Classics Book Club London ages 20-45

Hi all!

If you want to meet in a casual atmosphere over a drink or even a bite of food 🍔, join us for a discussion of the book and overall chatting about books. Whether you are an advanced bookish person or just starting out:
Everybody is welcome! 📚

We usually meet near a pub by the London Bridge, a book will be placed on the table for you to find us. New members are always welcome. :)

It is always my aim to read Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. I was planning for 2025 as a challenge for the year, but know myself well, better to give myself more slack.

The series has 7 books according to Wikipedia, but I am a big fan of Penguin Modern Classics, so I will follow that order, which has 6 books.

Aim to finish one book every two month,

• 2024 Oct 1: Volume 1
• 2024 Dec 1: Volume 2
• 2025 Feb 1: Volume 3
• 2025 Apr 1: Volume 4
• 2025 Jun 1: Volume 5
• 2025 Aug 1: Volume 6
• 2025 Oct 1: Closing session

Let's see if we can persist and make it to the end.

Hi all!

On top of regular monthly sessions, we are going back to the root of the book club, the big door stoppers. We aim to give 3 months of advanced notice, so no more excuse of not able to read it. Just do it!👌

Usual message:

If you want to meet in a casual atmosphere over a drink or even a bite of food 🍔, join us for a discussion of the book and overall chatting about books. Whether you are an advanced bookish person or just starting out:
Everybody is welcome! 📚

We usually meet near a pub by the London Bridge, a book will be placed on the table for you to find us. New members are always welcome. :)

New people always welcome - just make sure you read the correct set of essays, listed below! All of these essays are available to read for free online - see links below.

We're pleased to announce the third meeting of our new Montaigne reading group! You don't need to have attended the first two sessions to come along - just make sure you read the same essays as us, listed below. We are aiming to read all of Montaigne's essays over an extended period. For our third meeting we will read essays 41-57 essays from the Penguin Classics Complete Essays edition, thus finishing off the first volume, totalling just under 100 pages. The essays for this meeting are:

41.) On not sharing one's fame.
42.) On the inequality there is between us.
43.) On sumptuary laws.
44.) On sleep.
45.) On the Battle of Dreux.
46.) On names.
47.) On the uncertainty of our judgement.
48.) On war-horses.
49.) On ancient customs.
50.) On Democritus and Heraclitus.
51.) On the vanity of words.
52.) On the frugality of the Ancients.
53.) On one of Caesar's sayings.
54.) On vain cunning devices.
55.) On smells.
56.) On prayer.
57.) On the length of life.

Feel free to read any translation (or indeed the original French...). The Penguin Classics edition, which I will be reading, is translated by M.A. Screech and is available for free online:

https://archive.org/details/MontaigneEssayscompleteScreech.num/mode/2up

The Kindle edition of the Screech translation is also currently available for 49p... Many other translations are available, including many that can be found for free online.