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.
Upcoming events
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BOOKCLUB: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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 :)
"Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing imagination, and he creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the heart."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406235.Giovanni_s_Room?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=kYG2FgnUqb&rank=111 attendees
BOOKCLUB: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Location not specified yetLet's get together with a drink and discuss this book.
Location to be confirmed soon :)Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7763.The_Joy_Luck_Club?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_812 attendees
Past events
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