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Suggest new books or locations using this link: Baltimore Books and Brews Suggestions
It's hard to make friends as an adult. Come join a low-stakes kind of book club where we hang out, chat about our monthly book, and build community. Didn't finish the book? you're welcome too!
We'll rotate breweries or coffee shops for meet ups once a month.
What to expect:
- To encourage and spark conversations we'd like to open meet ups by going around the room, introducing ourselves by rating the book 1-5 stars and a couple sentences about what you thought about the book.
- At the end of the meeting we’ll spin a wheel full of genres for a random genre and then use that to select a book from out Suggestion list at random for future events.
- Events planned a few months in advance to give everyone more time to find, place on hold, and read the book.
- We want your suggestions! - we really value the input from the group and wanted to keep all those great book and location suggestions in one spot where they won't get lost for future meetups.
Featured event
January Book Club: How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley
January Genre: Humor
January Book: How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley
Location: The Bun Shop
Part history lesson. Part sacrilege. An entirely good time.
Think you have what it takes to be a saint? Lucky for you, thousands of souls have paved the way to heaven—creating a clear formula for getting the job done while also leaving a rich, disturbing history behind them. And in just five easy-ish steps, you can learn how to secure your own halo!
But even if the whole "dying and becoming a saint" thing doesn't appeal to you, the bizarrely bureaucratic process of canonization is still guaranteed to delight and entertain. How to Be Saint is a compulsively readable and endlessly entertaining ride through Catholicism for anyone who enjoys their history with a side of comedy. From flying friars to severed heads, this book explores the wild lives (and deaths) of saints and pulls the curtain back on the oddest quirks of religious doctrine.
Whether you're a lifelong Catholic or a weird-history enthusiast, How to Be a Saint is your ultimate guide to understanding the hilarious, fascinating, and shockingly true history of sainthood.
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph
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January Book Club: How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley
The Bun Shop, 239 W Read St, Baltimore, MD, USJanuary Genre: Humor
January Book: How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley
Location: The Bun Shop
Part history lesson. Part sacrilege. An entirely good time.
Think you have what it takes to be a saint? Lucky for you, thousands of souls have paved the way to heaven—creating a clear formula for getting the job done while also leaving a rich, disturbing history behind them. And in just five easy-ish steps, you can learn how to secure your own halo!
But even if the whole "dying and becoming a saint" thing doesn't appeal to you, the bizarrely bureaucratic process of canonization is still guaranteed to delight and entertain. How to Be Saint is a compulsively readable and endlessly entertaining ride through Catholicism for anyone who enjoys their history with a side of comedy. From flying friars to severed heads, this book explores the wild lives (and deaths) of saints and pulls the curtain back on the oddest quirks of religious doctrine.
Whether you're a lifelong Catholic or a weird-history enthusiast, How to Be a Saint is your ultimate guide to understanding the hilarious, fascinating, and shockingly true history of sainthood.
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph22 attendeesFebruary Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wico Street Beer Company, 1100 Wicomico St, Baltimore, MD 21230-2008, Baltimore, MD, USFebruary Genre: Classics
February Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Location: Wico Brewing
One of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities, set during the French Revolution, is a compelling portrait of the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice. When the starving French masses rise to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and the innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause—La Guillotine, the new invention for efficiently chopping off heads. This captivating tale uses the contrasts between the two cities’ “beliefs” to reveal the central choice confronting every society and each individual: Should a person work to change society, or should the revolution occur within his heart?
Where to find:
Libby (Baltimore County Public Library)
Libby (Maryland Digital Library)
Baltimore County Public Library
Enoch Pratt
BookShip Dot Org
GoodReads
StoryGraph14 attendees
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