Our book choices for summer term 2024 have been made and we are looking forward to carnivorous plants and lovely flowers, Titanic survivors and Neanderthal recreations, and a mixture of classics and contemporaries. We kick things off on May 16, 2024 with some classic science-fiction: The Day of the Triffids […]
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It is time to set up a new reading schedule! Make sure to join our planning session on April 11, 2024—only those who participate in the reading selection may complain about it later. 😉 As a reminder, these are the rules and guidelines we have established as our book club’s […]
What do you do when you have only five discussion slots to fill in a term but twenty-five book suggestions to fill them? Where do you lean when every single book pitch sounds intriguing? How do you cope when promising read after promising read has to be dropped? Well, you […]
Our reading list for winter term 2023/2024 has been completed and leads us into horror, suspense, and thrill—while still ending on a wholesome note. We start with a post-Halloween special on November 9, 2023 with some classic horror retold: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe&What […]
Our club member Ronja smiled about this brilliant suggestion in a Twitter/X post by Lena Dunham: Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. Lena Dunham’s Twitter/X Let us prepare for that eighth day. It is time to set up a […]
Our book choices for summer term 2023 have been made and we are looking forward to surgeons and chemists, to time travel and queer identity. We kick things off on May 11, 2023 with romance, corpses, and mystery: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz “Hazel Sinnett is a lady […]
It is time to set up a new reading schedule! Make sure to join our planning session on April 13, 2023—only those who participate in the reading selection may complain about it later. 😉 As a reminder, these are the rules and guidelines we have established as our book club’s […]
Our reading schedule for winter term 2022/2023 has been decided and it is a mix of murder and mystery, family and fantasy, and—above all—love. We kick things off on November 10, 2022 with a world-wide book phenomenon: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The 2018 coming-of-age and murder-mystery novel […]
Our club member Kristin found this devastating poem based off a blog post by Brian Bilston: Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group,when the books would gather together to discuss Graham. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly.“Why doesn’t he read us?” whined […]