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A biweekly book club for open-minded and progressive readers in Atlanta and the North to Northwest Metro Area — from Midtown Atlanta to Roswell to Vinings. Looking forward to good books, great food, and even better conversations! We're planning to read across all genres and have thoughtful conversations with like-minded book lovers over meals at local restaurants. Whether you're here for the prose, the politics, or the pasta, pull up a chair and let's get reading!
Featured event
The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh (Novels & Nibbles - August 2026 - 1 of 2)
Join us on Friday, August 14th at 7:00 PM at CT Reforma Taqueria in Buckhead as we take on the first stretch of The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh, reading Chapters 1 through 19 and stopping right before the section marked "Thursday." Come hungry and ready to talk, and we'll get a table sorted once everyone rolls in.
This one is a neo-western, so expect the dusty small-town setting and the standoff energy without the horses-and-saloons era. It takes place in a remote Texas town officially called Caesura, though everyone living there just calls it the Blinds. The catch is that the residents are all former criminals or witnesses who had their memories wiped and got handed new identities, a sort of last-chance witness protection where nobody knows whether they did something terrible or only watched it happen. Leaving isn't really on the table if you want to stay alive. Holding the whole thing together, more or less, is Sheriff Calvin Cooper, who has kept an uneasy peace for years until a suicide and a murder show up close together and the place starts to come apart. It gets into memory, identity, and guilt, and whether anyone really gets a clean shot at starting over, and it's got a noir, thriller edge with a dark streak running through it.
The setup alone should give us plenty to talk about, from how the town actually runs to what we make of Cooper and the people he's watching.
Learn more or grab a copy:
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600769-the-blinds
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blinds-Novel-Adam-Sternbergh/dp/0062661345
RSVP soon so we can give CT Reforma Taqueria a final headcount.
Upcoming events
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Novels & Nibbles - July 2026 - 2 of 2)
Ruby Chow's, 620 Glen Iris Dr NE Unit C-1, Atlanta, GA, USJoin us on Friday, July 31st at 7:00 PM at Ruby Chow's in Old 4th Ward as we take on the entirety of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Come hungry and ready to talk, and we'll grab a table together.
Here's the setup for this month: Alias Grace is built around a real case from 1843, when a teenage servant named Grace Marks was convicted in the murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. Years into her life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the day the killings happened, and opinion is split on whether she's innocent, calculating, or something harder to pin down. A doctor named Simon Jordan, working in the still-young field of mental illness, begins meeting with her to coax out those missing memories, and the book moves between his sessions and the story Grace tells him about her own life.
Learn more or grab a copy:
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72579.Alias_Grace
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385490445
RSVP soon so we can give Sotto Sotto a solid headcount.
7 attendeesThe Blinds by Adam Sternbergh (Novels & Nibbles - August 2026 - 1 of 2)
CT Reforma Taqueria, 3699 Lenox Rd NE Ste. #4,, Atlanta, GA, USJoin us on Friday, August 14th at 7:00 PM at CT Reforma Taqueria in Buckhead as we take on the first stretch of The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh, reading Chapters 1 through 19 and stopping right before the section marked "Thursday." Come hungry and ready to talk, and we'll get a table sorted once everyone rolls in.
This one is a neo-western, so expect the dusty small-town setting and the standoff energy without the horses-and-saloons era. It takes place in a remote Texas town officially called Caesura, though everyone living there just calls it the Blinds. The catch is that the residents are all former criminals or witnesses who had their memories wiped and got handed new identities, a sort of last-chance witness protection where nobody knows whether they did something terrible or only watched it happen. Leaving isn't really on the table if you want to stay alive. Holding the whole thing together, more or less, is Sheriff Calvin Cooper, who has kept an uneasy peace for years until a suicide and a murder show up close together and the place starts to come apart. It gets into memory, identity, and guilt, and whether anyone really gets a clean shot at starting over, and it's got a noir, thriller edge with a dark streak running through it.
The setup alone should give us plenty to talk about, from how the town actually runs to what we make of Cooper and the people he's watching.
Learn more or grab a copy:
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600769-the-blinds
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blinds-Novel-Adam-Sternbergh/dp/0062661345
RSVP soon so we can give CT Reforma Taqueria a final headcount.
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