Book Group
Somewhere between fun and challenging.
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...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Young Robinson ignores some excellent advice, goes to sea, gets shipwrecked, and finds himself alone on an island with nothing but his wits and an alarming amount of free time. Robinson Crusoe is a story of self-reliance, survival, adventure, ingenuity, cannibals, colonialism—and one man’s heroic determination to make himself comfortable absolutely anywhere.