Monsters, Machines, and Mayhem
Book Club
Next Meet Up
3rd Thursday of the month, 7pm - 9pm
Location: Deep Red Wine Merchants
2901 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
We meet every 3rd Thursday of the month.
Must be 21+ to join. Limited seating, must purchase ticket.
About
The Monsters, Machines, and Mayhem Book Club is a sci-fi and fantasy club that focuses on diverse and queer stories.
This book club is a collaboration between Firefly Fiber Arts Studio, Skunk Cabbage Books, and Deep Red Wine Merchants.
The newsletter will be sent from Firefly Fiber Arts Studio, but it will be about the book club.
Reading List for
October Meet Up
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.
As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
All MMM Members get 10% off book club books at Skunk Cabbage BookS. Here’s how to redeem your discount:
Instore: Stop into Skunk Cabbage Books and let them know you are picking up the MMM book club book!
Online: use code: MILWAUKEE during check out.
Sneak Peak Into Next Month’s Book
The Saint Of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.
He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is, and his discovery will rewrite the world.
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