Wrenaissance Readers
a Fairfax, Virginia-based William & Mary Book Club
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WHO WE ARE
Alumni. Alumnae. Family & friends from W&M. Olde guard & recent grads. We represent a spectrum of majors & degrees. Generally reading one of the two books we’ve selected, but not always. Some of us are “regulars” who attend monthly & some of us are drop-ins who join for an intriguing title. Some of us stop in just to hear the “book talk” and end up reading the title later. Or not. What matters most is that we gather to learn the way we used to when we walked the bricks on campus.
WHO WE ARE
Alumni. Alumnae. Family & friends from W&M. Olde guard & recent grads. We represent a spectrum of majors & degrees. Generally reading one of the two books we’ve selected, but not always. Some of us are “regulars” who attend monthly & some of us are drop-ins who join for an intriguing title. Some of us stop in just to hear the “book talk” and end up reading the title later. Or not. What matters most is that we gather to learn the way we used to when we walked the bricks on campus.
WHERE WE DO IT
We gather in person every month (except July and Aug) on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm at Kilroy's (5250a Port Royal Road, Springfield VA; owned by Pip Thomas, W&M Class of '69) to eat, drink, analyze the books we've read, and discuss all things W&M!
(No virtual option at this time - sorry!)
WHERE WE DO IT
We gather in person every month (except July and Aug) on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm at Kilroy's (5250a Port Royal Road, Springfield VA; owned by Pip Thomas, W&M Class of '69) to eat, drink, analyze the books we've read, and discuss all things W&M!
(No virtual option at this time - sorry!)
September 2026:
Mad About Jane!
Pride & Prejudice,
Jane Austen
Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive & Untamed Jane,
Devoney Looser
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in her time than we’ve given her credit for, and Looser traces the fascinating and fantastical journey her legacy has taken over the past 250 years.
Book synopsis information copied or paraphrased from Amazon.com.
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