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As ever, the book club is open to anyone who has read the book and would like to come.

If you'd like to know what we are reading next, click here.

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As always, the book club is open to anyone who has read the book and wants to come. 

Here's the club reading list through the end of the year:

June 10: George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
July 8: Barbara Comyns: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
August 12: Virginia Woolf: The Years
September 9: Laura Riding: Progress of Stories
October 14: Edward de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes
November 11: Isak Dinesen: Seven Gothic Tales
December 9: James Joyce: Dubliners

I also post related materials about each book over here.

Feel free to shoot me an email at evencleveland (at) gmail dot com if you have any questions.

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A short but absolutely remarkable book. In a weird stroke of unlucky timing, Susan Howe happens to be giving a reading Monday night. Makes me wish I could be in two places at once.

2013 e*c book club reading list

January 14: Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
February 11: Susan Howe: My Emily Dickinson
March 11: Francis Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess
April 8: Henry James: What Maisie Knew 
May 13: Jean Strouse: Alice James
June 10: George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
July 8: Barbara Comyns: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
August 12: Virginia Woolf: The Years
September 9: Laura Riding: Progress of Stories
October 14: Edward de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes
November 11: Isak Dinesen: Seven Gothic Tales
December 9: James Joyce: Dubliners

Year one of the book club was more fun than I expected, and I can't wait to see what this year brings.

If you'd like to come, please do. We are a pretty friendly, eclectic bunch, and each meeting is open to anyone who has read the book. There's no expectation that you'll stick around from month to month (although you are welcome to). We meet at Community Bookstore in Park Slope at 7:00 p.m. on the second Monday of the month.

I do a fair amount of research for each book before our meetings, which you can follow here: http://evencleveland.tumblr.com/

this weekend

Rereading, because the next book club meeting is a week from Monday (there will be glittery gingerbread and other treats). Also:

• pop up flea + other holiday sales
• the artists of Gugging
• volcanoes
• dancers
• finding a Christmas tree

Happy weekend.

Image: Egon Schiele: Reclining Boy Leaning on His Elbow, 1917. 

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As ever, open to anyone who has read the book and would like to come.

Miss Lucy Snowe is an amazing creation and uncomfortable company. The story is her creature — she controls what she tells, much the way M. Paul, her perplexing colleague, cuts objectionable pages out of the novels he lends her. She shares a smothering, strange tale of hard practicalities, dualities, repression and passions refracted through a fierce and thwarted intelligence. It's perfect reading for gloomy fall nights.

On deck for December 10: Mrs. Havisham, Estella and Pip.

Image: Gwen John: Self portrait, 1902.

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Under discussion: unreliable narrators. And there will be PIZZA.

Upcoming: Villette (Nov. 12) and Great Expectations (Dec. 10).

As ever, the book club is open to anyone who would like to come. It's always nice to see new faces. 

For related materials and ephemera, check the book club tumblr.

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I'm always excited about the books we're reading, but I'm extra excited about the next three: The Moon and Sixpence (Sep. 10); The Good Soldier (Oct. 8); and Villette (Nov. 12). December's book is Great Expectations.

As ever, the book club is open to anyone who would like to come. It's always nice to see new faces. 

For related materials and ephemera, check the book club tumblr.

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As ever, open to anyone who has read the book and would like to come. I'll be posting links + excerpts of related materials over here.

Upcoming books and meeting dates are listed here.

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Image: Henri Rousseau: Le Chat Tigre.

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As always, open to all (and there will be snacks).

August's book is The Master and Margarita.

Photograph of a man on a bicycle sculpture found in the NYPL Digital Archive.

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As ever, open to all, so come on by. We'll have snacks.

More here. The next meeting will be on Monday, July 9th, to talk about Flann O’Brien's The Third Policeman.

Painting: Henri Rousseau: Exotic Landscape, 1908.

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Now with accurate dates!

For information on what we'll be reading next, click here.

I'll be sharing some of the research for each meeting here.

As always, the book club is open to all comers.

H. Beckwith: The Fox's Head. Late 18th - early 19th century.

book club snafu

A quick note: my book club flier for The Bloody Chamber had the wrong date — the meeting was tonight, not the 12th (it's always the 2nd Monday of the month). Sorry for the mix-up — my in-house editor is pants.

If you were planning on Thursday, email me [evencleveland (at) gmail dot com] and I will apologize personally + profusely.

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As always, open to all comers.

On May 14th, we'll meet to discuss Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox. 

Coming up:
June: A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh.
July: The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brian.
August: The Master and the Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Image: Film still from Dreyer's 'Vampyr'.

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April's book will be Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. That meeting will be on April 9th at 7.

Photo of an 'oddly perfect celestial spiral' found here.

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Open to all comers. March's book will be Cosmicomics. Meetings are always on the second Monday of the month at 7:00.

White rabbit found here.

imaginary outfit: book club

Tiny pearls, red shoes + striped cardigans are nice, but talking over a good book is even better.

Book club tonight - see you there.

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The very first meeting, open to any and all. Topics of discussion will include Transcendentalism, Pilgrim's Progress, potboilers, moral pap, burned breadths, pickled limes, and the difficulties of balancing necessary work with personal ambition. Stop by and have a cookie - I'm baking them myself.

(If you like to plan ahead, January's book is The Light Princess.)