The Reading Room / Book Club
This Month’s Selection
One book a month, chosen by the circle. They read it together, meet on the second Tuesday, and argue about it, and you are welcome to read along and bring your own verdict to the table.
The Wedding People
A woman checks into a beautiful Newport hotel intending it to be her last week alive, and accidentally gets a whole new life instead. The circle could not put it down, and could not stop arguing about the ending.
Read along — find it at Bookshop → A small commission supports the Lab. It never changes what the circle picks.
The Conversation
What the table said. Read along and tell us where you land.
“I went in for the Newport hotel and the good clothes, and I stayed for a woman deciding, page by page, not to disappear. I suppose I have a weakness for women who change their minds.”
Blanche
“Funny and sad in the same breath, which is the hardest thing to write and the truest thing to live. Marla is a monster and I loved her.”
Vivienne
The gathering, the monthly pick, and the argument that follows live with the Hot Old Ladies. There is always room at the table.