English Books & Literature

Get ready creative writers! Inkwell is proud to announce Reading Club, our latest event for the Shanghai writing community. Reading Club is a low stress literature gathering that meets every other Monday evening. We read through through a short short or essay at the meeting and then discuss it. Add Ryan (WechatID: texaswriter) to join our wechat and find out what text is being discussed next. I don't keep Meetup very up to date and everything Inkwell does is organized through its wechat groups, so even if the number of attendees on meetup is low, there's likely an event still going on. Add Ryan, and you can join the wechat group where everything is happening. Some Frequently Asked Questions: What do we do here?: Read classic short stories, short plays, and essays and discuss them. We read them at the meeting, so no advanced reading is required. For second language readers, we distribute the reading in advance to give you extra time. What to bring?: Something to read the text. Phone or tablet words great. What we don't do?: Read giant books in advance. What does it cost?: Free, but please order a drink or snack to support Garden Books. What is Inkwell?: There's a lot of information about the workshop located on the website: www.inkwell.asia. Bring something to write with and we'll see you there!

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Connect with fun-loving, young-at-heart single players (ages 20–45) at a relaxed, board games-inspired evening. Talkspace help visitors, international friends, business professionals, and newcomers integrate into local life, explore local culture, and build language and emotional connections. Talkspace 帮助新到一个城市的旅游者、出差者、工作者能够更加快速的融入到这个新的城市和了解更加地道的当地文化。致力于帮助个人培养语言、沟通能力。建立人与人的语言链接与情感链接空间。 目前我们已经在中国6个城市 组织社群语言活动 🇳🇱🇦🇷🇬🇭🇿🇦🇧🇩🇫🇯🇦🇪🇷🇺🇵🇦🇯🇲🇵🇪🇵🇷🇹🇷🇬🇷🇺🇦🇦🇿 🍹🍻🥤🧉🍹🥤🥂🍇🍒 现场也会有一些零食和水果 There will also be some snacks and fruits available. 🎫：【All Tickets Includes One Drink】 STUDENT学生票¥30 【Show Us your Student Card or ID】 EARLY BIRD早鸟票¥40 = 6$ 【set going On meetup before is early bird 】 REGULAR 预售票¥50 = 7$ AT DOOR现场票¥60 = 8$【At the door buy 】 🍹🍻🥤🧉🍹🥤🥂🍇🍒 📆Saturday 【周六】Fudan Discount ticket特惠¥ 25 only tonight 🟢Talkspace International Students Language Exchange 复旦同济留学生交流会🟢 ⏰:19:00-22:00 【Saturday】 🏠: 复旦科技园副楼一楼路演大厅 📍No 11, Guotai Road,Yangpu District, Shanghai WeChat：17317121983 WhatsApp：+8617317121983 [https://wa.me/8617317121983](https://wa.me/8617317121983) [https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8)

Meet other local people interested in Language Exchange: share experiences, inspire and encourage each other! Join our Shanghai Language Exchange group. Do you speak Spanish🇪🇸, French🇫🇷, German🇩🇪, Hebrew, Portuguese🇵🇹, Italian🇮🇹, Russian🇷🇺, Japanese🇯🇵, Korean🇰🇷, Chinese🇨🇳, Arabic🇦🇪 or English🇬🇧🇺🇸?Practice your Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and English All language levels are welcome! Follow us for upcoming events! 请关注近期精彩社交活动！ 微信公众号 WeChat Official Account: 说会英语 手机（同微信号）Phone Number (Same for): +8617317121983 WhatsApp/WeChat：17317121983 📆周日Sunday, 🟢English Talkspace🟢 ⏰:14:00-16:00 🏠 3/F, No.399 Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District Tomorrow Square, Shanghai:🏠南京西路399号3楼【机遇中心 X-Meta bar】 [https://maps.app.goo.gl/thznK3L37XFo6sTF8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/thznK3L37XFo6sTF8) 📆Wednesday 🟢English&Chinese Talkspace🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/SXwE0VoPIcGgHVI ⏰19:00-21:00 📍 📆周五Friday, 🟢Language Exchange🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/TOXhHCiaBlNSkgr ⏰Time: 19:00---21:40 🏠上海市静安区新闸路1788号3层 3F，No.1788, Xinzha Road, Shanghai [https://maps.app.goo.gl/cdqiGUASXAvjFmPN6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/cdqiGUASXAvjFmPN6) [WhatsApp Group：https://chat.whatsapp.com/BRscBnmLynICxeOQycSvWq](https://chat.whatsapp.com/BRscBnmLynICxeOQycSvWq) 🎫：Early-bird: 40 RMB = 6$ 【set going before 】 normal 50 RMB = 7$ At the Door 60RMB = 8$【At the door buy 】 📆Saturday 【周六】Fudan 🟢Talkspace International Students Language Exchange 复旦同济留学生交流会🟢 ⏰:19:00-22:00 【Saturday】 🏠: 复旦科技园副楼一楼 📍No 11, Guotai Road,Yangpu District, Shanghai WeChat：17317121983 WhatsApp：+8617317121983 https://wa.me/8617317121983 [https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8) #公众号：说会英语 #视频号：说会英语 #小程序://互动吧/h1LX5oWSDmgO10v #小程序://微博/H1VOJN21MjI0Tjx #公众号：说会英语 #视频号：说会英语 #小红书：说会英语 #微 博：说会英语 #战略合作：复旦科技园 Fudan University Science Park 戏外书店 Obook X-meta 说会联盟

