At our January meeting, we will be discussing “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel. The book is available from Northamptonshire libraries both in physical format and as an audiobook on the Borrowbox app, as well as in various formats from popular booksellers.
After January we’re going to be choosing our monthly reads a bit differently. We have decided to keep a list of books nominated by QWord members and to make a random choice from this list each month. Your nominations can be books you’ve read and enjoyed or books you’d like to read, as long as they have some LGBTQIA connection and are relatively easy to get hold of. If you are interested in nominating books for the list (up to 5 per person), send Liz or Kit a message!
About this month's book:
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again.
Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.
If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?
About QWord:
QWord is a book group for local LGBTQIA people, run by QStory Northampton. We read and discuss literature with queer themes and/or written by LGBTQIA authors. The group was originally founded in 2011 and came under the QStory umbrella in 2021. We meet monthly and read a wide range of books, including novels, short stories, graphic novels and poetry, chosen by our members. New members are always welcome and you don’t need to be an experienced literary critic to come along!
You can sign up to get email reminders about QWord meetings as well as other QStory groups at the following link. Choose which emails you want to received and unsubscribe at any time: https://wordpress.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d354a1ff1dac1cc953f8e8354&id=3770c4a5a8&fbclid=IwAR1ISC6NokzmujFkrQpJgFRwGGV-po8-6lL4a3uigoPn9aiSEl3-6g0L6ek
