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July LezRead - Andrea Gibson Poetry Takeover

Because they are and will always be lightning...

We've decided to have an Andrea Gibson Poetry Takeover at this month's #Lezread book club meeting! Bring your favorite Andrea Gibson poem(s) to share. If you're uncomfortable reading, someone else will happily read on your behalf.

Join us on Sunday, July 27th, 4-5:30 at the Jim Toy Community Center, 560 S. Main Street, A2.

All AG fans are welcome! 

Note that we will meet to discuss the book originally chosen for July in August.

About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the last Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes.

*To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. *

New members welcome! Email lezreadbookclub@gmail.com with questions and to join the private Facebook group.

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July August LezRead: Warn Me When It's Time, by Cheryl A. Head

Join us on August 24th at 4 p.m. at the Jim Toy Center, 560 S. Main, Ann Arbor Michigan. We'll discuss the latest in Cheryl A. Head's Motown mystery series, Warn Me When It's Time. Note that this book discussion was postponed for one month in honor of Andrea Gibson. See updated post for July.

Description: A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children—suspicious of law enforcement’s treatment of Muslims and afraid of reprisal—hire Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find their father’s murderers. The Mack team begins to hunt down the clues in this local hate crime, but they aren’t prepared when they realize that those clues are pointing to a widespread conspiracy that runs through elected state officials and up to the highest levels of national leadership. FBI agent, James Saleh, returns to help the Mack Agency infiltrate and take down a homegrown militia hell-bent on starting a race war in America.

Warn Me When It's Time is a finalist for the 2022 Anthony Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original/E-Book/Audiobook Original Novel and was awarded an Independent Publishers (IPPY) Silver Medal for Great Lakes Regional Fiction.

=== Source: https://www.cherylhead.com/books...

---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email lezreadbookclub@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group. 

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June meeting canceled

We won't meet in the month of June! We will post the book for July soon. Looking forward to seeing everyone. :)

Happy Pride!

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April Lezread: National Poetry Month, 4/27 4pm @ JTCC

It's National Poetry Month! We will stick to our tradition of bringing 2-3 poems to share. Bonus points for sharing a poem by yourself or another queer author, but we welcome whatever poem moves you. As always, if you're not up for reading someone will happily read your chosen piece to the room.

We'll meet at the new JTCC (560 S. Main Street) on Sunday 4/27 at 4pm.

LezRead is open and inclusive of all queer women. We welcome new members! For questions, email lezreadbookclub@gmail.com

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March LezRead: Burn the Place, by Iliana Regan

For March, we're reading Michigan chef Iliana Regan's memoir, Burn the Place! It's a quick 250 page read.

This meeting will be in-person at the new Jim Toy Community Center (560 S. Main Street) on March 30th at 4pm

Book Description: Click the link for full details

About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email skmoore@umich.edu to join the private Facebook group.

Photograph by Jeffrey Marini

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Feb LezRead: The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City and Gender Studies: Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw

We're back in-person at the new Jim Toy Community Center (560 S. Main Street) on Feb 23rd at 4pm for a special February edition of LezRead! We'll discuss a book by a familiar series and try a new graphic novel. Details below.

=== Novel: The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City, by Rachel Sharona Lewis

We loved the Rabbi Who Played with Fire. The author is described as an "accidental mystery novelist" who organizes faith communities in the Boston area around local social justice efforts.

Description: Seven years into Rabbi Vivian's tenure at Beth Abraham, the congregation's senior rabbi is finally talking about retirement. But for now, Vivian is still stuck with his priorities...and with the congregants who call him "the Rabbi." Beyond the synagogue walls, the city's Office of Climate Resiliency is facing down some disturbing statistics, and a tech company new to town is building robots to settle Mars - and join Israel's military. Meanwhile, Vivian's attempts to steer her congregation's reactions to all this hardly leave her enough time to address the other big question that's nagging at her: Should she and her wife try to have a kid? And if so...what makes the perfect sperm donor? 

