Glendora Bookshop welcomes community member, book friend and chief mastermind, Jodie, as the leader and first host of our NEW Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that will explore fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography, and classics bi-monthly. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.

Every other month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre. 

To kick things off, we’re reading and discussing All Fours by Miranda July! We have copies in house, so be sure to come and grab one early.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!

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The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

"All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible." --The Cut

"A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life . . . Deeply funny and achingly true." --LA Times

"July's novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I've ever read." --New York Magazine

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Miranda July's second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July's wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman's quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-fours-miranda-july/20578438?ean=9780593190265