What we’re about
Welcome to our book club for adults who like to read in multiple genres and multiple age groups. We intentionally include diversity in our reading, including authors of color.
Please send me a message in MU if you're interested in hosting a book club meeting, if you have a book recommendation, or if you know of a venue where we could hold a meeting. We're always looking for new fun places conducive to conversation and fun.
Submit your suggestions for books to read in 2025
Helping Things Run Smoothly:
1. Respect all group members and their opinions.
Since reading and text interpretations are subjective, everyone will have their own opinion. Listening respectfully with an open mind allows us to share our thoughts without negativity.
2. Be considerate and respectful in your words and actions.
We may discuss topics with many differences of opinion. It’s important to understand that we’ve all had unique experiences over our lives, and those experiences affect our points of view. Don’t assume that a person has bad intentions. Instead, respectfully listen to their opinion with an open mind and heart, and then ask questions and/or offer your opinion, so that we can try to understand where we’re all coming from.
3. Let everyone have a chance to speak.
We’d like to hear everyone’s opinion. If the moderator notes that you’re frequently contributing, and others are not able to contribute, the conversation may be redirected so that other group members may speak. It’s our way of allowing everyone the chance to contribute.
4. Raise your hand if you need to.
If you’d like to share an opinion and haven’t been able to speak, feel free to raise your hand. Sometimes points can be made quickly by several participants, and it might be difficult to add to the conversation.
5. Disagreeing with the majority of the group is ok.
Please be sure to share your ideas so that we can hear alternate points of view.
6. RSVPs
Please update your RSVP to “Not Going” as soon as you know you won’t be able to attend a meeting. We may be at some smaller venues with limited space, and we want to make sure that as many members who’d like to join us at meetings can. As a courtesy to everyone, a member may be removed from the group if repeatedly not showing up to meetings without updating the RSVP, or regularly canceling with very short notice.
7. Content
Themes will undoubtedly come up that are triggering to some members. Please read book descriptions so that you can make an informed decision about participating in meetings. There are sites online that can provide information about trigger warnings for different books. No site can eliminate all risk of potential triggers because of the wide range of triggers for different individuals. If something is triggering to you, please seek assistance from a trusted source. Topics may not be censored during our meetings. Please be sure that you’re comfortable with this before attending events, since we may be discussing things that you may not be comfortable discussing. If you'd like to step away from the group for a few minutes until that topic is finished, please feel free to do that.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Book Club) AOCRelevate Real Estate, Raleigh, NC
The meeting space has a full kitchen area, so feel free to bring your dinner.
Please consider supporting one of Raleigh's independent bookstores:
Beow's Books & Brews
Quail Ridge Books
So & So Books
Barnes & Noble
AmazonRecommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
About the Book:
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch. - Tailor Made by Kelley Morgan (Romance, Indie Author)Relevate Real Estate, Raleigh, NC
About the book:
TAILOR MAID (LOVE IN THE DISTRICT #1)She’s faking it ’til she makes it. He thinks she’s his perfect match. When the truth comes out, can they rebuild to a happy ending?
Laura Mansfield needs a new game plan. Coming off a long series of bad choices, the freelance journalist is determined to curb her controlling nature and get relationships right. But after her unusual awkwardness blows up a promising blind date, she despairs the lost opportunity… until the handsome lawyer contacts her for a second chance.
Jake Tanner lives life to the fullest. Thrilled by his friends setting him up with a chestnut-haired beauty, he kicks himself for botching things but refuses to quit. And when their next attempt leads to a wonderful time in the city, he’s blown away by their first kiss.
Discovering she has access to the big-hearted attorney’s condo while helping with her sister’s cleaning service, Laura desperately uses inside info to become his dream girl. And Jake is falling hard for the one woman who seems to be marvelously made for him.
Will her messy secret derail their line to love?
If you like heroines who are too clever for their own good, goofy-but-cool heroes, and laughing out loud, then you’ll adore Kelly Morgan’s happily ever after.
We're supporting an Indie Author this month, so this book is only available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/5Fv6qJA
- The Moonlight Healers by Elizabeth Becker (Book Club)Edit Beer, Raleigh, NC
Join us for this month's book. My husband bought it for me on a business trip and it proved he knows me oh so well. :)
Please consider supporting one of the Triangle's independent bookstores:
Beow's Books & Brews
Page 158 Books
Quail Ridge Books
So & So BooksReccommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
About the Book:
An emotionally powerful debut with a magical twist, set between WWII France and present-day Appalachia, about generations of women in a family, their secret healing abilities, and the mysterious consequences they must contend with when they use their skills on someone they love.For generations, the Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift: they can heal with the touch of a hand. It’s a tradition they’ve always had to practice in secret, in the moonlight hours, when the fireflies dance and the whippoorwill birds sing.
But not every healer has rightfully passed on this knowledge to her descendants, and for young Louise Winston, the discovery of her abilities comes in less-than-ideal circumstances—she brings her best friend back from death following an accident, the day after he professed his long-held feelings for her, five days before she’s supposed to move away.
Desperate for answers, and to avoid this new reality between them, Louise escapes to her grandmother’s lush Appalachian orchard. There, she uncovers her family’s hidden history in a tattered journal, stemming back to her brave great-grandmother who illicitly healed Allied soldiers in war-torn France. But just as Louise begins to embrace her unique legacy, she learns that it can also come with a mysterious cost. And with a life hanging in the balance, she’ll be forced to make the most impossible of choices…
Spanning eighty years, The Moonlight Healers is a deeply empathetic, heartfelt novel about mothers and daughters, life and death, and the beautiful resilience of love.
