What we’re about
This is a group for people in the KOP and surrounding area to read and discuss books together. We meet once a month on the last Thursday of each month. Books are voted on via poll so all members have a say in what we read.
This club is inclusive and open to everyone. I look forward to reading with you all!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleySly Fox Tap House & Eatery, Malvern, PA
For April, we will read The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.
We will meet in the side room at Sly Fox which is to the right of when you walk in. The room accommodates up to 20, so up to 10 people who are on the waitlist will still be able to join! That being said, please keep your RSVPs up to date. Repeated no shows will be removed from the group.
Goodreads link to the book here and synopsis below:
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteBald Birds Brewing Com., Audubon , PA
For May, we will read the contemporary fiction novel My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
Goodreads page found here and synopsis below:
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead.
Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.
Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.
