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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, 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.
Hungary. Tibor Dery: Niki: The Story of a Dog.
Egypt. Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building.
Spain. Salvador Dali: Hidden Faces.
Finland. Arto Paasilinna: The Year of Hare.
Israel. Suzane Adam, Translator Becka Mara McKay: Laundry.
Mozambique. Mia Couto: Sleepwalking Land.
Brazil. Jorge Amado: Gabriela, Clove & Cinnamon.
Australia. Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole.
Germany. Uwe Timm: The Invention of Curried Sausage.
Iceland. Halldor Laxness: Under the Glacier.
Vietnam. Duong Thu Huong: Novel without a Name.
Iran. Farid al-Din Attar: The Conference of Birds.
Kenya. Ngugi wa' Thiong'o: Devil on the Cross.
Yugoslavia. Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina.
Peru. Mario Vargas Llosa: Death in the Andes.
Trinidad. Shiva Naipaul: The Chip-Chip Gatherers.
Ecuador. Alicia Cossio: Bruna & Her Sisters in the Sleeping City.
Greece. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek.
Japan. Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of The World.
Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus.
Mexico. David Toscana: Tula Station.
Philippines. Jose Rizal: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not).
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.
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