We'll be meeting at Zoka Coffee Shop in University Village at 6:30pm on Tuesday April 14th.
2901 NE Blakeley Street
Seattle, Wa
98105
Join the NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Millennial Advisory Council for coffee and a discussion of our April Book Club pick, Americanah: a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.
About Americanah:
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender Americanah is a remarkable novel of race, love, and identity.
Bring your friends!
The North Seattle Book Club is an informal social book club looking for avid readers interested in a fun book group!
We meet on the third Tuesday of the month in the Wallingford neighborhood. Previously known as the Ballard Book Club, we've been meeting since 2005. We welcome adult members of all ages. Meetings are conducted in an informal roundtable format. We read books available in soft cover to help keep member costs down. Reading selections are made by consensus of attending members. Mostly we read contemporary fiction with the occasional foray into classic literature and current non-fiction.
Here are some of the recent titles we have read: The Sisters Brothers, Small Island, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Sacred Hunger, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, Empire of the Summer Moon, The Orchardist, The Satanic Verses, The Light Between Oceans.
Upcoming books for late Winter/ Spring 2014 include The Round House, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, and The Namesake.
Please email with any questions and for information on how to join.
HAPPY READING!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever cried while laughing or laughed while crying?
Underrated books with undercooked humor. Unrepentant souls and soulless intellectuals rejoice or cry. Not for hollow heads only hollow people
Some literary examples include The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch, and more contemporaneously The Ask, Sam Lipsyte.
The club drink of choice:
A shot in the dark.
Please check out the Goodreads website bookshelves:
Black Coffee and Black Humor
I envision a group in which people read, bring, share, and discusss poetry which moves and excites them. I am flexible as the exact format and am open to ideas. I know I want to meet, weekly or monthly depending on interest, to discuss poetry and poems. I have made a Facebook page on which I also plan to post events for this group: https://m.facebook.com/talkpoems/
Once I get garner enough interest I will update. Thank you.
This book club is open to both males and females. We will meet monthly and together choose the book for the next meeting. We will choose a meeting place, one that has food and drink options. We will have an informal discussion of the book followed by a social time to get to know each other. As we progress, field trips and other gatherings are options. The requirements are that the members read the book before each meeting, be as prompt as possible, be prepared for a discussion and have a book option for the following month.