November 2025 Book Club Meetup

Join us for our November Book Club Meetup! We'll gather at WetStone WineBar to discuss Swear on this Life by Renee Carlino.

Imagine opening a book and discovering that someone else has written your life story. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isn’t thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Yet from the very first page, she is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio. This is a story eerily similar to one she knows all to well from her painful past. Is this bestselling debut author the person she thinks it is?

Renée Carlino is a screenwriter and the bestselling author…