. DO NOT RSVP HERE!! Our Zooming story swap welcomes ready listeners, eager tellers, & would-be tellers. Come try us out. Contact: email Linda Walls: lindaglennlee@yahoo.com

Comic Swap @ Snow Park

Book, Coffee, Chit Chat, etc. (Tuesday Edition)

ATTENTION: We are now meeting in person again! Please follow current recommendations around mask usage to keep everyone safe. Masks are always welcome and accepted, no matter the current regulations. If you'd like to meet online check out our meeting on the first Wednesday of every month. It's that time again! Let's chit chat about the books we exchanged last time and welcome newcomers bringing their first book. If you've been before you know the deal, otherwise just bring a book to share and expect to say both a few words about it and why you want to share it.

May Meeting: Octavia Butler - Bloodchild and Other Stories

**Recommended Stories:** * Bloodchild * The Evening and the Morning and the Night * Speech Sounds Octavia Butler -- need we say more? Super excited for this one! **For First-Timers:** We recommend reading at least one story, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above. **About Butler:** Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a visionary "Grand Dame of Science Fiction" who broke barriers as the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Rising from a working-class background in California, she became a master of "speculative fiction," using alien worlds and dystopian futures to explore visceral themes of power, racial hierarchy, and human survival. Her work is celebrated for its unflinching realism and its focus on marginalized protagonists who must make complex, often uncomfortable sacrifices to endure in a changing world.

(4th Saturday Richmond District Edition). Books, Coffee, Chit Chat

Bring what you’re reading and we’ll have an interesting group conversation (novels, non-fiction, essays, poetry, romance, cookbooks, science fiction & fantasy, etc.) This “4th Saturday Richmond District Edition” is designed to accommodate the overflow from Emily’s 2nd Saturday Richmond District Book Chat. If you are not able to attend Emily’s Group, then please feel free to join this 4th Saturday version. We meet in the back patio of Bazaar Café (lovely place). If it rains, we’ll meet inside the Café.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Discuss Neuromancer by William Gibson

Lot by Bryan Washington

For the next meeting of A Queer Book Club we'll be reading and discussing Bryan Washington's debut collection Lot! From the publisher: **One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”** **“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review** **NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner** **A New York Times Notable Book of 2019** *In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys.* *Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.* *Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, raw power, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.*

Reading Group #29: Zoom In!

Thank you to everyone who voted for papers! We'll be reading a [Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits](https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/), by Olah et al. (Anthropic) - an interpretability paper which was a close second for our March session. Please comment if you'd like us to have a videoconference setup to dial into. We tend to keep it open for the first 15-30 minutes then shut it down if no-one has joined (having a huge screen on in the room showing physical attendees is a bit distracting)