Portland Book Club: "Reading Local Book Clubs"

In a shameless bit of self promotion, today’s book club is you guessed it the Reading Local Book Groups.  This is the last time these groups will be promoted like this, other than highlights of the meetings themselves, as I want to spend more time covering the great book clubs that already exist in Portland.

Although our book groups have just started I have some ideas to hopefully make them a very entertaining place to spend an evening.  Including: bringing in local authors to discuss their publications; local brewers to share their crafts; local winemakers to help get us tipsy; local publishers to talk about the books they are marketing; local musicians to perform their latest hit; local booksellers to talk about their new favorite books; maybe figure out a way to get local chef’s to cook up a special dish just for us; local filmmakers to give a private screening; in addition to invigorating discussions about the chosen book and wherever else the conversation takes us.

The groups have been broken up by genre, one for Fiction Lovers that will meet on the first Wednesday of each month (February’s book is Molly Gloss‘ Hearts of Horses), another for the Nonfiction Lovers out there that will meet on the second Wednesday of each month (February’s book is Steven Bender’s One Night In America), and lastly a Poetry Lovers group on the third Wednesday of each month (February’s book is Kate Gray’s Another Sunset We Survive).  Or, if you are a lover of all things written like I am, by all means we would love to have you attend each one of them.

The groups meet at 7:00 @ the McMenamin’s Cornelius Pass Roadhouse (although both time and place are subject to change if either prove to difficult for attendees).  They will almost always feature books from local authors, although if a local publisher wants to highlight a new publication from an out of state author we will be open to that as well.

First up is Fiction Lovers February 4th.  Hope to see you there!