How it All Started

Elaine, Marie, Jackie, Stacy, Joe, Josh, Joe, Shannon, Dan.

We are the "9" who came to the first book club meeting of the Philly Book Club 9. We read and discussed Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. But before bookish conversation we got to know each other over a potluck meal in the courtyard at Workmen's Place in Queen Village. While today certainly felt like summer, by the time we all gathered the sun had set enough to bring the temperature down to something quite comfortable.

This book club is, in some ways, a 2nd iteration to a Washington, DC based book club that Josh and Jackie participated in some years ago. They both now find themselves in Philadelphia and actually living around the corner from each other. This group is a mix of each's friends and family, and the group will surely grow in the coming months.

Our next books is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The next meeting is again at Workmen's Place - Front between Fitzwater and Pemberton - on Sunday July 8th at 6pm.