Innsbruck Reads

Monthly Monday Book Club: The Man with the Compound Eyes + The Emperor of All Maladies

Innsbruck Reads: Bi-lingual Book Club & Reading Group in Innsbruck
This month, we'll be reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Der König aller Krankheiten / Krebs - eine Biographie) by Siddhartha Mukherjee and The Man with the Compound Eyes (Der Mann mit den Facettenaugen) by Wu Ming-Yi. Choose one, both, or just join us to be part of the conversation.

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Our regular monthly-ish book discussion. Choose from two titles. Feel free to read one or both books. We try to choose books that are available in English and German, as well as other languages. Read in whatever language makes you happy!

If you don’t finish the book and still want to be part of the discussion, come along anyway: we’ll do our best to avoid spoilers.

​​​​The titles in English & Deutsch:

Book 1: The Man with the Compound Eyes
DE: Der Mann mit den Facettenaugen
by Wu Ming-Yi

Book 2: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
DE: Der König aller Krankheiten / Krebs – eine Biographie
by Siddhartha Mukherjee

​​​​Format:

​​​​30 minutes introductions + discussing recent reads and book recommendations. 60-90 mins to discuss the book selections of the month, and whatever else arises!
DE: 30 Minuten für Vorstellungsrunde + Austausch über aktuelle Lektüre und Buchempfehlungen. 60 bis 90 Minuten, um die Buchauswahl des Monats zu besprechen und was sonst noch so anfällt!

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Monthly Monday Book Club: Of Time and Turtles + A Whole Life

Time
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CET
Venue
LEOKINO Innsbruck (Bar area)

This month, we'll be reading A Whole Life (Ein ganzes Leben) by Robert Seethaler, and Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell (Tête-à-Tête mit einer Schildkröte / Was die Urwesen uns zu sagen haben) by Sy Montgomery. Choose one, both, or jus...

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