17 N Federal Ave
Mason City, IA 50401
USA
Brewery book club meets once a month (3rd Wednesday of each month, at 7pm). Anyone is welcome to come or not come based on their interest in that month’s book. No commitment, no stress…just a change to learn something new, share your opinions and meet fellow super nerds. July book choice is Persuasion. In Persuasion, as in such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Austen limned the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men. At the same time, Persuasion offers an ironic and subtle paean to the true love that enables one woman to rise above straitened economic circumstances and the stifling social conventions that restricted women to narrowly circumscribed lives in the common sitting room.