What we’re about
Welcome to all you ladies who are 40+! It is your time to get out of the house and expand your mind with some great literature and food for thought! We are here:
*to share your thoughts and ideas over a book that you HAVE to talk about
*to start reading all those books you've been wanting to read
*to read a book that goes deeper than the latest fluff
*to get out of the house to have an adult conversation
*to start new friendships
We will meet once a month at our favorite coffee/wine bar. It is a great place to grab a drink or tasty snack as we mull over our book of the month. Our book choices will range from classic literature, current best sellers, and cult favorites. Some of my favorite reads have been from a genre I would not have tried!
So let's open the pages and start The Next Chapter!
Upcoming events (3)
See all- SAY NOTHING by Patrick Radden KeefeMugshots Coffee Company, Bloomington, MN
Let's read the book before watching Hulu's mini-series!
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland interprets the Irish “Troubles” in which clashing state and paramilitary forces in Northern Ireland fought an unofficial ethno-nationalist war. Though the monograph is a work of non-fiction investigative journalism, it unfolds like a murder mystery, focusing on the case of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) abducted and secretly killed in 1972. The complicated socio-politics of the Troubles, however, do not lend themselves to a straightforward plot. The history is complicated by a culture of silence, secrecy, and the muddy inaccuracies of human memory, all of which Keefe explores throughout the book. The New York Times named Say Nothing one of the “10 Best Books of 2019.”
- THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY by Elif ShafakMugshots Coffee Company, Bloomington, MN
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” Winston Churchill.
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time.Through the journey of a single drop of water across time, the book explores the stories of three people across countries and cultures: an Englishman born by the River Thames in the 19th century, a Yazidi girl who lives by the Tigris River in 2014, and a Turkish English hydrologist in England in 2018. The book explores themes of the cyclical and interconnected nature of life and water, the impact of ancient texts on modern lives, and cultural plunder in historical discovery and archaeological excavation.
