How to join

Create an account on Meetup.com – it’s free!
Visit the Vancouver Women Who Read Meetup Group page and request to join. Make sure you have a real photo of yourself, showing your face, before requesting to join. (You can change it back to a picture of anything you want once you have been approved.)
RSVP for an upcoming event.
Make sure your notifications are set so that you receive email reminders. No-shows are not nice.

Books we discussed

Deb Bender – Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners (Nagi Maehashi)
Anna D. – The Bandit Queens (Parini Shroff)
Catherine H. – Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose (Martha Beck)
Anne V. – The Secret History of Audrey James (Heather Marshall)
Marta – Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Deb J. – Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours (Shirzad Chamine)
Mary C. – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
Linda Y. – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
Winnie – The Book of Awesome (Neil Pasricha)
Anne E. – Know My Name: A Memoir (Chanel Miller)
Anya S. – Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Brian Merchant)
Romney – The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
Anna D. – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain)
Sara – The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis)
Fiona – King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Adam Hochschild)
Brigitte – Port-Soudan (Olivier Rolin)

Alex: Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Sonia: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Sonia: All Fours (Miranda July)
Romney: Peripathetic: Notes on (Un) Belonging (Cher Tan)
Anne E: Little Birds (Anaïs Nin)
Anne: Sex at Dawn (Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá)
Anne: Sex & Punishment (Eric Berkowitz)
Anna: This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life (Stephanie Green)
Winnie: Want (Lynn Steger Strong)
Winnie: Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) (Eliot Schrefer)
Anna: Madam (Antonia Murphy)
Brigitte: All Fours (Sally Rooney)
Brigitte: The Uses of the Erotic as Power (Audre Lorde)
Linda: Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth (Diane Wolkstein & Samuel Noah Kramer)

(Sorry, ChatGPT didn’t cooperate with the link finding tonight!)

Brigitte: L’Amant de la Chine du Nord (Marguerite Duras)
Romney: The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden)
Anne V.: A Little Rebellion (Bridget Moran)
Lucy M.: The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself (Rosin Reames) – This link leads to a search result as I could not find a specific book page.
Anne E.: All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
Anna D.: The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin)
Luna: Value(s) (Mark Carney) – This link leads to a search result as I could not find a specific book page.
Mary: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

Ania: Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum
Romney: Loneliness & Company by Charlee Dyroff
Winnie: On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Anne: Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin by Marion McKinnon Crook
Christine: The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sonia: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kelly: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt