
What we’re about
Do you love books? Love discussing books? Eating out? Come and join our camaraderie and share a meal and book discussion We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30m to eat and discuss books. We have a Goodreads site managed by Nina and Rachel.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/131717
Goodreads is best accessed using a browser rather than a mobile device - this allows you to see all the Bookclubs book
Each meeting you attend is $2.00 to cover the cost of maintaining the website. Meetings are typically attended by 15-20 depending on the restaurant. The large group breaks down into several smaller informal groups to facilitate easier discussion during the meeting
A moderator prepares questions for the book being discussed. The moderator also chooses 3-4 books for the group to vote for an upcoming month. Being a moderator is a voluntary position. If you would like to be a moderator but need help, let me know and I can assist you.
Rules of engagement
RSVPS open about 2 weeks before the meeting and closes the day before the meeting. If you do not get on the list do not despair. Put yourself on the waitlist and read the book. Many times, life happens, and someone will change their RSVP and a spot will become available. You will receive an email letting you know the spot is available. By the same token, if you find you cannot attend, PLEASE change your RSVP. The system will then send an email to someone on the waitlist. Putting a message on the board does not count. The RSVP must be changed or the next person on the waitlist does not get their email. It is very sad to have a waitlist and members not showing for the meeting. Restaurant will only allow us to reserve a limited number of seats. We need to keep those seats full, or restaurants will not want to deal with us.
Emergencies happen short notice please email through the system if any emergencies/special situation arise CherylAnn
Upcoming events (4)
See all- Saint Petersburg Meetup May Book club... $3.00 donation per meetingNeeds location
# Tell Me Everything Elizabeth Strout
MODERATOR: Diane H.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
- Saint Petersburg Meetup June Book club... $3.00 donation per meetingNeeds location
# Spilled Milk K.L. Randis
MODERATOR NEEDED: Please contact Becky or Tara if you will be a moderator. We will give you a guidelines sheet. Thank you !
Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home.
When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father’s secret, it’s a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she’s been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home.
When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.
Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency.
- Saint Petersburg Meetup July Book club... $3.00 donation per meetingNeeds location
# Tara Road Maeve Binchy
MODERATOR: Tara C.
With each new book, Maeve Binchy continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. "Tara Road," her first full-length novel since "The Glass Lake," again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves. Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.
A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master artisan, "Tara Road" is Maeve Binchy at her very best — utterly beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and wholly enjoyable.