About us
Want to discuss literature with others but don't have time to commit to longer books? In this book club, we focus on short stories so that anybody can join in, even those who only have time to read on the tram! Here's how it works:
- Every week, we announce a selection of short stories in English (possibly translated) freely available online.
- Anybody who wants to participate reads the stories in advance on their own. The texts for any given week usually take an hour or two to read.
- We meet on Sunday to discuss the stories.
Our discussions don't follow a set agenda and are all based on what we happen to find interesting for any given story. The story choices are member-driven, so feel free to suggest anything that interests you!
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Refugee Stories
Språkcaféet, Esperantoplatsen 7-9, Göteborg, SE📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.
📖 About this session
For this week's session, we will be reading stories about and by refugees.
- 👙🚬 Tits for Cigs ~ Téa Mutonji (1,900 words) [2019]
- 👴 The Wall ~ Meron Hadero (5,800 words) [2019]
- 👻💧Black-eyed Woman ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen (5,700 words) [2017]
After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕
7 attendees
💩 Reading Cory Doctorow's fiction
Språkcaféet, Esperantoplatsen 7-9, Göteborg, SE📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.
📖 About this session
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He is an activist in favour of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. He writes essays online on https://pluralistic.net/ and has coined the word “Enshittification" which became the word of the year in 2023.
We are going to read four different stories which show his views and debate both about his style and its content.
- 🖨️ Printcrime PDF (A4) | HTML | Plain text | EPUB [2007] (737 words)
- ⚰️By his things will you know him [2013] (5247 words) Comment by the author
- 📹 Affordances [2019] (5635 words)- Inside the clock tower [2021] (1296 words)
After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕
2 attendees
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