About us
There’s a new book club in the town and it’s lit!
You’re very familiar with the dread of impending end of the book you’re immersed in? Know the exhaustion of the day after staying up all night just to get through that next chapter? You’re unabashedly proud of your tsundoku tendencies? And above all - can’t stop thinking about what you just read and absolutely need to talk about it all with the fellow sufferers?
Then join “It’s lit!”, the newest book club in Antwerp, where we’ll choose (the hardest part!), read and discuss all from literary classics, debate stirring books and the hottest picks of the moment, hoping to avoid that horror of readgret!
We’ll try to have some structure to our discussions in order to keep everybody engaged and to make even the newest of newbies feel at ease.
All welcome, but please leave any sort of bigotry between your own four walls.
Upcoming events
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March into: “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino
Beestenbos, Sint-Andriesplaats 17,, Antwerp, BELast year we marched in our planet’s orbit, this time we offer more earthly pleasures, however fantastic and far in time and space they may be.
“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino (165)
According to one promising review this is a book worth many a rereading: A great work of literature is a city we can return to throughout our lives, and each time appreciate different sights…By page 13 of Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” the book feels like a sorcerer’s travelogue dipped in a vat of psilocybin—a Lonely Planet in which all of the destinations are imaginary and none of the directions make any sense.
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he actually is describing just one and not the plurality the title conjures.
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Past events
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