Book Club Author Interview · #1
Lauren F. Sharma
Casualties of Truth
Book Club Author Interview with Lauren F. Sharma — a live Apex Affect Virtual Book Club conversation on identity, resilience, and the interior lives of Black women.
Community Wellness
The Apex Affect Book Club
A community wellness space for belonging, healing, conversation, and social connection.
Alicia
Renée
Live · Book ClubVirtual · Monthly
Fall Selection
Now Reading: Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
Our fall book is Sugar by award-winning author Bernice L. McFadden (20th Anniversary Edition) — and she's joining us live.
Author Chat
Sunday, October 18th, 2026
1pm PST / 4pm EST · Live on Zoom
Bring a friend, ask questions, give praises and get to know the woman behind the work!
- 9/13through Ch. 5
- 9/20Ch. 6 – Ch. 9
- 9/27Ch. 10 – Ch. 13
- 10/4Ch. 14 – Ch. 17
- 10/11Ch. 18 – END
- 10/18Author Chat with Bernice McFadden
Zoom Meeting ID: 873 0381 8965 · Tap In, Connect, Grow
The Room
Where Belonging Reads Together
The PageThe ConversationThe Next ReadBelonging
Belonging Is The Design
The Apex Affect Book Club is not just a reading group. It is a structured community wellness space designed to reduce isolation, support mental health, and create consistent belonging for adults navigating life transitions, grief, widowhood, economic instability, and the need for deeper connection.
The Apex Affect Book Club has read together, hosted live author conversations, and built a community of consistent participants who return month after month because this space gives them something rare: genuine belonging without conditions.
Members have described the book club as the thing that brought them back to life again, the place that reminded them they still have a voice worth hearing and a community worth showing up for.
That is not an accident. It is the design.
Community Proof
Books, Authors, Conversations, Community
Each book, author conversation, and gathering is part of a larger wellness strategy: conversation as connection, reading as reflection, and community as care.
Featured
Author Videos
Past author conversations show the depth, trust, and community voice built through The Apex Affect Book Club.
Book Club Author Interview · #2
Shadeqa Johnson
The House of Eve
Book Club Author Interview with Shadeqa Johnson — a live Apex Affect Virtual Book Club conversation on womanhood, story, and community as care.
Book Club Author Interview · #3
Dr. Ian
The Unspoken
Book Club Author Interview with Dr. Ian — a live Apex Affect Virtual Book Club conversation on healing, purpose, and the practice of showing up whole.
Previous Features
Books We've Read Together
A look back at previous book features from the Apex Affect Virtual Book Club — every cover marks a shared reading month, a live author conversation, and a community that showed up.
Book Club News
Stay Connected To Our Virtual Book Club Community
Now Reading
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden — Author Chat Sunday, October 18th, 2026, 1pm PST / 4pm EST.
Drop your email below to get the reading schedule, meeting reminders, and live author conversation invites.
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Book Club merch helps fund the conversations, programming, author engagement, and community support that keep this space accessible.
Now Available · Bonfire
Book Club T-shirt Fundraiser
Get your t-shirt today. Buying a t-shirt gives you a cool shirt to wear — and helps us spread the word about the Book Club and the organization at large. Every purchase directly supports Apex Affect programming.
$30.00
T-shirt fundraiser
Royal purple cotton tee with embroidered crown. Wear the mission.
Mugs
Cream ceramic mug for slow mornings and Book Club chapters.
Water bottles
Matte black steel bottle with gold crown emblem.
Apex Affect merch
Cream canvas tote with gold-embroidered crown.
Community Voices
What members say.
“This is the room I keep coming back to. It reminded me my voice still matters.”
Book Club member · Los Angeles
“For the first time in a long time I felt like myself in a room full of people. That is what this space does.”
Book Club member · Long Beach
“I came in grieving. I stayed because these women held me in a way I didn't know I needed.”
Book Club member · Inglewood