BOOKCLUB
Reserve your spot to our next bookclub meeting!
Our nūbarre family is full of avid readers and this club will offer an opportunity for us to connect and share our love for good books!
You don’t have to be a nūbarre member to join the bookclub.
We meet once monthly, on the last Saturday of every month at 11 AM. The meetings will be back at the studio, nūbarre, as of August.
There is absolutely no fee to join our bookclub, simply be engaged on our Instagram social media page @nubarrebookclub to make sure you can access our LIVE chats every Saturday - going over the chapters we’ve read. Please take a moment to fill out the form below requesting to join + be sure to write “BOOKCLUB” in the subject field. We will send you detailed emails pertaining to LIVE CHATS RECAP as well as studio meet ups! You will need to purchase your own book.
XOX -nūbarreTeam
Books we’re reading / Have read
THE WEDDING PARTY (Jasmine Guillory)
(September Choice - Feel Good. Rom. Com)
Meeting @nubarre will be held on Saturday, October 3 @ 1pm
Maddie and Theo have two things in common:
1. Alexa is their best friend
2. They hate each other
After an “oops, we made a mistake” night together, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa''s wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they''re comfortable with. Underneath the sharp barbs they toss at each other is a simmering attraction that won''t fade. It builds until they find themselves sneaking off together to release some tension when Alexa isn''t looking, agreeing they would end it once the wedding is over. When it’s suddenly pushed up and they only have a few months left of secret rendezvouses, they find themselves regretting that the end is near. Two people this different can’t possibly have a connection other than the purely physical, right?
But as with any engagement with a nemesis, there are unspoken rules that must be abided by. First and foremost, don''t fall in love.
We cannot wait to read this one!
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS by Don M. Ruiz
(AUGUST CHOICE - SELF HELP)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. The book offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom that advocates freedom from self-limiting beliefs that may cause suffering and limitation in a person's life
*4 things you need to learn to be a mature & happy adult
SORRY I’M LATE I DIDN’T WANT TO COME by Jessica Pan
(JULY’s CHOICE - Humour, Self- help, Non-fiction)
Sorry I’m Late is much more personal, colloquial and intimate than other books in this bashful little genre, but it offers many of the same messages: shy people are not alone; connection is everything; being extroverted can be fun; but sometimes, curling up alone with a good book is really perfectly fine.
THE PROPOSAL by Jasmine Guillory
(JUNE CHOICE - FEEL GOOD; ROM. COM.)
Just a FEEL GOOD summery book!
The Proposal is a novel that follows a woman who is completely blindsided by a marriage proposal at Dodger Stadium. Yet, before the camera crews come in to make a terrible situation even worse, she is saved by a stranger in the stands, and his sister.
We met one of the main characters “Carlos” in a previous book club read “ The wedding date” - read in March. This is his story :)
UNTAMED by Glennon Doyle
(MAY’S CHOICE - SELF HELP)
Bookclub meeting will be on Saturday May 30th, 2pm.
“Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically.” This is how you find yourself.
There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. We hide our simmering discontent—even from ourselves. Until we reach our boiling point.
“She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own—one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self.”
THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell
(APRIL’S CHOICE - THRILLER)
THEN
She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.
NOW
It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.
And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.
Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.
Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away.
Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.
What happened to Ellie? Where did she go?
THE WEDDING DATE by Jasmine Guillory
(MARCH CHOICE - FLIRTY ROMANCE)
A charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel. A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author of the Resse Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick The Proposal.
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist.
On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend...
After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other...
They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...
THE WEDDING by Nicholas Sparks
(FEBRUARY’S CHOICE - ROMANTIC)
“After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.
Did You Know?
The Wedding is a follow-up to The Notebook?