Next week Wednesday we’re meeting to discuss The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. I’ve almost finished the novel and so far my promise of reading a book that doesn’t have weirdness in it, is holding up! Here is all you need to know about our upcoming meeting and all the info about our long summer break.
What you need to know if you are joining our upcoming book club
We are meeting on the 5th of July at 20:00.
Our location is Opzoomerstraat 12C, Studio Tideland
The book club is Bring Your Own Booze, so bring drinks (at least) for yourself.
The book club is pay what you can which will help me to cover the location and snack costs. You can buy me a coffee or use a tikkie.
If you have snack ideas or other suggestions, hit me up!
Most importantly:
If you can’t make it, please let me know! I have some more people on the waiting list and I would love to inform them as early as possible.
What are we reading in October?
Yes, you read that right. After this book club, we are taking a long summer break. August is both too warm and too quiet and I will be on holiday in September, so our next meeting will be early October. And because October is spooky month and we have a lot of time to read, we’ll be delving into House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Everyone was so excited to read this one, that we won’t do a poll. It was somewhat unanimously decided at the book club, so I hope you are all looking forward to it! Some details on House of Leaves: I highly recommend you read a physical copy and not an e-book. It’s very important to see the pages and the colors (get the full-color version), otherwise you’ll miss fun and cool details.
July Book Recommendation
Succession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent • The black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises.
Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself from his family tree. He’s already clipped his name, turning Charles Grossheart, Jr.—son of a billionaire labor exploiter, weapons manufacturer, and climate change denier—into ordinary good-guy Chuck, the “self-made” proprietor of an up-and-coming punk label. But when Daddy threatens to cut him off, Chuck is forced to get a “real job”—and conveniently, an old college friend has just swept back into his life with the perfect opportunity.
Famed Harvard dropout and biotech darling Olivia Watts says she is on the verge of totally reinventing the field of medicine, but when Chuck signs on, he soon discovers that things at the vast Kenosis campus are not quite how they appear. Secret labs, vanished employees, and mutated test subjects seem to be as impossible as they are sinister. Is Olivia simply a scammer, or does her technology threaten to usher humanity toward a far bloodier fate? Moreover, does Chuck—who has never accomplished anything without the aid of Daddy’s money—stand a chance of stopping her? Daniel Hornsby hilariously skewers the insatiable hungers of the ultrarich in a novel that no one will be able to resist sinking their teeth into.
Thanks for reading. Leave suggestions, book recommendations etc. in the comments!