Queer Book Club
Thu, Nov 07
|Read Rose Books
Open to all, this is primarily a space for queer folks to meet other people in the community and share their love of reading by diving into books that explore the queer identity!
Time & Location
Nov 07, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Read Rose Books, 23 N Prince St, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
Guests
About the event
Hello! For November we will be reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.
*Recommended by Reese Witherspoon's Book Club!
*Voted One of Book Riot's Most Influential Queer Books & Horror Novels of All Time!
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel.
This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.
To prepare for this meeting! -
To purchase online please use this link! This will take you to Read Rose Books on Bookshop.org.
This book is available for free through the Lancaster Hoopla App.
Join the conversation on Discord! Please feel free to bring a snack or drink to share.
Resources to Access Books:
Lancaster Library
Hoopla App - Library Card Needed
Libby App - Library Card Needed
https://bookshop.org/shop/readrosebooks - Physical copy available for purchase and supports Read Rose Books
https://libro.fm/readrosebooks - Audiobooks available for purchase and supports Read Rose Books