BOOK CLUBS

We currently have three book clubs. All three meetings are held here at our store, Wall Street Books, starting at 6pm. However, after August the Hooks & Books club will fluctuate between being held at Wall Street Books and The Tangled Dragonfly. There is food provided at the meetings by the members.

The men's book club, Books & Bros, is held the first Thursday of each month.

The ladies' book club, The Bookworm Brigade, meets every second Thursday of the month. As of right now, our ladies book club is closed to new members.

Hooks & Books is our newest book club for readers who do needlework like knitting, crocheting, felting, sewing, etc. After August, it'll be the third Thursday of every month.

If you or someone you know are interested in joining, please come into the store and discuss it with an employee who can help you get into our book club app. We use an app so that our members don't have to be in a huge group text.

Address:

163 Wall Street

Waynesville, NC 28786

The Bookworm Brigade—For Ladies

This month's meeting will be Thursday October 8th. The ladies from the club will be providing a variety of delicious treats—Lovin' from the Oven— as well as a savory dish or two to eat while we discuss our newest read. This month we are reading Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser.

The synopsis:

Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fierce and determined, Ethel clings to the respectability her deceased husband’s title affords her, hoping it will secure her daughters’ future through marriage.

When a royal ball offers the chance to change everything, Ethel risks her pride in pursuit of an invitation for all three of her daughters―only to see her hopes fulfilled by the wrong one. As an engagement to the future king unfolds, Ethel discovers a sordid secret hidden in the depths of the royal family, forcing her to choose between the security she craves and the wellbeing of the stepdaughter who has rebuffed her at every turn.

As if Bridgerton met Circe, and exhilarating to its core, Lady Tremaine reimagines the myth of the evil stepmother at the heart of the world’s most famous fairy tale. It is a battle cry for a mother’s love for her daughters, and a celebration of women everywhere who make their own fortunes.

"With transporting prose and a galloping plot, this wholly original take on Cinderella recasts the wicked stepmother...a riveting, complex paean to women's strength." ―People (Book of the Week) • "Destined to be one of the biggest books of the year." ―Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed

We have a limited number of hardback copies in store—we will always provide a physical copy of which ever book we are reading for the month for members to buy—so get your copy ASAP before we run out.

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

~Victor Hugo

Books & Bros—For Men

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The men's book club is brand new and is still growing. There is a sign-up sheet in the store if you are interested in joining. October's meeting will be held Thursday the 1st at 6pm. This meeting will be hosted by the owner of the store. Greg Owens. The book this month is Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.

The synopsis:

Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.

For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful―though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die?

“This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” ―Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal

“Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” ―Entertainment Weekly

We have a limited number of paperback copies in store—we will always provide a physical copy of which ever book we are reading for the month for members to buy—so get your copy ASAP before we run out.

Hooks & Books—For Needleworkers

This is a brand-new book club! We really want this book club to be where people who love to crochet, knit, felt, embroider, sew, or do any other needlework can come and be with other crafty people while talking all about books! This month's meeting will be Thursday September 17th from 6pm-8pm. This month we're reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelies. There is a sign-up sheet inside the store. If you have any questions call our store number: 828-456-5000. We hope you'll join us!

This month's meeting will be held at The Tangled Dragonfly which is a local yarn shop. The address is: 225 Church St. Ste 203 Waynesville, NC 28786

The synopsis:

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations―a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

“A good book and a good crochet project can be the perfect companions on a rainy afternoon.”

~ Unknown