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This email contains:
- An update from most recent book club get-together
- List of up-coming book club dates
- Three curated book suggestions that might be of interest
- Three curated short stories for those of you who want to read more but are struggling with time…
Let’s get this show on the road…
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01. Update from most recent book club get-together:
We met at Null62 in the Bogen to discuss Not the End of the World & The Shining. We were a perfect group of 6 avid readers.
Books/novellas that people in the group have read recently and recommended OR that were mentioned in discussions:
- There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
- Written in Tears by Arupa Patangia Kalita
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Schlaf gut!: Das Geheimnis erholsamer Nachtruhe by Guy Meadows
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews
- Julia by Sandra Newman
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- The Babysitter by Robert Coover
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List of up-coming book club meetings & gatherings
Feel free to register and join us. Please be sure to read at least one of the books – it’s difficult to have a discussion about books if no one reads them!
14 April: Monthly Monday Meetup: Brave New World & The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Register: https://lu.ma/4hco9loi
5 May (Date changed): Monthly Monday Meetup: Human Acts & Wordslut
https://lu.ma/p9riz8e5
16 June (NEW!): Monthly Monday Meetup: Garden of Evening Mists & Ship of Magic
https://lu.ma/0v7civ4y
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Three curated book suggestions that might be of interest
I try to offer three very different genres to prompt us to read widely AND wildly. Ignore or try them out – it’s up to you.
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzanian author)
Review: https://www.litnet.co.za/penafrican-theft-by-abdulrazak-gurnah-a-book-review/
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird by Sy Montgomery
Reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208145504-what-the-chicken-knows
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57423872-twelve-caesars
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Three curated short stories for those of you who want to read more but are struggling with time…
I love short stories because, if done well, they can convey universes in a short wordcount. They’re also good if you want to read more but are feeling a bit “time poor”.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursual K Le Guin
Link: https://files.libcom.org/files/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas.pdf
The Winter Garden by Dorthe Nors
Link: https://shortstoryproject.com/stories/the-winter-garden/
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Link: https://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Hemingway/hemingway-hills
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And that’s it!
Have fun reading! And feel free to get in touch with me at innsbruckreads@suzannewhitby.com if you need anything.
Best wishes,
Suzanne
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