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X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - portland-or BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Read The Waves by Virginia Woolf DTSTART:20260919T163000Z DTEND:20260919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260813T000916Z UID:event_315751616@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Amazing Middle-Aged Punk Rock Women!\nTo start off the fall\, let's fall into Virg inia Woolf's The Waves!\n\nThe Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most experiment al and lyrical novel\, capturing the inner lives of six friends as they mo ve from childhood to adulthood\, each voice blending and separating like t he tides they witness by the sea. Through shifting soliloquies\, Woolf rev eals their innermost thoughts\, fears\, and desires\, weaving a delicate t apestry of identity and connection against the unrelenting passage of time .\n\nAs Bernard\, Susan\, Rhoda\, Neville\, Jinny\, and Louis navigate the joys\, losses\, and changes of life\, their individual experiences merge into a shared consciousness\, reflecting the ebb and flow of human existen ce. Moments of love\, grief\, ambition\, and loneliness rise and fall like waves\, capturing the beauty and fragility of life in its smallest detail s and grandest reflections.\n\nA modernist masterpiece\, The Waves invites readers into a poetic exploration of time\, memory\, and the deep current s that shape who we are. Perfect for readers seeking a meditative\, immers ive literary experience\, this novel reveals Woolf’s brilliance in captu ring the rhythms of the human soul. LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T000916Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/middle-aged-punk-rock-book-club-meetup/events/3 15751616/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Read The Waves by Virginia Woolf DTSTART:20260924T010000Z DTEND:20260924T023000Z DTSTAMP:20260813T000916Z UID:event_315862270@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Amazing Middle-Aged Punk Rock Women!\nTo start off the fall\, let's fall into Virg inia Woolf's The Waves!\n\nThe Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most experiment al and lyrical novel\, capturing the inner lives of six friends as they mo ve from childhood to adulthood\, each voice blending and separating like t he tides they witness by the sea. Through shifting soliloquies\, Woolf rev eals their innermost thoughts\, fears\, and desires\, weaving a delicate t apestry of identity and connection against the unrelenting passage of time .\n\nAs Bernard\, Susan\, Rhoda\, Neville\, Jinny\, and Louis navigate the joys\, losses\, and changes of life\, their individual experiences merge into a shared consciousness\, reflecting the ebb and flow of human existen ce. Moments of love\, grief\, ambition\, and loneliness rise and fall like waves\, capturing the beauty and fragility of life in its smallest detail s and grandest reflections.\n\nA modernist masterpiece\, The Waves invites readers into a poetic exploration of time\, memory\, and the deep current s that shape who we are. Perfect for readers seeking a meditative\, immers ive literary experience\, this novel reveals Woolf’s brilliance in captu ring the rhythms of the human soul. LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T000916Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/middle-aged-punk-rock-book-club-meetup/events/3 15862270/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Read Rouge by Mona Awad DTSTART:20261017T163000Z DTEND:20261017T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T003829Z UID:event_316359928@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Amazing Middle-Aged Women Readers!\nFrom a member's recommendation\, we'll dive th is October into a literary\, surreal\, hallucinatory\, gothic\, fairy-tale -infused\, and darkly comic novel!\n\nA National Bestseller\nA USA TODAY B estseller\nA New York Times Editors’ Choice\nA Goodreads Choice Award Fi nalist\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Good Housek eeping\, Electric Literature\, Tor\,and Literary Hub\n\nFrom the criticall y acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the m odern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLO N) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal\, scary and deeply moving —like all the best fairy tales” (People).\n\nA Most Anticipated Book o f 2023 by Time\, Vogue\, The Guardian\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, The Millions\ , LitHub\, Tor\, Good Housekeeping\, and more!\n\nFor as long as she can r emember\, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare v ideos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies\, Belle finds he rself back in Southern California\, dealing with her mother’s considerab le debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stake s escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral\, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise\, followed by a cryptic vide o about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red sh oes\, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse\, the same lavish\, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There\, Belle di scovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession w ith the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.\n\nSnow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this s urreal descent into the dark side of beauty\, envy\, grief\, and the compl icated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror\, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as w ell as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with Califo rnia sunshine and blood-red rose petals\, Rouge holds up a warped mirror t o our relationship with mortality\, our collective fixation with the surfa ce\, and the wondrous\, deep longing that might lie beneath. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T003829Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/middle-aged-punk-rock-book-club-meetup/events/3 16359928/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Read Rouge by Mona Awad DTSTART:20261022T013000Z DTEND:20261022T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260902T184004Z UID:event_316387489@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Amazing Middle-Aged Women Readers!\nFrom a member's recommendation\, we'll dive th is October into a literary\, surreal\, hallucinatory\, gothic\, fairy-tale -infused\, and darkly comic novel!\n\nA National Bestseller\nA USA TODAY B estseller\nA New York Times Editors’ Choice\nA Goodreads Choice Award Fi nalist\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Good Housek eeping\, Electric Literature\, Tor\, and Literary Hub\n\nFrom the critical ly acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYL ON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wak e of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal\, scary and deeply moving —like all the best fairy tales” (People).\n\nA Most Anticipated Book o f 2023 by Time\, Vogue\, The Guardian\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, The Millions\ , LitHub\, Tor\, Good Housekeeping\, and more!\n\nFor as long as she can r emember\, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare v ideos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies\, Belle finds he rself back in Southern California\, dealing with her mother’s considerab le debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stake s escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral\, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise\, followed by a cryptic vide o about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red sh oes\, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse\, the same lavish\, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There\, Belle di scovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession w ith the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.\n\nSnow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this s urreal descent into the dark side of beauty\, envy\, grief\, and the compl icated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror\, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as w ell as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with Califo rnia sunshine and blood-red rose petals\, Rouge holds up a warped mirror t o our relationship with mortality\, our collective fixation with the surfa ce\, and the wondrous\, deep longing that might lie beneath. LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T184004Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/middle-aged-punk-rock-book-club-meetup/events/3 16387489/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR