Julie Carlson, discussant Open Throat , Henry Hoke Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, unlike anything you've ever read, in the completely original voice of a lonely and loveable mountain lion living beneath LA’s Hollywood sign. Inspired by P-22, the real-life puma who lived in LA’s Griffith Park. One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books […]
Ciji Ware, discussant How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Life Like Everyone Else, Michael Gates Gill (Sausalito author) A memoir which chronicles Gates' journey from a high-level advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson to a barista at Starbucks.
Carol Cotton, discussant The Women, Hannah Kristin A book about Frankie McGrath and her enlistment as a surgical nurse in the Vietnam War in 1966 coming from her privileged upbringing in Coronado, CA. While focused on the experience of women in the Vietnam War, The Women reflects on how women were dismissed by history as […]
