About us
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We read books and meet to talk about them. All genders and orientations are welcome, so long as you actually read the book (or at least some of it).
About a dozen readers showing up to our events, more in the winter, less in the summer (notwithstanding the 1000+ Meetup members we have).
Check out our Past Events to see the sorts of books we choose: Always fiction, often queer and contemporary, at times young adult or a classic.
Upcoming events
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Valid by Chris Bergeron
Barquentine Brewing Company, 5505 W 20th Ave Suite 178, Edgewater, CO, US# Valid
### Chris Bergeron, Natalia Hero (Translator)
at 1pm on May 10, 2026 ( yes, Mother’s Day) we will meet at Barquentine to discuss “Valid” by Chris Bergeron.
From Goodreads:
A genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, Valid shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution. This is a mutiny. If our mutiny is to succeed, I must name things well, without diversion. Lacking this, you will not deviate from your certainties. Here it is: I am trans. As in transgression. I have broken genres. I have removed myself from the rules. I am trans. As in translation. I have dragged the elements that make up my person from one state to another. My geometry is variable. And tonight, I am a revolution. /warning: code red… fetch-query protocol enabled… transmission failed… standby/ Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.5 attendees
The Book of Doors
Barquentine Brewing Company, 5505 W 20th Ave Suite 178, Edgewater, CO, USAt 1pm on June 14, 2026 at Barquentine, we will discuss "The Book of Doors" by Gareth Brown. From Goodreads:
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fantasy (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Debut Novel (2024)If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?
In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book—an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door.
What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.
But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals—individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.
Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons—a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all...
Because some doors should never be opened.
3 attendees
Past events
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