Welcome, Mesa Book Readers!

Location
Mesa, AZ 33.44-111.71 85205US
Meetups
55 so far
Rating
The East Valley Book Club 4.50 4.5010
Meetup topics
Founded
January 3, 2006

Join other readers as we discover and learn about life and ourselves through collective reading! Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, you?ll read a new book every month. Come to laugh, share stories and build some new friendships!

Where?
1361 S Alma School Rd
Mesa, AZ 85210
480-833-2244
Who’s coming?
8 Yes / 0 Maybe

Want to attend?

Well for this month, we can finally do our first "second book by an author". Although not many of you were around, a long, LONG time ago, we did James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces. For this month, we have chosen "Bright Shiny Morning" by the same author. Read more

What members are saying

 Diverse group of people - some quiet, some more expressive, certainly had two distinct points of view about main character of book! ... 

—A former member

 All of us enjoy general, escapist literature, but our members have "moved on" to the really stimulating stuff of the sort that wins book awards where characters become real, nuanced peopl ... 

Join The East Valley Book Club

You'll get invited to our Meetups as soon as they're scheduled!

What's new?

  • Jun 9
    • New member
      “I have just moved to Mesa from the Houston area and I am looking to meet people who share my interests. I am a voracious reader so a book club sounds like fun!”
  • May 28
    • New member
      “I love to read and would like to meet more people in the East Valley”
  • May 23
    • New Greeting for
      “It was good to meet you. Seattle? I lived in Bellingham for awhile, my kids are in Seattle staying with my sisters for the week. Maybe we have met before. I had fun at the meeting. I'll be back. Man I left my glass on the table I'll make it up to whoever picked up after me. See ya, Jim”
      posted by Jim
  • May 19
    • New member
      “I've worked in libraries for the past 10 years and now work with libraries all over the world so I'm constantly inundated with new titles that I don't have time to read so thought this would help”
  • May 17
    • New Greeting for
      “Hi Denise, It's good to see you're in this group too! Are you going to the meetup on Wed? Jim (from Socrates Cafe)”
      posted by Jim
  • May 8
    • New member
      “I love to read and discuss books!”
  • May 4
    • New member
      “I enjoy reading and belonged to a book group when I lived in Oregon. Since moving here, I haven't found a book group to join close to home.”
  • Apr 22
    • New member
      “Reading is a passion and a salve. I want to share ideas and learn others takes on books.”
  • Apr 20
    • New member
      “I love to read. I would like to hear other perceptions on the same books that I read.”
  • Apr 15
    • New member
      Jim
      “Reading the book is only half the fun!”