826CHI Book Club
Patrick Shaffner, Community Outreacher extraordinaire, would like to invite you to read books with him through 826CHI's new bookclub, which he has titled Globiblio. Please allow Patrick to explain:

-GLOBIBLIO-

Globiblio, simply put, is a book club celebrating planet earth, the fifth largest planet in our solar system, the third planet from the sun (which is hotter, if you can believe it, than most, if not all, of the celebrated celebrities you can think of using your brain that is encased inside your skull, which is smaller than some of our hominid ancestors but bigger than others, like Lucy, who was rather small but was still bigger than other things, like gumballs, candle sticks and boxes of cereal) and the people who have written amazing things, in the form of a novel, while living, in all that that entails, on different parts of it.

Each month we will explore a different author from a different land — traversing the globe for the greatest and/or cheapest in literature from our beloved planet. The logistics: We will meet once a month at 7:30pm at 826CHI. It will be "byob" and "byodibtcwetmiysd" (bring your own dish inspired by the country we explored that month if you so desire). Like most aeroplanes and slow boats we have limited room, so if you are interested, sign up immediately! To enroll or if you have any questions get in touch with Patrick.

The Proposed Itinerary for the Upcoming Months:

Thursday April 17, Peru. Mario Vargas Llosa: Death in the Andes.

Thursday May 15, Yugoslavia. Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina.

Thursday June 19, Kenya. Ngugi wa' Thiong'o: Devil on the Cross.

Past Lands and Works Visited:

Greece. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek.

Ecuador. Alicia Cossio: Bruna & Her Sisters in the Sleeping City.

Trinidad. Shiva Naipaul: The Chip-Chip Gatherers.

Philippines. Jose Rizal: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Mexico. David Toscana: Tula Station

Norway. Knut Hamsun: Mysteries

Italy. Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Morocco. Tahar Ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light

New Zealand. Patricia Grace: Potiki

Ireland. John Banville: The Book of Evidence

Cuba. Reinaldo Arenas: Farewell to the Sea

China. Ch'Eng-En Wu: Monkey

Turkey. Orhan Pamuk: Snow

Chile. Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits

Czechoslovakia. Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk

Canada. Michael Crummey: River Thieves

South Africa (Australia). JM Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello

Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus.

Japan. Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of The World.

Back to the home page.