When a multimillion-dollar robot goes missing, and there are only days to find it before a huge hurricane hits Providence, the city - and Beth Abraham - are tested in every way. Both a community macher and a close personal friend of Vivian's get swept up in the mystery...along with Vivian herself. Who's really responsible for what happened - and who will be forced to take the blame? And what will the city, the congregation, and Rabbi Vivian's life look like in the aftermath of it all?

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Graphic Novel: Gender Studies: Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw, by Ajuan Mance

When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice about you. Still, there are other ways of being different--and feeling different--that can't be attributed to race, especially if you're one of the people whose awareness of the unwritten rules of what it means to be a boy or a girl (or a man or a woman) is tempered by the fact that most of those rules don't feel quite right.

In Gender Studies: True Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw, Ajuan Mance gives comic treatment to the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness. This graphic memoir answers important questions like: How many preschoolers have to mistake you for your dad before you actually start to forget your own name; if a Black girl is awful at double-dutch jump rope is it a reflection on her gender identity, racial identity, or both; and is viola player a gender or just a sexual orientation? Ajuan Mance's comic Gender Confessions take up each of these questions and more, as it invites to share in those moments that mark the path of a gender explorer.

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About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org.

New members welcome! Email lezreadbookclub@gmail.com for more info.

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Feb LezRead: The Color Purple and Dread Nation

For February, we're reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. We'll plan to to have this meeting virtually!

Official Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/268623882778924

=== Book Description: The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

“Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones

“The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52892857 ---- Book Description: Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems. === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30223025 ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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Jan Lezread: Upright Women Wanted and Patience and Esther

For January, we're reading Sarah Gailey's Upright Women Wanted and the graphic novel Patience and Esther, by Sarah Winifred Searle. Scroll down for descriptions of each book. We'll plan to to have this meeting virtually!

=== Book Description: Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”

Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They'll bring the fight to you.

In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity. === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../45320365-upright-women-wanted ---- Book Description: Patience and Esther, by Sarah Winifred Searle

Patience is a kindhearted country girl, eking out a living in Edwardian England as tremors of social change rock the world around her. When she starts her employment in formal service on the grounds of an opulent country manor, she has no idea that her own personal revolution is about to begin.

Selfless, dutiful, and just a touch naive, she takes to both her place as a parlor maid and to her new roommate, the bookish and progressive lady’s maid, Esther. In another time, the two women would have kept one another’s company forever in their little attic bedroom, living out their days in the employ of a Lord. But it’s now the dawn of a new age. The expanding empire has brought with it not only plundered wealth, but worldliness and new ideas. Suffragists agitate in the street, idle-rich bohemians challenge sexual mores, and Patience and Esther slowly come to realize the world is wider and full of more adventure and opportunity than they ever imagined . . . so long as they find the will to seize it.

Sensual, sweet, and beautifully illustrated, PATIENCE & ESTHER is a steamy period romance and an inspirational erotic journey across the epic sweep of history, from the end of a gilded age to the start of an uncharted future. === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53966531-patience-esther ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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Nov/Dec Lezread: Mimosa and Paper Bullets

Date: December 10, 4-5:30pm, via Zoom

Official Post here: https://fb.me/e/1tcNPjqRt

Because of the holidays it's difficult for us to have regularly scheduled meetings in November and December. We do, however, have a specially scheduled meeting on December 10th to discuss the novel Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson, and the graphic novel Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni. Scroll down for details on each book.

I'll post the zoom information in the private facebook group. If you do not use facebook, you can also message or email me (kerene.moore@gmail.com).

=== Book Descriptions: Paper Bullets, by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines.

Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them, and tried them in a court martial, sentencing them to death for their actions. Ultimately they survived, but even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.

Better remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with artists like Gertrude Stein.

Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49150999 ---- ---- Mimosa, by Archie Bongiovanni

Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind—specifically for homos in their dirty 30s.

