What we’re about
Welcome to the San Antonio Book Lovers Club
This is a space that you can bring your book/reading suggestions that you would like to share and participate in lively discussions with a group of fellow book lovers.
Our discussions are fairly free form, I will provide some discussion points about the reading and let the conversation flow. This is NOT a traditional structured type book club.
We will cover many topics from short stories, poetry, historical fiction, non-fiction, biographies, etc. The intent is for this group to be fueled by your input!
Happy Reading!
Andrea
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Book Club Discussion: The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories - Leo TolstoyBlack Potion San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, TX
We will meet at Black Potion
Random.org - selected #240 (of 362)
The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories - Leo Tolstoy / suggested by Genesis"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied."
As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and The Forged Coupon, a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In Master and Workman Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer.
In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater.
Please post your suggestions for future discussions. You can also private message me.
Selections will be from books published July 2023 or earlier.
This month's choice may not be of interest to you but get a book you'd like to read and discuss on the list!
Check out our list here:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/1183399-san-antonio-book-lovers-club - Book Club Discussion: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. KluneBlack Potion San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, TX
We will meet at Black Potion
Random.org - selected #285 (of 368)
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune - suggested by Carrie H.Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fantasy (2021)
Welcome to Charon's Crossing.The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.
But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
376 pages, Hardcover
First published September 21, 2021Please post your suggestions for future discussions. You can also private message me.
Selections will be from books published August 2023 or earlier.
This month's choice may not be of interest to you but get a book you'd like to read and discuss on the list!
Check out our list here:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/1183399-san-antonio-book-lovers-club
