Classics

[close] Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of the most beloved and bestselling sci-fi novels of all time – and soon to be a major motion picture (again)! Whether you’re coming to Dune for the first time or the twentieth, join us for a read-along before the movie premieres in 2020. Amy Ratcliffe will be a moderator. Amy is the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, a host, and an entertainment reporter published at Nerdist, StarWars.com, IGN, and more. Based in Los Angeles, Amy often has her nose in a book. We’ll be taking our page numbers from the brand-new deluxe hardcover edition, available everywhere books are sold on October 1st, 2019, but we’ll include enough details for you to follow along with any edition.

[close] We are a Brisbane based bookclub that meets up at the Brisbane Square Library in Room 1.3 at 5.30pm on the first Friday of every month to eat snacks and talk books. Join Us! We are currently choosing one classic to read a month and voting for two other books. We read a wide range of books but we tend to lean towards fantasy more often than not. Happy for you to throw you picks in the ring and convince us to read something else!

[close] Ankara'da düzenli olarak buluşan ve grup üyelerinin birlikte seçtiği kitapları okuyan bir kitap kulübü. Şu ana kadar okunmuş kitaplar: 1. J. M. Coetzee - Utanç 2. Sophie Mackintosh - Su Kürü 3. Doris Lessing - İyi Terörist

[close] Welcome to the Roundtable Our passions include literary fiction, the classics, and serious non-fiction. In 2019 we've planned structured reads in the following categories: Fiction, Author Reads, Books in Translation, New Fiction and Nonfiction. Perhaps you'd like to join in our year-long BINGO game? Or you can sign on for our yearly TBR reading challenge, and the year-long International Challenge, or revive the threads from past projects and group reads. We also invite you to our list [of books, of course] making frenzy, or to add a discussion thread for your favorite author. The fine print: We're a smallish group, but active, and we'd like to have actively participating members. If you've been a member for more than four months without participating, we will assume that you are not interested in the group and you will be subject to deletion (one post after acceptance into the group is not considered active). This may take the form of participation in one of the structured features described above or something more free-form. While we've all got our guilty pleasures -- vampires in love, celebrity gossip, books from our childhoods -- these books don't fit with the group's vision and purpose. It's strictly "quality" writing for an adult audience; for us this means literary fiction, the classics, and serious non-fiction. We like to see a diversity of opinions about what we read and a strong passion for books is a plus. However, we ask that our group members keep it about the books; be respectful of others and refrain from the ad hominem. Finally, you'll see that we're a private group and you'll need to "apply" to join us. This means that we'd like a word from you about why you'd like to join and what you're hoping to get from a group. It also helps if we can see your shelves and your profile. If your profile is set to private, you will not be approved for membership in the group.