Grind is a welcome distraction from their real after a messy divorce, Chris adjusts to being a single parent while struggling to reconnect to their queer community. Elise is caught between feelings for her boss and the career of her dreams. Jo tries to navigate the murky boundaries of being a supportive friend and taking care of her own needs. And Alex is guarding a secret that might change his friendships forever. While navigating exes at work, physical and mental exhaustion, and drinking way, way too much on weekdays, this chosen family proves that being messy doesn’t always go away with age. Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60310672-mimosa ---- ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have both virtual and in-person meetings. Please review the description for any schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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July LezRead: Orlando, Virginia Woolf

August 27, 4:00-5:30 via Zoom

Official Event: https://fb.me/e/Vqqzvyfc

This month we'll be reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Normally, I would suggest doing this in-person but as I am currently scheduled to be out of town, I will plan to hold this via Zoom. If someone is willing to host in-person, that's fine. Let us know and I'll be happy to switch the format and share the details.

I'll share the zoom information closer to the meeting date. ___ ___ Book Description: Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. === Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18839.Orlando ---- ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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June LezRead: Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malindo Lo (with AADL’s Big Gay Read)

It's #PrideMonth! Since there are so many events, we do not usually meet. We will, however, be joining the Ann Arbor District Library's author event for the Big Gay Read. They will host Malinda Lo on June 20th, 6-7:30 at the Downtown library to discuss Last Night at the Telegraph Club. We loved this book and are excited to have an opportunity to meet Malinda. For those of you who haven't read any of her books yet, we highly recommend. This isn't the first Malinda Lo book we've read. There are quite a few lovely reads to choose from. Enjoy!

**Note: AADL may be livestreaming the event. If you cannot attend in-person, check with AADL closer to the date to see whether this option is available.** ___ ___ Book Description: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

---- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35224992 ----

---- Please note that there are multiple events associated with AADL's #BigGayRead. Check them out here: https://aadl.org/thebiggayread ---- ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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May LezRead: Legends and Lattes

Official post here: https://fb.me/e/5u93UUuTQ

*Check the private fb group for in-person meeting details, or email kerene.moore@gmail.com*

It's May and it looks like the big winner for this month's reading is Legend and Lattes by Travis Baldree. This book is highly rated and has an extensive cult following. It's somewhat genre defying, and I promise that even if fantasy isn't your cup of tea, this is an undeniably heartwarming cup of coffee that is worth checking out. :)

---- Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree ---- After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.

The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed. ---- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61242426-legends-lattes ---- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group. 

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April LezRead: National Poetry Month Meet-up

April is #NationalPoetryMonth!

**We will gather in-person in the free space room on the third floor of the Ann Arbor District Library downtown.

**Bring two poems to share. They can be self-authored or by your favorite queer author.

**Don't worry if you're shy. One of us will he happy to read your poem for you. 

Official post here: https://fb.me/e/LftFCLEI

--- About LezRead:

LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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March LezRead: Look Again and Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing

March is #MemoirMadnessMonth! We're reading - Look Again, by Elizabeth Trembley - Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, by Lauren HoughMeeting details: We will be holding this meeting via Zoom, but hope to have in-person meetings when the weather permits. The link will be shared in the private fb group. If you are not a member, message or email kerene.moore@gmail.com for info. --- Look Again, by Elizabeth Trembley --- Once, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body.Trauma can make truth hard to find. Have you ever experienced a terror, grief, or confusion so great that when you try to share it you can only find shattered images floating in darkness? You try over and over, but can’t tell the story, to yourself or to anyone else. Look Again presents us with six variations of the same event, seen through the different lenses caused by other life revelations. It explores the fragmenting nature of trauma by tracing the convoluted evolution of the author’s story, a process often experienced by trauma sufferers and their loved ones. --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60812662-look-again --- Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, by Lauren Hough --- Once, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body.Trauma can make truth hard to find. Have you ever experienced a terror, grief, or confusion so great that when you try to share it you can only find shattered images floating in darkness? You try over and over, but can’t tell the story, to yourself or to anyone else. Look Again presents us with six variations of the same event, seen through the different lenses caused by other life revelations. It explores the fragmenting nature of trauma by tracing the convoluted evolution of the author’s story, a process often experienced by trauma sufferers and their loved ones. --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60812662-look-again --- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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February LezRead

