About us
Hello Wineauxs!
We are a fun group of wine loving, book loving, aged 35+ (like a fine wine) group of people. We would love for you to join us. Here's one of the many activities we have planned each month....
Monthly Book Club - Every month we meet at a local wine shop in Scottsdale where we have a curated wine tasting based on the theme of that month's book. We discuss the book, drink wine, laugh and have fun. I promise you will meet a new friend at this book club!
Buzz Books & Bubbles - This small group spinoff meets once a month at a wine bar as we discuss a buzzy book of the moment (usually a newly released book) while sipping on champagne or you drink of choice. Great for avid readers who want to read more than one book a month.
The Capote Brunch Society - This is a spinoff of our book club where we meet for brunch and like Truman Capote and his swans we discuss a long form article that I provide to you prior to the brunch (think Anna Delvey fake heiress type stories).
Beginning in February 2025 - The Literary Wineaux Society will be a fee-based membership. All new members will receive a 30-day trial. The annual dues are just $10 per year. You can pay via Meetup or you can pay me directly via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle or Apple Cash. and I'll update your membership manually.
Wineaux Rules: please kindly cancel your RSVP ahead of meetup time if unable to make it to allow for the waitlist to open up. Thank you.
Upcoming events
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LWS March Book Club: '11/22/63' by Stephen King
Mise en place, 13610 North Scottsdale Road, Ste. 14, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254, United States,, Scottsdale, CA, USHello Wineauxs...
We're stepping back in time to one of my favorite eras of fashion, architecture, cocktails and decor -- Midcentury Modern!
You voted and the March Book Club Selection is...
11/22/63 by Stephen King
- A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
- WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
Description:
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, whose life is upended when his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And the dying Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in the world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere and to the small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love. Every turn leads eventually to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.
Book Details: Amazon Link
Published Date: November 8, 2011
Page Count: 880 pages
Audiobook: 30 hours, 4 minutes. Narrated by Craig Wasson (L.A. Confidential)PS. This is a beast of a book. The longest one we've ever read or will read, BUT it's a challenge! Don't feel you need to finish the entire book. Take your time and read or listen mindfully what you can. The book has spectacular reviews and if anything come for the curated wine experience!
Location: Mise En Place. Lynn has a rep from Napa Valley coming to host a special tasting for us. $25 per person includes wine tasting and charcuterie
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Buzz Books & Bubbles + Movie PROJECT HAIL MARY
Location not specified yetIt's another Buzz Books, Bubbles & MOVIE!
We will be reading and discussing Andy Weir's super popular book Project Hail Mary and seeing the movie starring Ryan Gosling.
The Book... (amazon link)
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to solve an impossible scientific mystery—and to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
THE MOVIE - WATCH THE TRAILER
Please note: This movie is expected to be one of the biggest films of the year as far as box office. So we are seeing it a week after it premieres. I will let you know the showtimes and theaters and how to purchase tickets in advance so we are all sitting together. We will see the movie closest to a 6pm start time. The movie is THE LONGEST RYAN GOSLING MOVIE EVER MADE lol, not sure if this is a sell for you, but the movie is 2 hours, 36 minutes.LOCATION FOR DISCUSSION - within walking distance of the theater after the movie. The location will be announced once we have showtimes.
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Buzz Books and Bubbles: 'Paradiso 17' by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Location not specified yetApril's Buzz Books & Bubbles is one I chose myself based on the story. I'm not sure how much BUZZ this book will receive, if it will be a part of some Celebrity Book Club - maybe Dua Lipa's? I'll keep you updated on the buzz. So far the author will be attending the buzzy literary non-profit The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn in conversation with author Colum McCann whose book Apeirogon, somewhat mirrors this story and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. But I chose this book because I love novels about someone's journey, over decades of their life, through many far and away places, their ups-and-downs, trials and tribulations, the people they meet and who they impact throughout their lifetime. This is Paradiso 17. A novel that was inspired by the author's own father and his personal journey.
Description: Amazon Link
The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope"Generations are captured here, loss and pain and miraculous attempt at renewal. A beautiful work." —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.
Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way—although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of wine. When life takes him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of the desert, in Arizona.
Sufien’s life spans friendships lost and maintained, a stint selling leathers at a tanner’s stall, the ineffable company of cats, and the freedom of the open road, the glowing pride of fatherhood, Sufi myths, prophetic dreams, and visions of the afterlife—and always, always, no matter how far he chases joy, the sweet, treacherous song of a balcony urging him to fly, to fall, to fall. The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting, haunted with grief, struck through, as Dante once wrote, with “the arrow that the bow of exile/shoots first,” and yet they throb with light—not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end, but the brilliant light of a life lived.
Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.
Book Details
Publish Date: March 17, 2026
Page Count: 320 pages
Audiobook: 8 hours, 5 minutes - Narrated by Noor HamdiAbout the Author:
Hannah Lillith Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Raised in Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.Location: TBD.
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