The BotMASS Book Club

A book club that meets on the fourth Sunday each month.

How to join remotely #

We now use Signal video chat.

(Don't use our old link to talk.brave.org. Nobody will be there.)

Good news: Signal installs to desktop computers. Added it just now here. https://signal.org

Upcoming book discussions #

All meeting times are 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific

Sunday, July 26
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
355 pages - fiction
LINK

August 23 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

September 27 TBD [Jim Sheufelt]

October 25 TBD [Pete Hilen]

November 22 TBD [Peter Zobel]

December 27 Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

January 24 A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories by Jonathan Lethem

Call link for all meetings #

We no longer use Brave Talk.

See above.

Past Meetings #

December 2024
Raymond Carver: Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes
Lauren Groff: The Midnight Zone

January 2025
The Hermit's Story, by Rick Bass
The Last Thing We Need, by Claire Vaye Watkins

February 2025
The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
The Fix by Percival Everett

March 2025
Ursula K Le Guin: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Sunday, April 20
Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 159 pages

Sunday, May 18
Percival Everett: James, 302 pages

Sunday June 15
Samantha Harvey: Orbital, 207 pages

Sunday August 3 (postponed from July because nobody was done with the book yet)
Richard Powers: The Overstory 502 pages

Sunday, August 17
Silk by Alessandro Baricco, Guido Waldman (Translator )
91 Pages
LINK
Optional: The Egg by Andy Weir. Out of print short story. Where to find?

Sunday, September 21
Heartwood by Amity Gage
320 pages
LINK

Sunday, October 26
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
528 pages - non fiction
LINK

Sunday, November 23
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (Translator)
160 pages
LINK

Sunday, December 28
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
331 pages
LINK

Sunday, January 25
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
382 pages, non fiction
LINK

Sunday, February 22
Semiosis (Semiosis #1) by Sue Burke
333 pages, science fiction
LINK

Sunday, March 22
North Woods by Daniel Mason
365 pages
LINK

Sunday, April 26
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
195 pages
LINK

Sunday, May 24
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
208 pages, non fiction
LINK

The Arrival by Shaun Tan and The Cicada by Shaun Tan
132 pages - graphic novel
LINK

Welcome #

Bring friends and guests: they are welcome and appreciated.

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