Official Post: https://fb.me/e/2WWb2N9jl

Event: February 26, 2022, 4pm

For February, we'll be reading Down To A Science by Haley Cass. Scroll down for the description.Meeting details: As we expect that it will be cold, this will be held via Zoom. The link will be shared in the private fb group. If you are not a member, message or email kerene.moore@gmail.com for info. --- Down to a Science, by Haley Cass --- Ellie Beckett’s life is simple and uncomplicated; she’s on track to become a leading expert in biomedical engineering, she has a pub where she feels comfortable enough to hang out multiple times a week, and, so what if she doesn’t have time for… people? She doesn’t need or want them. Until she meets Mia Sharpe. As it it turns out, maybe Ellie does want at least one person. --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../60914760-down-to-a-science --- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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January Lezread: A Memory Called Empire, and The Legend of Bold Riley

Official Post: https://fb.me/e/1VDuawmwK

Event: January 22, 2022, 4pm

**Please note that we’ve decided to move Down To A Science by Haley Cass from January to February!**

For January, we'll be reading A Memory Called Empire, by Arkade Martine, and graphic novel, The Legend of Bold Riley. We kept Bold Riley in the queue since it's a little harder to find. We'll alsop be passing around few copies locally. Book descriptions are below.

Meeting details: As we expect that it will be cold, this will be held via Zoom. The link will be shared in the private fb group. If you are not a member, message or email kerene.moore@gmail.com for info. --- --- A Memory Called Empire, by Arkade Martine --- Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation. --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../37794149-a-memory-called... --- The Legend of Bold Riley, by Leia Weathington, Illustrated by Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McClellan, Konstantin Pogorelov, and Jason Thompson --- “Who is Bold Riley?” you might ask. She has hunted the wildest game and dallied with countless beautiful girls, but still longs to know the world beyond the city walls. Princess Rilavashana SanParite, called Bold Riley, leaves behind her station and sets out to travel through distant lands and find forgotten ruins, fearsome enemies, inscrutable gods and tragic love.She’s as capable with a sword as she is with her wits—man, does she carve things up when the need arises—and is a strong, beautiful, confident woman who doesn’t wear a bikini into battle. And she always gets the girl! --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../15759065-the-legend-of-bold... --- --- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.

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Nov/Dec LezRead - special dates!

It's the holiday season! We've combined our November/December meetings into one. We'll be reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and graphic novel, The Legend of Bold Riley. Book descriptions are below. Please note the change in date and time. Please also come prepared with lots of book recommendations for everyone to mull over as we read in the new year. Meeting details: As we expect that it will be cold, this will be held via Zoom. The link will be shared in the private fb group. If you are not a member, message or email kerene.moore@gmail.com for info.

Official event post: https://fb.me/e/29IpumLPh

--- --- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, y Alire Saenz --- Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari's features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open and unique perspective on life, would be the last person to break down the walls that Ari has built around himself.But against all odds, when Ari and Dante meet, they develop a special bond that will teach them the most important truths of their lives, and help define the people they want to be. But there are big hurdles in their way, and only by believing in each other―and the power of their friendship―can Ari and Dante emerge stronger on the other side. --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../12000020-aristotle-and... --- The Legend of Bold Riley, by Leia Weathington, Illustrated by Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McClellan, Konstantin Pogorelov, and Jason Thompson --- “Who is Bold Riley?” you might ask. She has hunted the wildest game and dallied with countless beautiful girls, but still longs to know the world beyond the city walls. Princess Rilavashana SanParite, called Bold Riley, leaves behind her station and sets out to travel through distant lands and find forgotten ruins, fearsome enemies, inscrutable gods and tragic love.She’s as capable with a sword as she is with her wits—man, does she carve things up when the need arises—and is a strong, beautiful, confident woman who doesn’t wear a bikini into battle. And she always gets the girl! --- Source: https://www.goodreads.com/.../15759065-the-legend-of-bold... --- --- About LezRead: LezRead is Ann Arbor’s premier book club for queer women. We are informally organized through with the Jim Toy Community Center and meet on the fourth Sunday of the month. We have continued to meet virtually during the covid-19 pandemic and have not determined when/where we will have in-person meetings in the future. Please review the description for schedule changes. *To support JTCC and its work, please regularly donate at jimtoycenter.org. * New members welcome! Email kerene.moore@gmail.com to join the private Facebook group.