Book Drives New York

Linden Silent Book Club: July Meetup

📚 Linden Silent Book Club: July Reading Meetup Join us for a relaxing Saturday of reading, community and bookish conversation! Date: Saturday, July 25 Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Location: Inspo Nutrition, 27 E Elizabeth Ave., Linden, NJ 07036 Schedule: 11:00 – 11:30 AM 📖 Arrive, settle in, grab a drink or snack and chat with fellow readers 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 🤫 Silent reading hour (B.Y.O.Book) 12:30 – 1:00 PM 💬 Optional discussion about what you're reading, book recommendations and general conversation Whether you're halfway through a physical novel, listening to an audiobook, reading manga or diving into nonfiction, all readers are welcome. Come as you are and enjoy a calm morning of books and community 📚 All readers welcome • No assigned reading • Free to attend

Booze & Books in Brooklyn

In addition to draft beers, **LoFi Bar in Park Slope** features craft cocktails, curated wines, and small bites. Non-alcoholic options are also available. Bring your latest read (and maybe a book light!) and **enjoy $1 off all drinks**. **[LoFi Bar](https://www.lofibrooklyn.com/)** is conveniently located near the F/G/R lines. Please note, this is not a private event and LoFi will be open to the public. **There is seating available for 40 people, available on a first-come basis.**

July Meetup: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Hey Book Friends! July is all about books that take us somewhere new. This month’s theme, Books Abroad, celebrates stories that transport us through different countries, cultures, and perspectives. Think vacation energy in book form. 📖 **This Month’s Theme: Books Abroad** 🌍 📘 **Book Pick:** **The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George** Set in Paris and the south of France, this internationally bestselling novel follows Monsieur Perdu, a bookseller who believes there is a perfect book for every heartache. From his floating bookstore on the Seine, he prescribes stories to his customers, but struggles to heal his own wounds. When he finally sets off on a journey through the French countryside, what follows is a warm, thoughtful adventure filled with books, friendship, self-discovery, and beautiful scenery. Perfect for book lovers and anyone dreaming of a summer escape to France. 📅 Date & Time Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 1 PM 📍 Location Bronx Alehouse 216 W 238th St, Bronx, NY Whether you're a longtime member or thinking about joining for the first time, we'd love to have you. Grab a copy, pour yourself a glass of wine, and meet us in France this July. 🇫🇷📚

Saturday Afternoon at Brooklyn Public Library

Spend an afternoon reading with us at a jewel of Kings County — **[Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library](https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central)!** Bring a book or choose one of the many titles at the main branch of the library. We’ll socialize and read in the **Info Commons Training Lab** which **seats 50 people available on a first-come basis**.

The Bluest Eye discussion

**PLEASE NOTE:** The date of this meeting has been changed from the flyer sent at the beginning of the year. It is now **JULY 29**. We will discuss *The Bluest Eye* by Toni Morrison on Wed., July 29 at 7 p.m. at Omakase Ramen, 95-34 Queens Blvd., Rego Park. It's on the south side of Queens Blvd. between 63rd Ave. and 63rd Drive, just west of the 63rd/Rego Park stop on the R and M trains. The Q60 bus stops nearby. You can see the menu at https://www.omakaseramentogo.com/.

July 2026 Book Club: Great Big Beautiful Life

"Skippy Dies," by Paul Murray

Our fourth-place pick is our longest book yet! This one comes in at \~660 pages so there's an extra week between meetings to finish it. Our sister book club (the long reads group) loved The Bee Sting by the same author, so we have high hopes for this one! **From Goodreads:** A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopelessness out of life, love, mermaids, M-theory, the poetry of Robert Graves, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love? Or could "the Automator", the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school, have something to hide? Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin "MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketball-playing midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamont

Start your weekend at New York Historical's library

The [New York Historical](https://www.nyhistory.org/) invites you to the Reading Room of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library! Even though we are meeting in the museum's library, there will not be books available for you to silently read. **Please bring your own book.** Sometimes the museum has events that can be noisy. If you have trouble reading with noise in the background, you may want to bring headphones. **IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR FINDING THE GROUP INSIDE THE NY HISTORICAL** 1. Enter the building through the Central Park West entrance and go through Admissions, where you will get an entry sticker. 2. You may be asked for a donation but it’s Pay As You Wish so you may pay as much or as little as you like. 3. Once you get the sticker, you may head up the grand staircase opposite Admissions. 4. As soon as you get to the second floor, you'll see the entrance to the Reading Room on the left. We'll have a sign noting the room is reserved for Silent Book Club. Readers are welcome to **hang out in the Museum until closing at 8:00 PM**. **About the library** The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library is one of the oldest, most distinguished research libraries in the United States and a vital center of research into the history of New York and the nation. The Library's historic Reading Room has been a key stop for generations of scholars and researchers.

Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth

One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. It was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.

It’s No joke it’s April new book club book It Girl ..Allison Pataki

Okay so many of our members are 9-5 during weekdays and miss our mall walks in preparation for our outdoor activities for evening and weekends this spring So while we wait on Mother Nature Let’s exercise our mind. I’ve selected The book “It Girl” The story of the original Gibson girl the woman who captured the imagination of new yorkers while Becoming the face of beauty but the rise to the top was filled with heart ache ,pain determation and murder, encountering power hungry men , and the crime of the century . This book will lead to a future trip to learn more about the real life inspiration for this book Meetup time frame for book readers is April 1 st to end of may. But site won’t allow that to be posted. So please write finish date I. Your personal calendar

Bookworms Back at Melting Cups (Queens)

The bookworms will be back at Melting Cups to kick off August after a hiatus. Join us on **Saturday morning** **(10 am)** at **[Melting Cups Café](https://www.meltingcups.com/)** Arrive, grab a drink ☕️, pastry 🥐 or both, and settle in the art gallery area (back) where the comfy couches are. Around 10:30 a.m., we’ll have casual introductions sharing what books we are reading. 📖🤓 We’ll wrap up by noon when the café gets busier. We'll try to keep this a recurring event every month or so.