What we’re about
Welcome to Orange County Book Club!
WHAT WE DO: We meet the second Wednesday of every month at 7:30 pm to discuss an awesome book over drinks (alcoholic or otherwise).
WHO SHOULD JOIN: People who love to read and talk about what they’ve read.
ALL age groups and genders are welcome, provided you are 21+ (because some of our meetups take place at a bar).
WHO’S HOSTING: I'm Meaghan. I’m an LA transplant and big bookworm. I mostly do audiobooks these days. I’m excited to build a new community here! I’m also on Goodreads
Whoever’s book suggestion is chosen can be the host for that month. But if you’re shy, I am happy to cover.
HOW IT WORKS: We’ll choose books about two months in advance so you have time to get them from the library. The following day after each Meetup, we’ll post a poll in the comments for you to vote on the book for an upcoming month. Folks have until that Saturday night (11:59pm) to vote! That Sunday, we’ll officially announce the selection. (Have a book you’d like to nominate to be a part of the poll? Bring your suggestion in-person to the meetup.)
Upcoming events (2)
See all- O Pioneers! - Led by KatieChapter One: the modern local, Santa Ana, CA
Meetup limits our RSVPs to 10 but feel free to show up even if you can’t rsvp. See you there!
WHAT WE'RE READING: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT:
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.
At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestChapter One: the modern local, Santa Ana, CA
Meetup limits our RSVPs to 10 but feel free to show up even if you can’t rsvp. See you there!
WHAT WE’RE READING: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by by Ken Kesey
WHAT ITS ABOUT: Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned.
Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness
