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 […]
Twelve days of Christmas commendations: “Born a Crime”
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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 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 […]
The Secret Santa Book Swap has been a beloved book club tradition since its inception three years ago. This holiday season, we continued the tradition and spread book enthusiasm and holiday spirit. For this term’s December session, all fifteen participants selected a book that they have read and wanted somebody […]
Our reading list for winter term 2024/2025 has been completed and promises spooky and weird, heart-breaking and heart-warming stories. November 24, 2024—post-Halloween special: Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh If you eat the bread, you’ll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. […]
Our club member Ronja is most definitely guilty of this bookish but unproductive pastime: Tsundoku—the act of acquiring books and letting them pile up without reading them Sketchplanations Let us get some reading done. It is time to set up a new reading schedule! Make sure to join our planning […]
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 […]
written by PADERBORN2READ member Maty Parzival “‘Oh, Dickon! Dickon! Dickon!’ she said. ‘I’m so happy I can scarcely breathe!’” On a rainy Thursday, in the early hours of a January morning, a group of orphans arrived— Alright, no, actually, on a sunny afternoon where the wind was nice and the […]
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 […]
PADERBORN2READ organizes an afternoon all about the literary and film classic The Secret Garden as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week. May 23, 2024 2.00–6.00 p.m. J4.319 & campus grounds The 1911 tale of Mary, Dickon, and Colin, the atmospheric Yorkshire Moors, and the titular locked-up garden has been […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]