About us
Hello Wineauxs!
We are a fun group of wine loving, book loving, aged 35+ (like a fine wine) group of people. We would love for you to join us. Here's one of the many activities we have planned each month....
Monthly Book Club - Every month we meet at a local wine shop in Scottsdale where we have a curated wine tasting based on the theme of that month's book. We discuss the book, drink wine, laugh and have fun. I promise you will meet a new friend at this book club!
Buzz Books & Bubbles - This small group spinoff meets once a month at a wine bar as we discuss a buzzy book of the moment (usually a newly released book) while sipping on champagne or you drink of choice. Great for avid readers who want to read more than one book a month.
The Capote Brunch Society - This is a spinoff of our book club where we meet for brunch and like Truman Capote and his swans we discuss a long form article that I provide to you prior to the brunch (think Anna Delvey fake heiress type stories).
Beginning in February 2025 - The Literary Wineaux Society will be a fee-based membership. All new members will receive a 30-day trial. The annual dues are just $10 per year. You can pay via Meetup or you can pay me directly via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle or Apple Cash. and I'll update your membership manually.
Wineaux Rules: please kindly cancel your RSVP ahead of meetup time if unable to make it to allow for the waitlist to open up. Thank you.
Upcoming events
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LWS May Book Club: 'Falling' by T.J. Newman
Mise en place, 13610 North Scottsdale Road, Ste. 14, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254, United States,, Scottsdale, CA, USIt's Time For May Book Club!
The theme for this month is Planes, Trains, and (no) Automobiles. You voted and the May Book Club Selection is...
'Falling' by T.J. Newman - You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are 143 other passengers on board.
What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight, your pilot’s family was kidnapped.
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
Amazon LinkBook Details:
Page Count: 304
Publish Date: July 6, 2021
Audiobook: 8 hours and 26 minutes. Narrated by Steven WeberAdditional Reading and Viewing:
Read: Go Into the Story - Q&A with author T.J. Newman
Read: NPR - Fasten Your Seatbelts Flight Attendant Turned Novelist Shares Stories From The Sky
Watch: CBS Mornings - Author T.J. Newman on "Falling"
Watch: Tamron Hall - Author T.J. Newman was Rejected 41 TimesLocation:
Mise En Place. Lynn, the owner, will guide us in a wine tasting of 4 wines. $25 per person. Includes light charcuterie bites.RSVP - Please kindly update your RSVP ahead of the event if you are unable to make it. I appreciate your courtesy to the venue.
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Buzz Books & Bubbles: 'Yesteryear' by Caro Claire Burke
Location not specified yetI am so excited for this book. It is probably my most anticipated read of 2026! When I was scouring the TO BE PUBLISHED lists for 2026 last year, this book got my attention like no other. I so wanted to include it amongst the WILD WEST February Book Club nominees, but the publish date is not until April.
YESTERYEAR is the story of a traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.
Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
YESTERYEAR has already been optioned as a feature film by Anne Hathaway's production company.
Book Details:
Page Count: 400
Publish Date: April 7, 2026
Audiobook: 13 hours, 47 minutes, Narrated by Rebecca Lowman (The First TIme I Saw Him)About the Author: Caro Claire Burke received her Master's in Fine Arts from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the co-host of Diabolical Lies, a politics and culture podcast. Yesteryear is her first novel.
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Capote Brunch Society: Breakfast with Tiffany at Valentine PHX
Valentine 💘, 4130 N 7th Ave, 85013, Phoenix, AZ, USHello Swans!
It's another meeting of the marvelous minds and this time we are brunching at Valentine PHX - Check out their brunch menu!
Capote Brunch Society: Be part of the small group that meets the last Sunday of the month to discuss current hot topics as written in a long-form article that I will provide the Thursday before the event (think Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal)
RSVPs: Due to the small group, please make sure to update your RSVP ahead of time if you can not make it to allow the waitlist to open up.
Thank you for your courtesy!
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Past events
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