Book Group
Read carefully. Discuss freely.
A ticketed book group for readers who enjoy serious books and good conversation.
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...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
José Arcadio Buendía builds the town of Macondo out of the jungle, out of nothing; his descendants repeat his obsessions, his names, and his mistakes down the decades. This is the book that made 'magical realism' a household phrase — a world where a man really can be followed around by yellow butterflies, where ice is a marvel and a massacre is forgotten by everyone but one man.