Leaves & Literacy Book Club (March 2026)

Leaf & Petal has our very own book club! Headed up by Maeve and Aleena (usually), Leaves & Literacy is a chance to discover and discuss new books, drink delicious tea, and get an exclusive handmade item! In person spots for this book club are currently limited to a small amount, due to space, but we do hope to expand in the future!

How it works: 

1. Purchase your book club box at the beginning of the month to pick up in store or have shipped to you. (Available for order/pickup/shipping, March 13th)
2. Receive your book club box. Drink your tea and read your book. 
3. Come to the book club meeting at Leaf & Petal the first or second Tuesday of each month (this meeting will be April 14th) where you will discuss the book, enjoy tea and refreshments (provided free of charge), get a 20% discount to shop, and get FIRST chance at signing up for the next month's book club. 

What your package includes:

• The book of the month: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Two small bags of loose leaf tea: Creative and Saffron Rose
• A handmade pair of earrings and charms by Steamed Stardust (Darby).
• Disposable tea bags and two surprise themed stickers!

About Me Talk Pretty One Day: 

This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation.

Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—"You Cant Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.

Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.