Women’s Book Club (In Person)

This peer-led Book Club welcomes lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, and questioning women of all ages to join readers in a friendly, thought-provoking discussion related to the month’s book selection.

All book selections emphasize works written by and about women and vary in genre, ranging from non-fiction to poetry to historical literature to romance to science fiction to graphic novels.

• When: 2nd Wednesday, 5-6:30 pm
• Where: The Center Library, 3909 Centre St. San Diego, CA 92103
• Contact: For more information on the group, please contact women@thecentersd.org.
• Phone: ‪(619) 692-2077 x134

April: How To Read A Book By Monica Wood
Twenty-two year old Violet has just been released from jail, Retired teacher Harriet runs a prison book club, and retired machinist Frank is a local handyman.  They are all dealing with grief, life changing choices and second chances in Portland, Maine.  Their lives intersect for sad and unusual reasons, but maybe they have more in common than they think.  Or not.  Come find out as we discuss this acclaimed book for our meeting in April.

May:  Stoneyard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
A novel.  An unnamed narrator is unhappy with her career as a conservationist and worried about  impending climate catastrophe, you know, like many of us.  She leaves her husband to move to a convent, where the head nun turns out to be a girl she used to bully in school.  Now they must work together through problems, large and small, at the convent. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, the book marries both despair and horror.  A lovely spring read.

June: Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk  by Kathleen Rooney

This novel takes place over one night, and over many years.  Lillian Boxfish is 85 years old and sets out for a walk on New Years Eve 1984.  During that night,  she encounters the characters of the city, cab drivers, criminals, bodega clerks. During her journey, she reflects on her life as an ad woman for Macys, one of the highest paid in the biz, and the choices she made in both career and family.  The book covers the Jazz Age to the AIDS crisis, a lovely chronicle of the 20th century through the eyes of one woman.  The book is inspired by the real life Margaret Fishback.