Presented by Karen Finlay

It’s the 12th anniversary of The Tiki Oasis Book Club! This year we will readEve's Hollywoodby Eve Babitz.

Review on Good Reads “Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Eve’s Hollywood is an album of  vivid snapshots of Southern California’s haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz’s prose might appear careening, she’s in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This “daughter of the wasteland” is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds—and every bit as seductive as she is.”

Hostess with the mostest books, Karen Finlay, is the founder of The Mid-Century Supper Club Potluck, and owner of Alibi Bookshop in Vallejo, CA. When she’s not reading, she’s crafting cute felt brooches - something she never thought she would do! But books, book clubs, and Tiki Oasis are her very favorite things, and combining them for the past 12 years has been a dream come true.