Book Drives San Francisco

Hike: Five Mile Drive Outer Loop

Hey everyone, Posting another hike route worth doing together: 🥾 Five Mile Drive Outer Loop 📏 3.8 mi ⏱ ~1 h 42 min I'd love to organise a self-hosted meet to do this hike together on Sunday, July 12. No commercial host, just members of the group meeting up to enjoy the route. Bring water, weather-appropriate gear, and the route loaded on your komoot app: https://www.komoot.com/smarttour/e1283947996/five-mile-drive-outer-loop See you on the trail!

East Bay Women's Book Club July Meetup: Soldier Sailor

Hello, fellow female readers -- The book for the July Meetup is Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy For those of you who are new, I will send out the address to my house by Monday, July 13. Looking forward to gathering together and discussing the book. Bonnie

Book 89: Tilt by Emma Pattee

This is another New York Times recommendation: “The most read New Yorker article of 2015 was Kathryn Schulz’s “The Really Big One,” about the potentially devastating Cascadia earthquake that has a 1-in-3 chance of striking the Pacific Northwest within the next 40 years. Taking this very real threat as its knockout premise, Emma Pattee’s debut novel, “Tilt,” is a moving adrenaline rush that also manages to be very funny. Looking forward to reading and discussing this one! -Jessica \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **How it works:** We’ll meet at a local brewery for some drinks and conversation. Finishing the book is not a requirement to attend—as long as you don't mind spoilers! We’ll have an unstructured, informal discussion of the book and the themes that the book brings up. We hope to see you there! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- *Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.* Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life. “Shocking and full of heart” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Tilt is a “moving adrenaline rush” (The New York Times Book Review) and “epic odyssey” (NPR) about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love.

Captivating Book Club & Yummy Lunch

Book, Coffee, Chit Chat, etc. (Tuesday Edition)

ATTENTION: We are now meeting in person again! Please follow current recommendations around mask usage to keep everyone safe. Masks are always welcome and accepted, no matter the current regulations. If you'd like to meet online check out our meeting on the first Wednesday of every month. It's that time again! Let's chit chat about the books we exchanged last time and welcome newcomers bringing their first book. If you've been before you know the deal, otherwise just bring a book to share and expect to say both a few words about it and why you want to share it.

Calling all book lovers!

Calling all book lovers! Unplug and join us on the beach with a book you would like to read. Don't forget your book, beach chair/towel, mask, and a bottle of water. While we love to watch children run and play, it's an adults only kind of day. We will be on Alameda Beach (Shore Line Drive between Fair Haven Road and Sand Beach Road). Directions From Oakland: https://goo.gl/maps/77XFVvLqJa72 From San Francisco: https://goo.gl/maps/9fYAbGc7ozo From San Jose: https://goo.gl/maps/6wdEuX8K9xA2

Tart by Slutty Cheff

A hilarious, hot, and steamy account of coming of age in and out of the kitchen, from the anonymous chef and columnist, Slutty Cheff. “It’s the two best things in the world: food and sex.” When Slutty Cheff finds herself bored and fed-up with her 9–5 job in corporate marketing, she turns to the only thing that she really likes to do: cooking. So she quits her job, swaps emails for emulsions, and sets off to pursue her dreams of becoming a chef. The world of London’s fine dining restaurants is so much more than she imagined: it’s more challenging, and more exciting too. There are the exhausting lows of sixty-hour work weeks in windowless kitchens, and the shock of stepping into the changing room as the only woman. There are the thrilling highs of a busy night, when service is running smoothly; electrifying run-ins with hot bartenders and even hotter chefs; and, always, the exhilaration of cycling hands-free through a city that is still sleeping, on a morning where anything can happen. This is a story about searching for your purpose, and experiencing and embracing life to the fullest along the way. The pleasure and the chaos too… An exquisite mix of raw Anthony Bourdain-style honesty with the sharp wit of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Tart is THE book for those who like to eat and f\*\*k.

July Meeting: Kate Folk - Out There

**Recommended Stories:** * Out There ([Online at New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there)) * The Bone Ward * Big Sur "Sky Daddy" was a sleeper hit from this bay area writer, so we're looking forward to seeing what her short stories are like! **For First-Timers:** We recommend reading at least one story, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above. **About the Author:** Kate Folk is an American writer based in San Francisco. Her speculative, often unsettling fiction explores technology, the body, intimacy, and modern alienation.

