The Guardian Book Club takes on Ahdaf Soueif's wonderful, award-winning novel over the next four weeks, with essay one, on languages in the novel, appearing today. The Book Club's chair, John Mullan, will host an event with Soueif on November 25th at the Guardian Newsroom in London: tickets available from book [dot] club [at] guardian [dot] co [dot] uk, or on 020 7886 9281.
The PEN Atlas is looking to start an online book club -- nominate your choice of titles here!
I'd like to join the book club, Sophie, although an online one sounds like less fun than a real one - I'd rather talk then type...
ReplyDeleteHow would it work?
How about Cell Block Five by Fadhil Al-Azzawi, one of your previous recommendations?
"Live" book clubs have a lot going for them, but they are limited to people who can make one place, one time. What's great about the Guardian book club is that it provides a structure for *lots* of live clubs reading simultaneously, having face-to-face discussions, and joined into a bigger network that stimulates further discussion and ideas via the newspaper and the web...
ReplyDeleteCould this blog do something similar??? Different clubs (from all over the world!) could post about their take on the book over the month of reading...