Meet other local people interested in Language Exchange: share experiences, inspire and encourage each other! Join our Shanghai Language Exchange group. Do you speak Spanish🇪🇸, French🇫🇷, German🇩🇪, Hebrew, Portuguese🇵🇹, Italian🇮🇹, Russian🇷🇺, Japanese🇯🇵, Korean🇰🇷, Chinese🇨🇳, Arabic🇦🇪 or English🇬🇧🇺🇸?Practice your Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and English All language levels are welcome! Follow us for upcoming events! 📆Saturday 【周六】 🟢 International Students Talkspace留学生交流会🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/Sl7QHUqQbsY1pHC ⏰:19:00-22:00 【Saturday】 🏠: 复旦科技园副楼一楼 📍Fudan science park ▶️location video guide： [https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bmf1TkzZ45SUR2nX8) 🎫：Early-bird: 35 RMB = 5$ 【set going before 】 normal 40 RMB = 6$ At the Door 50RMB = 7$【At the door buy 】 #公众号：说会英语 #视频号：说会英语 #小程序://互动吧/h1LX5oWSDmgO10v #小程序://微博/H1VOJN21MjI0Tjx #公众号：说会英语 #视频号：说会英语 #[小红书：说会英语](https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5f2ccb430000000001000244) Talkspace help visitors, international friends, business professionals, and newcomers integrate into local life, explore local culture, and build language and emotional connections. Breaking language barriers · Creating spaces for dialogue. Through cultural exchange and interactive communities, we connect the world, helping people quickly integrate into new cities and experience authentic local culture. By combining linguistic, physical, and cultural spaces, we promote both cultural development and individual growth.

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For two hours, poets can bring and share work to be critiqued and workshopped by fellow poets. The workshop is in English, but both experienced and new poets are encouraged to attend. Our workshop is very open and accepting. Since we are in China, everything we do is in the wechat group, and the meetup group often looks rather dead. I promise you that we are still active and meeting, but you need to add Ry in order to get to the actual group where people are meeting and discussing poetry. To be added to the WeChat group, add Ry on WeChat. His ID is texaswriter.

