Literary Coven of Denver

March's Novel: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Wed, Mar 11 · 6:30 PM MDT

Barquentine Brewing Co., 5505 West 20th Avenue, Edgewater, CO, US

Please join us for a discussion of March''s novel: 'Black Sun' by Rebecca Roanhorse.

Our meetings start loosely as people come in, get settled, and go to acquire what food and beverages they like. After everyone arrives or about a half hour has passed, we officially start the book discussion. Towards the end we set plans for the book poll and future meetings.

This meeting is at Barquentine Brewing Company. The brewery offers a variety of drinks and is part of Edgewater Public Market which has a wide range of small restaurants from which orders can be carried in. Please purchase what you can from Barquentine to be courteous to the company hosting us.
Barquentine Brewing Company
Edgewater Public Market

**Please update your RSVP if you change your plans about attending.**

The poll for April settled on Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (2025) - 560 pages.

The coven book history to date.

It will be a joy to see everyone!

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March's book description:
'Black Sun' by Rebecca Roanhorse (2020) - 520 pages

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.

April's Novel: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Thu, Apr 9 · 6:30 PM MDT

Barquentine Brewing Co., 5505 West 20th Avenue, Edgewater, CO, US

Please join us for a discussion of April's novel: 'Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Our meetings start loosely as people come in, get settled, and go to acquire what food and beverages they like. After everyone arrives or about a half hour has passed, we officially start the book discussion. Towards the end we set plans for the book poll and future meetings.

This meeting is at Barquentine Brewing Company. The brewery offers a variety of drinks and is part of Edgewater Public Market which has a wide range of small restaurants from which orders can be carried in. Please purchase what you can from Barquentine to be courteous to the company hosting us.
Barquentine Brewing Company
Edgewater Public Market

**Please update your RSVP if you change your plans about attending.**

After the March meeting, the poll for May will be linked here.

The coven book history to date.

It will be a joy to see everyone!

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April's book description:
'Katabasis' by R.F. Kuang (2025) - 560 pages

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.