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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...

The Odyssey

by Homer

After the fall of Troy, Greek hero Odysseus sets out for home — but it takes him ten long years to reach it, and this epic poem is the story of that journey. Romance, revenge, huge one-eyed monstrosities and the wrath of gods who use mortals for their sport: the Odyssey has it all and so much more. Read the original before the Christopher Nolan film adaptation comes out in July!