Historic Jing'an Citywalk. Meeting time: Wednesday evening 7:00 PM Cost: free to participate, no show penalty is RMB 18 after sign up. After sign up, Please add the host wechat via hawk_cn Meeting point: Exit 3 of People Square metro station, Line 1/2/8 This Wednesday evening, let's explore historic Jing'an area. Starting from Starbucks Rostery near West Nanjing road metro before we stroll to just renovated Zhangyuan. Then we pall Fun min road before we arrive at Jing'an temple. Starbucks Roastery in Shanghai, the world’s largest and a Flagship for Starbucks. The Roastery is both a factory and store, creating a rich sensorial experience wherein customers can watch and follow the coffee roasting process while sampling a variety of coffee beans and preparation styles from around the world. Historic Zhang's Garden reopens as a boutique destination Zhangyuan, or Zhang's Garden, opened in 1885 as China's first modern pleasure garden, but it later decayed into a neighborhood of dilapidated houses. Its former glory has now been restored in the latest round of urban renewal. Zhang Yuan, a community of hundreds of shikumen (a style featuring Western and Chinese elements) houses in downtown Shanghai's Jing'an district, reopen to the public on Dec 1 2022 after four years of protective renovation. Zhang Yuan, a community of hundreds of shikumen (a style featuring Western and Chinese elements) houses in downtown Shanghai's Jing'an district, will partially reopen to the public on Dec 1 after four years of protective renovation. Located just off Nanjing Road West at the corner of Taixing Road and Wujiang Road, Zhang Yuan - or Zhang's Garden - is widely known as Shanghai's largest, best-preserved and most diverse shikumen compound. The compound was named after its founding owner Zhang Shuhe (1850-1919), a merchant from Wuxi in Jiangsu province. Zhang had bought a piece of farmland in Shanghai from a Briton named Francis Groom before building a garden home for his mother. Read less

Welcome to the Chinese corner! This is a space for students who are interested in learning more about Chinese language and culture. We will meet every [week] to practice speaking, listening, and reading Chinese. We will also learn about Chinese history, culture, and traditions. \*\*Activities\*\* \* \*\*Speaking:\*\* We will practice speaking Chinese in a variety of contexts, such as everyday conversations, job interviews, and presentations. \* \*\*Listening:\*\* We will listen to Chinese people improve our listening comprehension skills. \* \*\*Culture:\*\* We will learn about Chinese history, culture, and traditions through presentations, discussions, and field trips. \*\*Materials\*\* \* Chinese textbooks and workbooks 🔴🔴学习中文🔴🔴 age levels are welcome! 👩🏻‍🏫 Teach You local language 🧑🏼‍🏫Learn Chinese Culture Wednesday tonight Language Talkspace【Chinese & English】 Please set(**RSVP**) You're **going**! We'll as you get early-bird ticket 🎫：Early-bird: 40 RMB = 6$ normal 50 RMB = 7$ Chinese And English Talkspace ⏰19:00-21:00 Wednesday 🏠上海福州路620号【百新书局】 📍No.620 Fuzhou Rd, Shanghai https://j.map.baidu.com/1e/ZPhi 【wechat】17317121983 【WhatsApp】8617317121983 location guide：[https://maps.app.goo.gl/bBxq5A2My5x6oxZn9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bBxq5A2My5x6oxZn9) 🔴Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/groups/languageexchangeshanghai](https://www.facebook.com/groups/languageexchangeshanghai) 🔴Whatsapp which you can join here: [https://chat.whatsapp.com/BRscBnmLynICxeOQycSvWq](https://chat.whatsapp.com/BRscBnmLynICxeOQycSvWq) 🔴telegram： Tg channel：[https://t.me/LanguageExchangeinShanghai](https://t.me/LanguageExchangeinShanghai) Tg group：[https://t.me/+JItzaQITqFVlZmZl](https://t.me/+JItzaQITqFVlZmZl) Tg customer service：[https://t.me/LanguageExchangeShanghai](https://t.me/LanguageExchangeShanghai) 小红书 搜： 说会英语 公众号：说会英语 🟢Fiday Language Exchange 🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/TOXhHCiaBlNSkgr ⏰Time: 19:00--21:40 🏠上海市静安区新闸路1788号3层【Language Exchange 老地方】 📍3F，No.1788, Xinzha Road, Shanghai https://j.map.baidu.com/1e/ZPhi 📆Saturday 【周六】 🟢 International Students Talkspace留学生交流会+ Board Games + 创业资源交流🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/nDY3HNCxaJ6AdBI ⏰:19:00-22:00 【Saturday】 🏠: 复旦科技园副楼一楼路演大厅 📍Fudan science park 📆Saturday 【周六】 🎲🎲Board Games 桌游 狼人杀 德州游戏等🎲🎲 #小程序://互动吧/GeK1Hsz5aAgLoqC ⏰:19:00-22:00 【Saturday】 🏠: 复旦科技园副楼一楼 📆Sunday【周日】 🟢English Talkspace🟢 🎟#小程序://互动吧/yueI5wcZKlRwpZv ⏰14:00-16:00 Sunday 🏠 F3, No.399 Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District Tomorrow Square, Shanghai:南京西路399号3楼【机遇中心 X-Meta bar】 #公众号/小红书：说会英语 说会联盟 #视频号：说会英语 #小程序://互动吧/h1LX5oWSDmgO10v #小程序://微博/H1VOJN21MjI0Tjx 🔴Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/languageexchangeshanghai 🔴Whatsapp group which you can join here: [【clickme】+8617317121983](https://wa.me/8617317121983)

