June BUTS Book Club

Name: June BUTS Book Club
Start: 2026-06-24T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-24T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Shu Shop, 1820 3rd Ave N

Schedule

Wed Jun 24 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Shu Shop, 1820 3rd Ave N | Birmingham, AL

Here are the next books so you can plan ahead:
June: All Fours by Miranda July
July: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
August: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
September: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
October: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
November: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (audio book recommended)
December: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Location of May book club: Shu Shop, 1820 3rd Ave N
We'll decide the next book club locations as we go, and we take requests.:)
Reviews of All Fours:
“An irreverent and brilliantly touching story of a woman’s quest for freedom.” —Oprah Daily
"Atmospheric, sexy and totally unexpected."—People Magazine
“July’s candor, her fearlessness, in describing the unwieldy emotional and biological nuances of this time of life is refreshing...reading her new novel, as a so-called woman of a certain age, I felt seen in a way that is rare. It was invigorating.”—Wall Street Journal
“An intimate, fearless, and sexy coming-of-middle-age story . . [a] wonderfully weird adventure.” —TIME
“It’s not just that Miranda July’s latest novel is so propulsive you might have to cancel plans or set aside PTO just to scarf it down. It’s that her dazzlingly horny intelligence wrestles with marriage, queerness, and desire by turns sweet and hilarious, making even the smallest pangs of desire sizzle.”—Vulture
“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...Miranda July has given women in their 40s something totally new to want, plus permission to want it.”—Emily Gould, The Cut
“Deeply funny and achingly true….Reading All Fours feels like being seen, like being caught and held, making those connections and realizing that our experiences are not so isolating …July’s commitment to widening the space when it comes to our sexuality is joyfully radical.” —LA Times
“All Fours cast a spell on me and was hard to emerge from."—The Yale Review