ZLAC Annual Meeting 2025

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 6:30 pm

(Doors open and refreshments served at 6:00 pm.)

For ZLAC members only. See details below.

Important: Please RSVP Here >>

Bunco at ZLAC!

Friday, September 26, 2025

We’ll gather at 6:00 pm for socializing. Game begins promptly at 6:30 pm.

If you've never played, we guarantee you'll enjoy this fast-paced dice game. We'll gather in tables of four, play a round, then switch tables and teammates. It's so fun!

We'll provide full game instructions before we start playing.

Refreshments will include heavy hors d'oeuvres, yummy desserts, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages.

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ZLAC Book Club — September 24, 2025

For Members and Their Guests

Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

"Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives ... but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, that ending?! I did not see it coming." — Reese Witherspoon

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager — the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise, and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.

A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

Learn more at Goodreads.com.

You don’t have to read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!

The book club includes a rating system!

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

ZLAC Book Club — August 26, 2025

For Members and Their Guests

North Woods

by Daniel Mason

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.

When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless question, “How do we live on, even after we’re gone?”

Learn more at Goodreads.com.

You don’t have to read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!

The book club includes a rating system!

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Salt Water Day 2025

Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 11:00 am

Paint and Pour

Friday, August 22, 2025, 5:30 pm

Drinks and snacks will begin at 5:30; painting starts at 6:00.

Admission price includes drinks, snacks, art supplies, and instruction.

Blood Drive at ZLAC

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 9:00 am - 7:00 pm

In cooperation with San Diego Lifeguarding Association and American Red Cross!

Donors will receive a free one-topping medium pizza from Papa Johns and a Fandango movie ticket by email (movie ticket details here).

Please click here to schedule an appointment, using the code SDLA to find our blood drive.

ZLAC Book Club — July 22, 2025

For Members and Their Guests

This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

What if you could take a vacation to your past?

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing.

When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited.

Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

Learn more at Goodreads.com.

You don’t have to read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!

The book club includes a rating system!

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Terrace Luncheon

Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 11:30 am

This buffet luncheon will be held on the terrace and patio.

Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests, the event includes a fundraiser silent auction.

Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)

Nutrition for Rowers: A Presentation

Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 9:00 am

In the Erg Room, after Saturday practice.

This free session is open to everyone connected with ZLAC. You don’t have to be a rower to attend!

Tim Fitsemons, MS, RDN, CSSD will present. Get your questions answered, and improve your nutrition!

NOTE: This will occur right before the Terrace Luncheon, so please park on the street, leaving the parking lot open for the Luncheon attendees.

Yoga and Happy Hour at ZLAC

Friday, July 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm

We’ll gather on the beach at ZLAC for a yoga class taught by ZLAC member Carra Johnson. A happy hour will follow, with light refreshments provided. Everyone should bring a towel to practice on.

This fundraiser is organized by Crew XV. Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests. Bring friends, family members, and fellow rowers!

Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)

ZLAC Book Club — June 24, 2025

For Members and Their Guests

A Thousand Mornings: Poems

by Mary Oliver

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.

Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, A Thousand Mornings explores the mysteries of our daily experience.

Learn more at GoodReads.com.

You don’t have to read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!

The book club includes a rating system!

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

ZLAC Book Club — May 27, 2025

For Members and Their Guests

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

Learn more at GoodReads.com.

You don’t have to read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!

The book club includes a rating system!

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

New Member Tea

For ZLAC Members

Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm

Please join us for afternoon tea to welcome, honor, and celebrate our new ZLAC members!

If you plan to attend, please RSVP to membership@zlac.org by April 30.

ZLAC Book Club — April 22, 2025

For Members and their Guests

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

by Elif Shafak

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Book description from GoodReads.com:

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'

For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her. . .

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — March 25, 2025

For Members and their Guests

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Note that this fall we’ll discuss James: A Novel, by Percival Everett. This is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s novel, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. It has been described as thrilling, harrowing, and darkly humorous.

Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Book description from Amazon.com:

The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, and other topics.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — February 13, 2025

For Members and their Guests

Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett

This meeting will be held at the home of ZLAC member Valerie Lewis. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Book description from Goodreads.com:

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening — until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — January 9, 2025

For Members and their Guests

Table for Two

by Amor Towles

This meeting will be held at the home of ZLAC member Valerie Lewis, as the clubhouse will be closed for maintenance. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Book description from Goodreads.com:

The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.

In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself — and others — in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age.

Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next.

Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Holiday Tea — December 15, 2024

For all members and their guests. Bring the kids! Prospective members welcome too!

Please RSVP here.

Details in the flyer below.

Friendsgiving at ZLAC — November 17, 2024

For all members and their guests. Prospective members welcome too!

Details in the flyer below.

ZLAC’s Restorative Discussion — October 26, 2024

For ZLAC members only. Details in the flyer below.

Please RSVP here by October 19 to reserve your spot!

Halloween Costume Karaoke Party — October 25, 2024

For all members and their guests. Prospective members welcome too!

Details in the flyer below.

ZLAC Book Club — October 22, 2024

For Members and their Guests

Hamnet

by Maggie O’Farrell

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Annual Meeting 2024

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 6:30 pm

(Doors open and refreshments served at 6:00 pm.)

For ZLAC members only. See details below.

Important: Please RSVP Here >>

ZLAC Book Club — September 19, 2024

For Members and their Guests

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

The book club includes a rating system.

We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life. But then he is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music—with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world—shades and hues that others cannot see? Most important, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Salt Water Day 2024

Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 11:00 am

For ZLAC members and their guests. Bring the kids!

Order your commemorative t-shirt here! Women’s sizes.

Please RSVP

ZLAC Book Club — August 6, 2024

For Members and their Guests

Fresh Water for Flowers

by Valerie Perrin (translated by Hildegarde Serle)

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

NEW! The book club includes a rating system.

We think it might be fun to see what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

French novelist Valerie Perrin wrote this funny yet moving story of Violette Toussaint, a caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. One day the local police chief arrives with a strange request: to deposit his mother’s ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. We soon find that his mother’s story is intertwined with Violette’s secret past.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — June 27, 2024

For Members and their Guests

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

by Alice Munro

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

NEW! The book club will now include a rating system.

We think it might be fun to see what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

Canadian author Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, with good reason: she is widely considered a master and innovator of the short story. Munro passed away in May, and we honor her by reading and discussing this book of short stories, published in 2001.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Terrace Luncheon

Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Sold out! Thanks to all who purchased tickets. See you there!

ZLAC Book Club — May 30, 2024

For Members and their Guests

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.

NEW! The book club will now include a rating system.

We think it might be fun to see what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.

Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.

Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.

This book is about true crime but so much more: it's about identity and history as well. Hard to believe it's a true story! Read more about it at Goodreads.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

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