July Book Club: Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess

Since I will be out of town for the July meetup, one of our founding Explorers has agreed to lead the charge. I'm sad to miss it but you will all be in good hands. ABOUT THE BOOK Everything's Fine is the debut novel by Cecilia Rabess, a sharp and poignant story about a Black liberal woman, Jess, and a white conservative man, Josh, who fall into an unlikely romance while working at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Set against the backdrop of a politically fractured America from 2008 to 2016, the book explores themes of race, class, ambition, and identity, questioning if love can overcome deep-seated political and cultural differences, especially as the political landscape shifts with the 2016 election. “Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia Rabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut…The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years.” —The New York Times

2nd Saturday "Not quite a book club" in the Richmond District

Show up having read a book\* you want to talk about. Get a beverage and/or food inside the cafe. We will probably meet outside in Bazaar Cafe's back garden.\*\* (The garden is accessible through an alley. There is a door to the alley next to the register inside. You can also go directly to the back garden from the street via the alley entrance on the right side of the right Cafe window.) Once you've spotted the group, we will introduce ourselves and have a brief period of chit chat. Then we will go around our group each talking about the (different!) books we read. Afterwards, you are welcome to stick around and chat. If you have a physical book you are done reading and want to offer other folks in the group, you are welcome to do that, but there is absolutely no obligation to do so. \*Any book! Could be a graphic novel, or non-fiction, or fiction, or a mystery or a romance novel or SciFi or Fantasy! \*\*If it is raining or a really bad air day from wildfires, it may be too crowded inside Bazaar Cafe to find a table, although it was raining during a few meetings early last year and the Bazaar cafe folks helped me stake out a table. In the event of rain and no space inside, I will probably move the event a few blocks away to Ilana Coffee or Royal Ground Coffee on Clement. I will message the group if we meet inside or if the location moves to another coffee shop.

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Our book for July is *1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation* by Andrew Ross Sorkin For those who are interested, here is the [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nXcAHBplZjR8k_T2TcGcApEtsQih731XykSaX1g4twk/edit?gid=1204962740#gid=1204962740) to the detailed results from the voting. Eight years in the making and drawn from newly unearthed material — private papers of Wall Street titans, an unpublished memoir, and previously undisclosed Federal Reserve deliberations — the book moves chronologically from February 1929 toward the October cliff and into the wreckage that followed. The cast is enormous and the storytelling is propulsive: J.P. Morgan partners quietly offering stocks to politicians at below-market rates, National City Bank's Charles Mitchell pitching Americans on buying stocks the way they bought cars and refrigerators, NYSE president Richard Whitney extolling the exchange as a "perfect institution" while embezzling securities to fund his country-estate fox hunting, a lame-duck Herbert Hoover begging FDR to declare the bank holiday he himself refused to call. Champagne yachts, pump-and-dump schemes, suicides, dalliances with Mussolini — it's all here, rendered with the granular reporting that made *Too Big to Fail* a modern classic. What makes this a good book club pick — beyond the sheer narrative momentum — is how openly it invites argument. Sorkin explicitly frames 1929 as a warning for our own moment of crypto and AI exuberance, but reviewers have split sharply on whether he actually lands the lesson. The New York Times Book Review called it a fable of greed, corruption, and incompetence to shock the conscience, while faulting Sorkin for an oddly sympathetic posture toward the very bankers whose schemes he chronicles. Others — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Barack Obama's year-end list — have hailed it as one of the best narrative histories in years. Whether you arrive as a finance nerd, a history buff, or someone who's never cracked a book about Wall Street, there's plenty to chew on: the eerie rhyme with today's markets, the question of whether human nature really is the villain or just a convenient alibi, and whether "this time is different" is the most expensive sentence in the English language. Bring your verdict. This event will be hybrid. I will host the meeting in person at my house in Berkeley which is near the intersection of College Ave and Woolsey St. I will email people the address the Saturday before the meeting. Here are the Google Meet details: Google Meet link: [https://meet.google.com/zem-xnbw-tuh](https://meet.google.com/zem-xnbw-tuh) Or dial: ‪(US) +1 641-854-0146‬ PIN: ‪637 012 874‬#

Oakland BYO Book Club (First timers welcome & introvert friendly)

[Partiful RSVP Link](https://partiful.com/e/20wL1zDdg5Hb60AJ0ZIA?c=wR5BJPQY) On Tuesdays, we have a book club with a twist. Bring any book you are currently working on or want to start. We spend the first part reading in silence together (until about 8:15 pm) and the last part discussing what we are each reading, what inspired our reading choices, and a nugget from what we read. 📕 Great way to learn about new topics, books, authors, and about each other with our rich discussions 🧠 😌 Newcomers welcome and Introvert-friendly. An Oakland Muslim Bookclub gathering — bringing Muslims together through books, conversation, and adab. Partifull RSVP (we have an average of 5-15 regulars who attend bookclub weekly, most rsvps are via Partiful): [Partiful RSVP Link](https://partiful.com/e/20wL1zDdg5Hb60AJ0ZIA?c=wR5BJPQY)