For this year’s culture week, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club took a full tour of Howl’s moving castle by discussing Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 children’s novel and Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 anime adaptation by the same title. Here are some impressions from an afternoon filled with magical moments and in-depth discussions of […]
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PADERBORN2READ organizes an afternoon all about Howl’s Moving Castle as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Culture Week. May 28, 2026 2.00–6.00 p.m. J3.213 Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 children’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. While being a beloved classic to some, it is still a somewhat lesser-known […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes an afternoon on “dystopia and reality”, based on the modern classic The Hunger Games, as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Culture Week. June 12, 2025 2.00–7.00 p.m. J4.219 & J4.319 Young adult dystopias are becoming modern classics—in times of dystopian fiction turning into dystopian reality. […]
Our reading list for summer term 2025 has been completed and promises psychopathic and dystopian stories, experimental reading experiences, feminist science fiction as well as some classic fantasy. May 8, 2025: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club and FRAG, the student committee representing Paderborn University’s students of Romanic Studies, English and American Studies, and Germanic Studies, organized an afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week this summer term. Book lovers from different departments of Paderborn University as […]
Only two more weeks to go and there are exciting news to share about our very bookish afternoon: PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes the very bookish afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week and has now joined hands with FRAG, the student committee representing […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes an afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week. May 30, 2023 3.00–8.00 p.m. J4.219 Book Exhibition & Book Grab (3.00–6.00 p.m.) Throughout the afternoon there is an open exhibition of members’ book favourites and other reading recommendations as well […]
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 […]