Literature

[close] This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an existentialist author or containing existentialist themes. I encourage you to read the text along with other people and engage in a discussion at the end of each month, however feel free to use the group to discover existentialist literature at your leisure. MONTHLY READS ARE AS FOLLOWS: May - The Boxer and the Goalkeeper by Andrew Martin June – The Rebel by Albert Camus July – The Awakening by Kate Chopin Aug/Sep/Oct - Being and Nothingness by JP Sartre November – The Nose by Nikolai Gogol December - Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville I am by no means an expert in existentialism and welcome contributors and suggestions for upcoming reads. This group is not just for those well-read in the area but for people like myself who are open to discovering it.

[close] Welcome to Bookworms. This is a place where all our fellow readers can come together and eat all kinds of genre; from General Fiction to Crime fiction, from Literature to Classics and simultaneously discuss them. There is only one rule and that is to respect the feelings of your fellow readers.

[close] Click HERE for the latest group announcements. "It reminded me of ____ but in space." "I read ____ in high school, and actually liked it." "It's like a cross between ____ and ____ with a little Harry Potter thrown in." "YOU'VE NEVER READ ____?!?" You know the drill. Your friends reference it, your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend/"sort of thing?" raves about it, even your favorite movies quote it, or it IS your favorite movie but you've never read the book. This group is for those of us for whom one of the following may apply... - we have finally developed a taste for reading and are severely behind on classics; - we kindaaa, sortaaa, but actually slept through English class in high school and used Sparknotes/Hollywood remakes to write our book reports; - we buy a book that everyone is talking about and it sits on our shelf, and sits there... and sits there; - we've heard the hype and are finally getting around to reading the actual book; - we want to expand our horizons beyond the single genre we usually read and want to do so with some time-tested material; - we just plain old want to get everyone off our backs for not having read _____. Every month we'll choose three books to read: 1) a classic (that everyone has probably read but us), 2) a "modern" classic or popular book that everyone is talking about, and 3) a bookshelf catch-up in which we choose a book the group has already read to catch-up with other members.

[close] Discover and share your discovery of the most recently published literary fiction. If you love reading novels before anyone else decides they are good or bad; if you love ARCs; if you love hearing about the latest-published novels by authors you know, and by authors you never heard of, then you'll probably like it here. Our definition of "literary fiction" is broad.