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PLEASE NOTE: THIS GROUP IS MOVING SITES!
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North County Book Club and Book Swap
While there are many meetup book clubs, often they meet in south San Diego county. All are welcome to join this group, but events will be hosted in the geographic area between Encinitas and Oceanside. We will pick 1 book per month, but also plan on having additional events in between - exploring a new book store or favorite reading spot or perhaps an activity that aligns with that months book. We look forward to meeting you and reading together!
How this book club works:
- We will read approximately 1 book/month. Once a month there will be a meeting to discuss the book of the month, but we will have other events scheduled as well in between book discussions!
- Books will be chosen by rotation - each month another member will choose a book. To get added to the rotation, attend a meetup event and we will add you into the "official" rotation!
- There are no dues, but if you decide you would like to be a regular participant, please consider contributing $5/year to offset the annual Meetup membership fees ($200). Thanks!
- Tried to read the book but didn't finish? Read the book but didn't like it? New to the group and didn't have a chance to find the book? No problem - all are welcome to join us!
- All meetings will be in North San Diego county.
- Discussion meet ups will take place on Saturdays at 12 noon.
- If you sign up to choose a book for the month, please make your selection at least 2 months ahead.
- If you are unable to attend the meeting where you are assigned to pick the book, please feel free to switch with another member or contact one of the group's co-organizers to assist.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- October Book Club and Book SwapTin Leaf Fresh Kitchen, Carlsbad, CA
***ALERT! We are moving to a new site. To sign up for this event, please go to:
https://www.meetup.com/north-county-book-club-swap/events/311140987/REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.
“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone
FINALIST FOR THE WILLIE MORRIS AWARD FOR SOUTHERN FICTION
“Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write ’em in your books and show everyone who we are.”
So begins award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her exhausted parents, who work long hours at multiple jobs while still making sure their kids experience the adventure of family vacations; her older sister, who in a house filled with Motown would rather listen to Alanis Morrisette; her retired grandparents, children of Jim Crow, who realized their own vision of success when they bought their house on the Court in the 1960s, imagining it filled with future generations; and the many neighbors who hold tight to the community they’ve built, committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.
