The Capitola Book Discussion Group meets every 1st Wednesday of the month from 10:30am to 11:30am. For easy accessibility, we have moved to Zoom (registration required). We welcome all adults to join us.
Register online by cliicking the button on the left, or by contacting the Capitola Branch at 831-427-7705.
“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” —Jeanette Winterson
September 2025: Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
A classicist asks: If women aren’t perceived to be within the structure of power, isn’t it power itself we need to redefine?
From the book:
We have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.
October 2025: Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
Includes six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden-Age Hollywood. “Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —L.A. Times
From the book:
“We should have dinner some time.”
“That would be lovely,” I replied and headed for the door. Though needless to say, I'd sooner hang.
November 2025: Daring to Drive A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif
By the woman who led the movement that won Saudi women the right to drive, showing how women in Muslim countries are helping change their culture, one step at a time.
From the book:
Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future.
December 2025: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
“It’s not a prophecy; it’s a nightmare, and it becomes more nightmarish–and also funnier and more bizarre–as is goes along.... [A] sinuous and brilliant book, with its extreme sweetness, its black pain, and its low, ceaseless cackle.” —The New Yorker
From the book:
How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.
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