Armchair Adventure Book Club: Select Books for 2025

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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Tempe Public Library
3500 S Rural Rd, Tempe, AZ 85282
Ironwood Room

Hosted by Tempe resident bibliophile Tracy Sobers

Special Format: Every month the book club reads one book and discusses it at the book club meeting. But this month, there will be no book selection.

Instead: We will briefly review the books we have read during the past year (2024). Then we will discuss books to read during the upcoming year. We WILL make decisions as a group about books to read during upcoming months. So be sure to bring your suggestions!

This is the perfect event to attend if you have been interested in the book club, but have not yet attended a meeting.

The plan is to have an informal reception with snacks/refreshments/desserts/hors d'oeuvres beginning at 6:00 PM, and begin the meeting officially at 6:30 PM.

What to Bring? You do not need to bring anything. But if you have a book you have read and want to recommend it for a future book club selection, feel free to bring it to show the group.

Optional: Bring Snacks: We normally do not have food or snacks at book club meetings. But for this special meeting, the hosts will be bringing refreshments, and all those who attend are invited to bring snacks or refreshments to share.

Who? This is a fun book club event that men and women from the neighborhood potluck list are invited to, along with everybody else who is interested.

Fun Book Club: This will be the 29th monthly meeting of this book club. We had so much fun at the all of the meetings so far, with wonderful, fascinating discussions with great neighbors and new friends. If you like books or interesting discussions... or simply want to have fun meeting new people, I highly recommend RSVP-ing for this event.

In reverse chronological order, here are the monthly book club selections that we read during 2024:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel James Brown
A Step Away From Paradise: The True Story of a Tibetan Lama's Journey to a Land of Immortality - Thomas K. Shor
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat - Bee Wilson
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
Good Night, Irene - Luis Alberto Urrea
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
The Book Club - Mary Alice Munroe
The Silence: A Novel - Don DeLillo

To RSVP, use your standard PotluckDinner.org RSVP buttons, or use the form at the top of this page, or email: rsvp@potluckdinner.org [or] text: 480-269-5823

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