Austin Classics Book Club

The SAFE Alliance of Austin provides shelter and more for adults and kids experiencing domestic abuse. Let’s give the kids living in SAFE Alliance shelters kids’ books this holiday season. Please bring books for the kids living in SAFE Alliance shelters to the meeting. We’ll share a meal and I will take all the books to the SAFE Alliance for them to distribute to the kids in their care.

Here is a link to the SAFE Alliance’s website if you would like to learn more about them or donate on their website:
https://www.safeaustin.org

Let's read "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.

"Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, James Joyce, and Dostoevsky."

Are you ready for a horror story?
Here goes.
It has come to my attention that 3 of our members (3!) have not read "The Picture of Dorian Gray"! Will I name names? Not on your life! But we must rectify this immediately!
Do they dare walk the haunted halls of this Victorian nightmare? We'll have to see if they are brave enough.
For those who have never read this masterpiece or who have read it 9 times, please join us.

How our group works:

• Read the book on your own. No worries If you don’t finish it
• Come to the meeting
• We’ll do intros and then get into the discussion. Did you love it, hate it or are you somewhere in between? Great! We want to hear your thoughts.

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Let’s discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 semi-autobiographical anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five.