Girls in Capes

Meet Our 2024 Book Club Lineup

by Girls in Capes | January 8, 2024 | Books, Events | 0 Comments

We can't believe it's been over a decade since we first started meeting every month at Main Point Books for the original Girls in Capes Book Club. Our meetup has survived ten years, a store move, a pandemic, and countless other shakeups—and we're still going strong....

Join us for our 2024 Book Club Holiday Book Swap

by Feliza Casano | November 18, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments

Join us at 4 p.m. on December 7, 2024 for our annual Holiday Book Swap at Main Point Books.

10th Anniversary Book Club: When Women Were Dragons

by Feliza Casano | October 14, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments

Join us at 4 p.m. on November 16, 2024 for a book club discussion of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill at Main Point Books.

10th Anniversary Book Club: The Midnight Bargain

by Feliza Casano | September 16, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments

Join us at 4 p.m. on October 19, 2024 to discuss THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN by C.L. Polk at Main Point Books.

10th Anniversary Book Club: The Scholomance Trilogy

by Feliza Casano | August 12, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments

Join us at 4 p.m. on September 21, 2024 for a special book club discussion of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance Trilogy at Main Point Books.

REVIEW: Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

by Feliza Casano | July 29, 2024 | Books | 0 Comments

Kiersten White’s feminist take on Bram Stoker’s DRACULA is startlingly relevant and dying to be discussed with friends.

Book Club: FEED

by Feliza Casano | Nov 1, 2019 | Books, Events

Join us for our November book club discussion of FEED by Mira Grant. This modern classic is an adult science fiction tale of a team of news bloggers covering a presidential election in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. From the publisher: The year was 2014. We had...

The Future Is Alive and It’s Beautiful and Female

by Janelle Smith | Oct 25, 2019 | Anime & Manga, TV & Film

Want to learn more about the animations mentioned above? Steven Universe Maquia LGBTQ Representation in Children's Cartoons [coffee]

Amalgam Book Club: Ladycastle

by Feliza Casano | Oct 15, 2019 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Events

Join us for the Amalgam Monthly Book Club's November meetup, where we will discuss the trade paperback of Ladycastle written by Delilah S. Dawson and illustrated by Ashley A. Woods. From the publisher: When King Mancastle and his mighty vassals ride off on crusade,...

Book Club: The Midnight Bargain

Join us at 5 p.m. on September 17 for our in-person discussion of C.L. Polk’s THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA.

Book Club: The Unspoken Name

Join us at 5 p.m. Eastern on August ## at Main Point Books for a book club discussion of A.K. Larkwood’s award-nominated debut THE UNSPOKEN NAME.

Book Club: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

Join us at Main Point Books at 5 p.m. on July 16 for an in-person discussion of Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s queer graphic novel.

Amalgam Book Club: My Brother’s Husband, Vol. 1

by Feliza Casano | Anime & Manga, Events

Join us June 5 at Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse, Inc. to discuss this manga onmibus.

Amalgam Book Club: Infidel

by Feliza Casano | Comics & Graphic Novels, Events

Our November discussion of INFIDEL will take place 6 p.m. at Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse on November 7.

Our Favorite Things: Werewolf Transformations

by Gabrielle Taub | Aug 16, 2017 | Editorial, TV & Film

Whether you’re Team Vampire or Team Werewolf, you have to admit: on-screen werewolf transformations can make or break a scene. And because writers feel free to cherry-pick from werewolf mythology to their heart’s content, these transformations can look and feel very...

Pushback: How Military Video Game Evolution Echoes the Evolution of War Films

by Joel Wallick | Gaming, TV & Film

Visual media has a long and complex history with war. Even since the beginning of the medium films have been attempting to portray war on screen. Sometimes it was for blatant propaganda, and sometimes it was an honest attempt to get to the heart of the issue. In the...

When (Film) Cells Divide: Unpacking an Inhuman Ending to Annihilation

by Hannah Pingelton | TV & Film

Warning! This article contains major spoilers for the 2018 film Annihilation. --- I once saw someone on Twitter say Carly Rae Jepsen is only popular because her songs are musical rorschach blots. It’s a theory that explains why a movie like Inception is so popular,...

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