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
July Meet Up
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.
Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.
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
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses―though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care―threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.
A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.
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