We are taking our long summer break and won’t be back until early October. Then we’ll discuss House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, an experimental horror novel about a house that is bigger on the inside. I’ve read the book before and am very excited to go back in and discuss it with the book club. It’s a long read, but luckily we have plenty of time! I do advice to buy the paper edition of this book and the full-color one if you can. It will enhance the experience!
Here are the important details:
We are meeting on the 4th of October at 20:00.
The book club is at Opzoomerstraat 12C, Studio Tideland
The book club is Bring Your Own Booze, so bring drinks (at least) for yourself.
Want to join? Email me at boredtodeathbookclub@gmail.com to reserve your seat. I will email you back with a confirmation. I only take email reservations because social media sign ups are a bit more uncertain.
The book club is free, but donations are welcome to help cover the location costs. You can buy me a coffee or use a tikkie.
Have ideas for the book club? I love to hear it!
What to read next if you enjoyed The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li has written quite a lot of books, but the one she’s most known for is her previous book Where Reasons End. It’s a conversation between a mother and her child after the child committed suicide. A very poignant subject for the author because it was written after her own son killed himself. At the book club we talked plenty about how The Book of Goose was similar to Ferrante’s Naeopolitan novels, so that’s an easy recommendation. Another book it reminded me of, was The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, which is a novel about two friends who make art together and how this impacts their friendship. A final suggestion would be to read The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, a novel about four teenagers who have aged out of the foster system and now live in an abandoned automobile town.
The Book of Goose Recap
We had so much to say about this one! Most of us liked the book, but didn’t love it. The overall opinion was that the book started out interesting, that the writing was good, but that it kind of dragged near the middle. This might have been the point, to show how Agnès wasn’t enjoying her life and just wanted it to be over, but writing that makes us feel bored is still a little boring. We agreed that the relationship between Agnès and Fabienne was intense and strange and had quite the discussion whether or not it was romantic or just friendship. It definitely read well, Li being a very experienced and great writer, but most people didn’t fully get all the praise for this book. Some of us were curious about reading another book by her though, so at least we got to know a new writer and had a fun and interesting night!
If you made it this far, then here’s a secret book recommendation for you. Thanks for reading!