*NEW*🔥📚 A Book Club For Curious Minds

💌 JOIN our NEW SUBSTACK to read ALL the book summaries 📕👇

https://rubyrossini.substack.com/

If you have not yet read the book, you are still very welcome to join us. However, in the case of reading a novel, reading it beforehand is strongly encouraged — both to deepen your own experience and to enrich the conversation for others.

Regardless of whether you have read the book, take the time to go through the summary ( it will be published on Substack a few days before our event ) - it will help to ground the conversation on an even level for everyone on Saturday. It is not AI-written - I write all summaries & think pieces myself, and I aim to make them as in-depth as I possibly can.

For Announcements

Join our WhatsApp Group. I will announce here any new events and share the summary for those who are not on Substack: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G011Ugv9bah08PYlcQFJ4m

( This is the announcement group only - ONLY once you have attended the event, you'll be able to join the other group, which is for the community)

⛔️ No Show

Don't be a 💩. Our waitlist is usually chunky. If you can’t make it, change your RSVP, it only takes a second. Two consecutive no-shows and you will be removed from future signups.

Book of the Month

In our last chapter, we followed the life of William Stoner, a man shaped by duty, endurance, and a sense of apparent self-sacrifice. Raised to believe that suffering is the way of life, he watches his marriage slowly unravel while remaining largely passive before its collapse. As readers, we are left with a lingering question: was there ever love to begin with?

It is this question that leads us to Family Happiness, Tolstoy's novella of courtship, marriage, and disillusionment. Though written in the nineteenth century, it remains remarkably modern in its understanding of intimacy. Through the lives of Masha and Sergey, Tolstoy invites us inside the machinery of