How to join
- Create an account on Meetup.com – it’s free!
- Visit the Vancouver Women Who Read Meetup Group page and request to join. Make sure you have a real photo of yourself, showing your face, before requesting to join. (You can change it back to a picture of anything you want once you have been approved.)
- RSVP for an upcoming event.
- Make sure your notifications are set so that you receive email reminders. No-shows are not nice.
Next meetings
Walk & talk: Sunday February 16th, 2025
March gathering: March 11th, 2025
Books we discussed
January 14th, 2025 gathering
- Deb Bender – Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners (Nagi Maehashi)
- Anna D. – The Bandit Queens (Parini Shroff)
- Catherine H. – Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose (Martha Beck)
- Anne V. – The Secret History of Audrey James (Heather Marshall)
- Marta – Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
- Deb J. – Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours (Shirzad Chamine)
- Mary C. – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
- Linda Y. – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
- Winnie – The Book of Awesome (Neil Pasricha)
- Anne E. – Know My Name: A Memoir (Chanel Miller)
- Anya S. – Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Brian Merchant)
- Romney – The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
- Anna D. – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain)
- Sara – The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis)
- Fiona – King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Adam Hochschild)
- Brigitte – Port-Soudan (Olivier Rolin)
February 11th, 2025 gathering
- Alex: Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
- Sonia: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- Sonia: All Fours (Miranda July)
- Romney: Peripathetic: Notes on (Un) Belonging (Cher Tan)
- Anne E: Little Birds (Anaïs Nin)
- Anne: Sex at Dawn (Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá)
- Anne: Sex & Punishment (Eric Berkowitz)
- Anna: This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life (Stephanie Green)
- Winnie: Want (Lynn Steger Strong)
- Winnie: Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) (Eliot Schrefer)
- Anna: Madam (Antonia Murphy)
- Brigitte: All Fours (Sally Rooney)
- Brigitte: The Uses of the Erotic as Power (Audre Lorde)
- Linda: Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth (Diane Wolkstein & Samuel Noah Kramer)
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March 11th, 2025 gathering
- Brigitte: L’Amant de la Chine du Nord (Marguerite Duras)
- Romney: The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden)
- Anne V.: A Little Rebellion (Bridget Moran)
- Lucy M.: The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself (Rosin Reames) – This link leads to a search result as I could not find a specific book page.
- Anne E.: All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
- Anna D.: The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin)
- Luna: Value(s) (Mark Carney) – This link leads to a search result as I could not find a specific book page.
- Mary: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)