Diamond in the Basalt

For our next read, the coordinators and book club members have decided to create a new list of potential reads! If you would like to nominate some new books, please add a comment to this post or email one of us. A few new nominations include: “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit [...]

Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex (2002) focuses on the chronicle of forty-one-year-old, hermaphroditic Calliope Stephanides, which presents her multigenerational Greek-American family and her struggle to establish a clear sense of self. After opening with the story of her grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty, and their subsequent union, Cal traces the damaged gene that this brother and sister passed [...]

You are specially invited to… “Ladies Who Lunch” A monthly gathering of young women friends at: One World Cafe ‘your local and organic community kitchen’ 1804 E. Sprague Ave. Saturday, March 14th, 11:30-1:00pm Come to meet new creative, intelligent, charming, and exciting young women in Spokane. We will eat fantastic lunch and have an opportunity to share our [...]

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger was the first book chosen for the Shrinking Violets Society Book Group. “The Time Traveler’s Wife is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel and his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his [...]