[nesfa-reading-group] Other local online book clubs doing sci fi and fantasy

[tracy at windweaver.com]

To clarify what I said about other book groups and add more:

Both the Monday night Boston/Newton Science Fiction Meetup
(hosted by Ryan and Elinor) and The Ladies Fantasy Book Meetup
did Kaikeyi this week, coincidentally, I imagine. Long
book, a quite enthralling feminist interpretation of
the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

ALSO
The Monday nigiht Boston/Newton Meetup is discussing Nancy
Kress's Probability Moon in late October, T. Kingfisher
(Ursula Vernon's) Jackalope Wives and Other Stories in
November, and Cogman's The Invisible Library in December.
https://www.meetup.com/boston-scifi/events/303067851/
I tend to like a lot of their selections, which are
rarely hard science fiction.

They recently did Kraken by Mieville and Continuum: French
Science Fiction Stories (the latter was quite interesting,
though the quality was very uneven)

The Tuesday evening Somerville sci fi group which is
apparently affiliated with you all and listed on your NESFA
calendar, is doing Stranger in Olandria this month.

The Boston Ladies Fantasy book club meetup is voting now on
their next two selections. They had about 25 nominations
from which members can vote on 4 books. I've only been to
it once. Based on the results so far of their current poll,
they seem to be favoring queer fiction.

The Boston International Books meetup, my go-to book
club, also occasionally does sci fi, fantasy and alternate
history books, but I didn't even attend last month
because I hated the book too much to read past the first
40 pages - Civilizations by Laurent Binet.

The Liberal Women's online book club meetup (Sudbury, but
meeting online) very occasionally does science fiction and
fantasy. I recently attended  when they did When Women Were
Dragons, which I really enjoyed.

Tracy Marks