Book Club
If you’re here I know you love to read a good book but isn’t reading more exciting when you’re able to read with a group of friends while discussing and reflecting what you read keeping the story alive. Join Books and Black Coffee’s online virtual book club!
#BookClubFam Monthly Subscription $25/month (Subscription is what gives you access to the book club!)
- All paperback choices of the month will be free, hardcovers will be 50% off
- Free shipping
- Ability to deactivate and reactivate subscription at any time
Whereas a collective we decide which bestsellers is our book of choice for the month. This will also create a unique experience by getting you away from your comfort zone by choosing a different genre than you would normally purchase to read and openly discuss. We will host a video meeting using Microsoft Teams the last Thursday of every month to have an engaging and open discussion of what was read the previous weeks. We will also have reading challenges during selective months.
Please don’t be shy and feel free to bring your own drink of choice to the meeting whether it’s coffee, wine, or water.
If you think you’ll make a great host please send us an email at info@booksandblkcoffee.com letting us know why and how you’ll make the book club a comfortable, fun space.
Books We’ve Read Together
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
Currently Reading
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.
November 9 – Colleen Hoover
Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?
When No One Is Watching – Alyssa Cole
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block – her neighbor, Theo. But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.
Small Doses – Amanda Seales
Comedian, writer, actress, and social media star Amanda Seales is a force of nature who has fearlessly and passionately charted her own course through life and career. Now, in her one-of-a-kind voice that blends academic intellectualism, Black American colloquialisms, and pop culture fanaticism, she’s bringing her life’s lessons and laughs to the page. This volume of essays, axioms, original illustrations, and photos provides Seales’s trademark “self-help from the hip” style of commentary, fueled by ideology formed from her own victories, struggles, research, mistakes, risks, and pay-offs. Unapologetic, fiercely funny, and searingly honest, Small Doses engages, empowers, and enlightens readers on how to find their truths while still finding the funny!
Book Club Signup
#BookClubFam starts October 2022, if interested sign up here:
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