Welcome, readers! Our April read is **_Martyr!_ by Kaveh Akbar.** The story follows a young Iranian American poet grappling with grief, addiction, and the aching question of what makes a life meaningful. Drawn into an unexpected friendship with a terminally ill artist, he begins to confront faith, love, and the seduction of self-destruction. Lyrical, darkly funny, and emotionally piercing, the novel wrestles with beauty and despair in equal measure. It’s a story about longing—to be seen, to be forgiven, and to matter. Looking forward to discussing with everyone! We will meet at Zaftig Brewing Co in their event room in the back. We are welcome to bring in our own food, but **drinks must be purchased at the bar.** Happy reading! 📖

Posting this early because seemingly all Sundays in May are holidays or busy! I picked a shorter thriller that's hopefully a fast read/listen. [Columbus library link to book](https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3458940) Location: Grandview Cafe, *1455 W. 3rd Ave*, Columbus, OH 43212 [Menu](https://www.grandviewcafe.com/menu) Book summary: Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He's got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy -- despite the fact that he's suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined to his home, Daniel spends the hours he's not online communicating with irate air travelers observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he's almost sure he sees her being kidnapped.

Join us for our April Book Club gathering where we will come together to discuss *[Stop Me if You've Heard This One](https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com/stopmeifyouveheardthisone)* by [Kristen Arnett](https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com/about) in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts.

Let’s meet and share our thoughts about Carson McCullers’ novella, The Ballad of The Sad Café.

This month we’ll be reading Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Feel free to come even if you don’t finish the book!

Love getting lost in a good book? [The Book Loft](https://www.bookloft.com/) of German Village is an iconic independent bookstore packed with hard-to-find literary treasures! This isn’t your run-of-the-mill bookstore; it’s a 32-room literary wonderland that would make even the most seasoned bibliophile’s head spin (one of the largest in the country)! **MEET**: We'll gather outside the storefront and then start browsing... **DESSERT**: We'll grab some famous macaroons to start our foodie tour. [Pistacia Vera](https://www.pistaciavera.com/) is a delicious bakery and cafe in the German Village. This charming shop is especially known for its classic macarons. **HAPPY HOUR**: Italian drinks and bites at [Cento's happy hour](https://centogermanvillage.com/menus/). **PARKING**: Street parking all around here. Check the parking time limit. The bookstore and the foodie stops are all on 3rd Street within 4 blocks on the same side of the street.

"The SOB is a ballet dancer. He’s the best ballet dancer that ever lived, and if I get a good chance I’ll kill him with my bare hands." - W.C. Fields In *City Lights*, Chaplin's Little Tramp meets a blind girl selling flowers who mistakes him for a wealthy man. When he learns that an operation may restore her sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have the surgery. He also befriends an alcoholic millionaire who only recognizes him when he is drunk. When the blind girl and her grandmother fall behind in the rent and face eviction, he tries working and even enters a boxing competition to raise the money they need. Regarded as Chaplin's masterpiece, *City Lights* has been ranked on more than seventeen "100 greatest movies of all time" lists. Orson Welles cited it as his favorite picture. *City Lights* is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBOMax, Tubi and PlutoTV. The Columbus Library lists three copies on blu-ray and eight copies on DVD. Watch the movie on your own, then join us upstairs at East Market to discuss the film. If you want more, *Unknown Chaplin* is a three-episode lost-footage documentary available on Youtube. It covers his time on *City Lights* beginning at the twenty-six minute mark of episode two: https://youtu.be/f8960Uc15hI?t=1558