About us
We are a book club for people who like to talk about books!
We read current-ish fiction (last 15 years) that is already in paperback and has won or been nominated for any award. We pick books that highlight diverse stories from diverse authors around the word. The folks who come to the meeting vote on the next book.
We (usually) meet the third Thursday of the month at 8 pm in East Lake.
Upcoming events
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Let's discuss the book "Julia" by Sandra Newman
Intown Retreat, 102 Church St, Decatur, GA 30030, Atlanta, GA, US##
This meeting will be in-person at The Intown Retreat in Decatur.
For February's meeting, we will read "Julia" by Sandra Newman.
The people who come will vote on the next book. Bring ideas please!
We will still try to read current-ish fiction (last 15 years) that represents diverse voices, is already in paperback, and has won or been nominated for any award (I'm a snob).
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About our book:
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen—cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department—a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith—when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note—a potentially suicidal gesture—she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.
Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.
Literary awards
The Kitschies for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2024), The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books Nominee for Longlist (2024)2 attendees
Past events
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