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Hello,
In the New Year, we’re making some changes to the Book Club which I think you’ll like.
From now on, we’ll be focusing on classic true stories rather than new releases. The reason for this is simple: we want to be a more book-clubby book club from now on. By that I mean: we want to make more room for discussion of the actual book with our wonderful subscribers, rather than talking to the author about their own work. I think this will let us all be more curious and honest in the future, discussing our responses as readers and enjoying being a community.
Running the Green Knowe readalong has been such a great experience, not least because it’s been life-giving to read all your responses in the posts each week. So I hope to bring a little of that spirit into the New Year. I’ll be recording an extra post with halfway through each month to delve into the text as we all read together, and we’ll also be inviting a special guest for a final live recording in the last week of each month.
I hope that will be a lot more fun, and give us all a chance to really think about true stories - books that guide us to the beating heart of life - as we continue to seek routes though this troubling era. Books that shift perspectives, invite us to experience the world more deeply, express feelings that we didn’t know how to voice. I’m thinking about essay collections such as Braiding Sweetgrass or All About Love, memoirs like The Year of Magical Thinking or Journal of a Solitude, hard-to-define books like The Spell of the Sensuous. Maybe you have some suggestions. I’d love to hear them in the comments.
We’ll be starting in January with an icy, ecstatic favourite of mine: A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter. There’s a live event in January - watch this space for more information in the New Year.
In the meantime, take care.
Katherine
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