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Hey Folks! I'm new to the area and don't have a car so I wanted to create a book club that's easy to get to. I'm planning to have a meeting once or twice a month around the Rittenhouse area. You don't have to live around here to join as long as you can make it.
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Hope to see you soon!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareRittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
Hi Folks,
I saw the trailer for this one and thought it looked pretty interesting:
"In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong...
With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned."
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®"With a churning plot worthy of Agatha Christie, and fresh on the heels of her bestselling thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware twists the wire on readers’ nerves once again. “Cabin 10” just may do to cruise vacations what “Jaws” did to ocean swimming."
Minneapolis Star Tribune"[A] snappy thriller set on the high seas... The first chapter will grab your attention, force it against a wall and hold it there until the end.
Associated PressLocation: Rittenhouse Square (On the Walnut Street Side between 18th and 19th St. Opposite the new restaurant Borromini (where B&N used to be).
- Exit Zero: Stories by Marie-Helene BertinoRittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
Hi Folks,
Been wanting to read a short story collection and this one also looks like a good Halloween read:
"Blending seemingly mundane yet emotionally charged fragments of life with backyard unicorns, ghosts and a vampire (or two), this mélange of literary fiction and sci-fi makes all twelve unique tales a treat.
Death-shaped entities—with all of their humor and strangeness— haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino."
Exit Zero: Stories by Marie-Helene Bertino, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
“[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician . . . Dazzling.” —Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review(Editors’ Choice)
"Ardently whimsical, yet never centerless—solid stories about our tenuous times."
Kirkus ReviewsLocation: Rittenhouse Square (On the Walnut Street Side between 18th and 19th St. Opposite the new restaurant Borromini (where B&N used to be).
