April 2020
Book Club Picks
Each month we’ll choose 2 picks to read together as a community: (1) fiction and (1) non-fiction. Twice a month we’ll host a virtual book club with a featured book. Join us, whether you’ve read the book or not. And make sure to bring a book to share/recommend to the group!
Fiction
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Meet Chloe! A button-obsessed computer nerd who’s been self-isolating most of her life due to chronic illness. When a near-death experience throws her a curveball, Chloe decides it’s time to “get a life.” Naturally. she begins with a checklist, but that doesn’t get her very far. That’s where the hot handyman with a motorcycle comes in …
Why we chose this book
It’s new, unique, heart-warming, sometimes steamy and most importantly — FUN.
The storyline may be fun and uplifting, but it also deals with an important topic — chronic and silent illness — in such a beautiful way
While most of the world is in some form of quarantine, isolation or lock-down as we write this, this story is the complete opposite, taking us on a wild adventure we all so desperately need right now.
Non-fiction
Untamed
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.
Why we chose this book
This is a wake up call; it urges us to re-evaluate the way we live our lives and how we define happiness.
From divorce, parenthood, entrepreneurship to addiction — this intimate memoir is deeply personal and relatable. It’ll make you laugh and cry, all in the same breath.