About us
A relaxed book club meeting once or twice a month to read, reflect, and discuss a book together over a coffee or drink.
This group was created out of a simple idea: a growing stack of wonderful books and the desire to share thoughts, impressions, and conversations around them.
The atmosphere is informal and welcoming — no pressure to be an expert, just a love of reading and conversation.
Some General information:
- New events will be published a few weeks in advance to allow time for reading.
- Everyone is welcome.
- Discussions will be in English.
- A confirmation message will be sent about one week prior to the event to help finalise attendance and give others time to read the book.
- Please RSVP only if you’re reasonably sure you can attend.
- If something comes up and you’re unable to make it, kindly update your RSVP asap so someone on the waitlist can join.
Thank you for helping keep the group welcoming and fair for everyone.
Featured event
BOOKCLUB: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn
Let's get together with a drink and discuss this book :)
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Kq4ar89dGg&rank=4
Upcoming events
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BOOKCLUB: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (round 2)
La grande colette, 10 Rue Saint-Martin, 75004 Paris, Paris, FRLet's get together with a drink and discuss this book.
Location to be confirmed soon :)
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naĂŻve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44890081-my-dark-vanessa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zhULtTnx80&rank=1(round 2)4 attendeesBOOKCLUB: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn
Location not specified yetLet's get together with a drink and discuss this book :)
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Kq4ar89dGg&rank=412 attendees
BOOKCLUB: Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut
La grande colette, 10 Rue Saint-Martin, 75004 Paris, Paris, FRLet's get together with a drink and discuss this book.
Location to be confirmed soon :)The runaway international bestseller—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.
A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door, the bird acts like a member of the family, and his parents dance to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into mental illness, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens.
Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents and from George’s journals, detailing the epic love story with his wife, this charming, heartbreaking gem of a novel will stay with you long after the final page. As we read, their love story becomes ours.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538667-waiting-for-bojangles11 attendees
Past events
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