Brunch and Books

Join us for a cozy morning of good reads and great discussions at our Coffee & Books Meetup! Whether you're a bookworm or looking to explore new genres, this event is the perfect opportunity to relax with like-minded individuals over delicious coffee. Bring along your book recommendations, we will pick the reads for December at this meeting. Our Book Club welcomes readers of all interests and backgrounds, creating a welcoming space to connect through the love of reading. Come sip, chat, and indulge in the joy of reading with us at Brunch and Books!

We will be reading The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

Beckett,

If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.

My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair.

And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help.

So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.

Please don’t make her go through it alone.

Ryan

Join us for a cozy morning of good reads and great discussions at our Coffee & Books Meetup! Whether you're a bookworm or looking to explore new genres, this event is the perfect opportunity to relax with like-minded individuals over delicious coffee. Bring along your book recommendations, we will pick the read for December at this meeting. Our Book Club welcomes readers of all interests and backgrounds, creating a welcoming space to connect through the love of reading. Come sip, chat, and indulge in the joy of reading with us at Brunch and Books!

We will be reading Educated by Tara Westover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard.

Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.