Mocha Girls Read - Bridgeport

📚 Hosted By: Renee Bailey
✨ Silent Reading Hour ✨
Join us every Monday for an hour of peaceful reading together!
How it works:
1️⃣ Pick any book you love.
2️⃣ Log in to the meeting.
3️⃣ Read for as long as you’d like.
💡 “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoë Saldana
🌐 Where: Virtual via Google Meet
📅 When: Every Monday
📲 Video call link: https://meet.google.com/msv-pyyp-eig
We can’t wait to see you there! 📖✨

*** This is not an event, just a monthly Mocha Girl Read newsletter. ***
December 2025
📖 Nominations for JANUARY monthly selection 📖
Each month, Mocha Girls Read members select one book to nominate for our Monthly Book Selection. To make the process fun & easy, we give you a theme for each upcoming month — helping us mix up genres, authors, & perspectives all year long. In 2026, our year-long theme is Around the World, where we’ll explore books & authors from different countries & cultures each month.

Nominations: December 8–14, 2025
Voting: December 15–21, 2025
Winner Announced: December 22, 2025

Theme for January:
SCANDINAVIAN AUTHORS
(Any book written by an author from a Scandinavian country.)
Remember: one nomination and three votes per person.

Happy Holiday Wishes from Mocha Girls Read
To all the Mocha Girls, both near and far, we wish you a delightful holiday season. Whether you’re celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa, may your festivities be filled with joyful moments and enriched by wonderful characters.
~ The Mocha Girls Read Sisterhood

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Let’s do this together, Mocha Girls. Let’s show the world what a community of readers can do. 📚💪🏾

📕 What are we reading this month? 📕
Spilling the Tea by Brenda Jackson
Ninetysomething Mama Laverne is determined to find all of her great-grandchildren their perfect match before going home to glory. So far, her success rate is 100 percent—and she intends to keep it that way.
After sustaining injuries in Iraq, Chancellor Madaris was told he’d never walk again. Chance credits his great-grandmother Mama Laverne with giving him the will to heal and prove the doctors wrong. He has a healthy respect for her meddling ways and knows he’ll eventually end up next on her matchmaking list.
When Zoey Pritchard was eight, she survived a car accident that took the lives of her mother and father, and was sent to live with her great-aunt who refused to speak about her parents. Zoey has no memory from before the crash, but she’s been having the same dream over and over…
Searching for answers, Zoey travels to Houston, where she uncovers a scandal involving her parents and the wealthy and powerful Madaris family. Her trail leads her straight to Chance’s door. The dislike and intense attraction are instant and simultaneous. But to help Zoey restore her memory, he grudgingly introduces her to his great-grandmother…
Was it chance, or Mama Laverne’s plan, that threw this pair together?

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Greetings Mocha Girls,

I hope this message finds everyone well.

Please join us on Google Meet where we will have our discussion virtually.

The link will be visible once you RSVP.

Warmly,
Mocha Girl Sharnise

Our December 2025 monthly book selection is "Spilling the Tea" by Brenda Jackson.

Remember, if you don't finish the book, you are still welcome, so come anyway!

R.S.V.P. Etiquette:
Please make sure to RSVP to an event or book club meeting ONLY if you are going. Do not RSVP if you are thinking about going or would like to go.
Thanks in advance and I can't wait to see you all!

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About the Book:
A small Georgia town, a broken heart, and an old flame—Brenda Jackson serves up a sexy, dramatic reunion story in this latest novel set in Catalina Cove.

When LaVinia “Vinnie” Middleworth’s world shatters, she finds herself back in her hometown of Catalina Cove, the place she thought she’d left behind for good. What she doesn’t expect is to come face-to-face with her ex, Gabriel Franklin—the man she never stopped loving.

But things have changed. Vinnie is determined to rebuild her life on her own terms, and Gabriel has secrets of his own. When circumstances force them together, the sparks they once shared quickly reignite, and long-buried truths begin to surface.

As Vinnie reconnects with her roots and the people who once made her feel at home, she learns that sometimes healing starts right where your heart was broken—and that the best stories always start with a little spilled tea.

About the Author:
Brenda Jackson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 150 novels and novellas to her name. A true pioneer in African American romance, Brenda has been publishing since 1995 and continues to create unforgettable love stories featuring strong, complex Black characters.

Her novels have earned her numerous awards, including the Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. Beyond the page, Brenda is deeply committed to uplifting communities through education and literacy initiatives.

Learn more about Brenda and her incredible career at BrendaJackson.com.