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Read carefully. Discuss freely.

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Club Pitch

If three or four Persons agree to read the same Book, and each bring his own Remarks upon it at some set Hours appointed for Conversation, and they communicate mutually their Sentiments on the Subject, and debate about it in a friendly Manner, this Practice will render the Reading any Author more abundantly beneficial to every one of them.

Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind (1741)

And the following month...

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A young scientist discovers that creating life is easier than managing the consequences, and unleashes one of literature's greatest monsters: someone obsessed with John Milton. Frankenstein is thrilling, funny in places, tragic, and surprisingly human — a Gothic rollercoaster powered by bad decisions and a whirlwind tour across Europe.