What we’re about
This is a group where we read everything out loud during our meetings — poetry, short stories, plays, novels and non-fiction. Therefore, there’s no need to prepare by reading anything in advance. Either a link to the text will be provided, or we'll do screen-sharing.
You don't have to be a "good reader" to participate; we all get better through practice. It's more fun and more learning happens when people read together, sharing their perspectives.
Another advantage of this format is that we can all react "in the moment" to what we are reading, unlike in regular book clubs where you read the book first, and then forget some of it by the time you actually get to talk about it.
The group was founded by Phyllis in mid-2020, and has been going strong ever since!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Read-Aloud: "Life of Galileo", by Bertholdt BrechtLink visible for attendees
(In our readalouds, the text is screen-shared.)
In all Brecht’s work there is no more substantial and significant landmark than the first version of Galileo, which he wrote in three weeks of November 1938, not long after the Munich agreement had opened the door of Eastern Europe to Hitler. As is well known, it inaugurated the series of major plays whose writing occupied him until his return to Germany some ten years later: from Mother Courage to The Days of the Commune, those great works of his forties on which his reputation largely rests.
Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children (World Classics) (p. 9). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Image from 2017 Young Vic production.
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Latecomers (unless we know you) will generally NOT BE ADMITTED once the reading starts.If this is your first time with us, consider joining five minutes early, so we can work out any technical issues you may be having.
