With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. […]
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This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The twelfth day of Christmas, with twelve drummers drumming—the final recommendations drum roll: The Monk and Robot Duology by Becky Chambers recommended by PADERBORN2READ member […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The eleventh day of Christmas, with eleven pipers piping—the opening notes to our recommendations finale: The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman recommended by […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The tenth day of Christmas, with ten lords a-leaping—and yet another sci-fi epos unfolding on an unwelcoming planet: Salt by Adam Roberts recommended by PADERBORN2READ […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The ninth day of Christmas, with nine ladies dancing—to a feminist sci-fi classic: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin recommended by […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The eighth day of Christmas, with eight maids a-milking—presumably somewhere in the country: A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr recommended by PADERBORN2READ […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The seventh day of Christmas, featuring seven swans a-swimming—and also coinciding with New Year’s Eve: Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors recommended by PADERBORN2READ member […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The sixth day of Christmas, featuring six geese a-laying—and a story born from apartheid: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The fifth day of Christmas, featuring five gold rings—and a story set in motion by aliens: We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson recommended […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The fourth day of Christmas, with four calling birds—or four howling wolves: Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt recommended by PADERBORN2READ member […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The third day of Christmas, with three French hens—possibly symbolising the Holy Trinity: The Shack by William Paul Young recommended by PADERBORN2READ member Yasha Mackenzie […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The second day of Christmas, with two turtle doves—and their four wings (dove-dragon joke intended): Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros recommended by PADERBORN2READ member Larissa […]
This year, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club celebrates the twelve days of Christmas with twelve curated reading recommendations for the festive season and cozy winter days. The first day of Christmas, the partridge in a pear tree so to speak: The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter recommended […]
We discussed Timothy Schaffert’s The Titanic Survivors Book Club on June 13, 2024. This 2024 novel follows the curator of the RMS Titanic’s second-class library, who was left stranded at the docks when the catastrophic maiden voyage began. He soon receives an invitation to a secret society of Titanic survivors. […]
We discussed Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden as part of our Secret garden party on May 23, 2024. This 1911 tale of Mary, Dickon, and Colin, the atmospheric Yorkshire Moors, and the titular locked-up garden has been a beloved classic of children’s literature for more than a century. PADERBORN2READ […]
We discussed John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids on May 16, 2024. This 1951 novel is sometimes considered the most famous catastrophe novel of the 20th century. When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen finds himself trapped in a London jammed with […]
We discussed Alison McGhee’s What I Leave Behind and Lize Meddings’s The Sad Ghost Club I on March 14, 2024. McGhee’s 2019 YA novel tells the story of sixteen-year-old Will, who tries to cope with the misery of his father’s suicide by doing some good in the world and to […]
We discussed Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House on February 8, 2024. Set on the prestigious Yale campus, this 2019 fantasy novel introduces us to an unlikely Yale freshman: Galaxy “Alex” Stern was raised by a hippie mother, dropped out of school, worked shady odd jobs, and solely survived an unsolved multiple […]