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Join other book lovers for adventures in reading and real life! LOVE TO READ AND TRY NEW ACTIVITIES?
Join this unique book club where we will casually discuss a book while engaging in an activity or exploring a location inspired by the book! This will be a no-pressure book club. If you don't finish the book or didn't like it, no problem. Please join us anyway for a meal and an event. We’d love to get to know you!
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Audrey, the club founder also posts regularly on books and book pairings on Instagram via @thenoveltourist
This will be a great way to meet fellow book lovers who also want to live a well-read and well-rounded, adventurous life. Most of the activities will take place in and around Cecil and Harford Counties and surrounding areas. Sometimes we will branch out to further areas.
Are you ready for a new book and a new activity? Grab that book (or eBook) and let's go explore together!
Diane and Audrey
Upcoming events (3)
See all- EVENT: BOHEMIA MANOR FARM/READ: "THE MIDNIGHT FEAST" BY LUCY FOLEYChateau Bu-De Winery, Bohemia Manor Farm, Chesapeake City, MD
We'll be hanging out on the beach at Bohemia "Manor" Farm for lunch, wine and discussion of this month’s book pick.
Wear comfortable, summer clothes as we'll be outside.
WHERE: Bohemia Manor Farm/Augie's on the Boh
237 Bohemia Manor Farm Lane
Chesapeake City, MD
410.885.2500ABOUT the farm/winery
TIME: 12:00 to 2:00 PM
NOVEL: "The Midnight Feast" by Lucy Foley
FROM GOODREADS: It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Something’s not right with the guests. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered.
THE FOUNDER * THE HUSBAND * THE MYSTERY GUEST * THE KITCHEN HELP
It all began with a secret, fifteen years ago. Now the past has crashed the party. And it’ll end in murder at… The Midnight Feast.
Happy Reading
Diane
- July’s Member Choice Book! 📕 Winner! Online Discussion The Boxcar Librarian 🚂Link visible for attendees
July’s book!!! The clear winner was The Boxcar Librarian as the July member choice book for the theme “Transportation.” Woot woot!
Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman’s quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library—a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana.
Our online discussion will be the last Monday of July at 7 PM! The event with zoom link will be posted soon!
Stay tuned for the paired inperson adventure related to the book.
This is our online book club discussion night (always the last Monday of each month). Zoom link will be posted on the day of the event.
📚NOVEL: The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
Genre: Historical Fiction
Transportation: TrainWhen Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she’s shipped off to Montana to work on the state’s American Guide Series—travel books intended to put the nation’s destitute writers to work.
Millie arrives to an eclectic staff claiming their missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly from the state’s powerful Copper Kings who don’t want their long and bloody history with union organizers aired for the rest of the country to read. But Millie begins to suspect that the answer might instead lie with the town’s mysterious librarian, Alice Monroe.
More than a decade earlier, Alice Monroe created the Boxcar Library in order to deliver books to isolated mining towns where men longed for entertainment and connection. Alice thought she found the perfect librarian to staff the train car in Colette Durand, a miner’s daughter with a shotgun and too many secrets behind her eyes.
Now, no one in Missoula will tell Millie why both Alice and Colette went out on the inaugural journey of the Boxcar Library, but only Alice returned.
The three women’s stories dramatically converge in the search to uncover what someone is so desperately trying to hide: what happened to Colette Durand.
Happy Reading!
Diane and Audrey-------------------The below is silly babble just for the algorithm - no need for book club members to read this!-------------------------------
Reading books everywhere including in cecil county Maryland neighborhoods is such a fun way to make new friends and be social with book loving book club members who like to read and explore urban areas and try new activities such as hiking, reading, craft, hobbies, museums and more! It's especially fun for a book club to go on outdoor and indoor adventures with all the book club friends who like to explore and try new hobbies and discuss books and be always - August's Winning Book! 📚Online discussion of A Betting Woman!🃏Needs location
The votes are in and I bet 😉🤓you can't wait to join us for our online discussion! That's right! Ya'll chose A Betting Woman by Jenni L. Walsh as our Member Choice pick for August. Join us for our online discussion as always on the last Monday of the month at 7pm.
Born Simone Jules, reinvented as Eleanor Dumont, and largely remembered as Madame Moustache, “A Betting Woman” is a historical novel inspired by the tumultuous life, times, and loves of America's first professional croupier of modern-day blackjack, bringing to life an intrepid and entrepreneurial real-life woman who lived on her own terms
‼️Stay tuned for the paired in-person adventure! It's definitely in the cards...😉
Zoom link will be posted on the day of the event.
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📚🔖NOVEL: A Betting Woman by Jenni L. Walsh
Genre: Historical Fiction"A rollicking ride of a story.” — New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis
When her whole family dies in a fire, young Simone flees her grief and travels west to reinvent herself in burgeoning San Francisco. Down to her last dollar and facing some unsavory options, Simone quick-wits her way to a gambling table where she begins to deal vingt-et-un—modern-day blackjack. Word travels fast among of this French-speaking, card-playing novelty, and she begins to build a new life for herself.
A gripping and endearing tale, A Betting Woman brings to life an intrepid and entrepreneurial female who lived on her own terms... a Molly's Game for lovers of the American West. Fans of Thelma Adams, Therese Anne Fowler, and Marie Benedict will root for the quick-witted, charming, and self-sufficient Eleanor as she paves her way in a man’s world and into the pages of history.
Happy Reading!
Audrey and Diane❓Event Review Guidance:
Meetup reviews are now public. Did you love the event? Tell the world with a 5-star rating AND a comment!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I love putting together fun literary adventures and your comments feed my soul. But, if you didn't like something, please don’t submit a negative review — instead, message me (Diane) directly with your suggestions so we can improve the club together! Also, please remember, you’re reviewing the club experience, not the location. So, for instance, if we go to a play and you didn’t like it, don’t give the Meetup event a negative, it’s not my fault the play stunk. I can’t change what I can’t control.--------------------------------------------------------
------------------The below is silly babble just for the algorithm - no need for book club members to read this!-------------------------------
Reading books everywhere including in Cecil County and neighborhoods is such a fun way to make new friends and be social with passions with book loving book club members who like to read and explore urban areas and try new activities and hobbies such as hiking, reading, craft, hobbies, museums and more! It's especially fun for a book club to go on outdoor and indoor adventures with all the book club friends who like to explore and try new hobbies and discuss books and be always social
