What we’re about
There’s a new book club in the town and it’s lit!
You’re very familiar with the dread of impending end of the book you’re immersed in? Know the exhaustion of the day after staying up all night just to get through that next chapter? You’re unabashedly proud of your tsundoku tendencies? And above all - can’t stop thinking about what you just read and absolutely need to talk about it all with the fellow sufferers?
Then join “It’s lit!”, the newest book club in Antwerp, where we’ll choose (the hardest part!), read and discuss all from literary classics, debate stirring books and the hottest picks of the moment, hoping to avoid that horror of readgret!
We’ll try to have some structure to our discussions in order to keep everybody engaged and to make even the newest of newbies feel at ease.
All welcome, but please leave any sort of bigotry between your own four walls.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Bookwarm: let’s choose the book!Beestenbos, Antwerp
No, no, it’s not a typo, just typical of a community of the word lovers to believe they could actually play the role of the heater!
So, will you help us choose the missing piece of that cliché image - a hot cuppa, blanket, candles and:
a) “Peaces” by Helen Oyeyemi, whom Guardian describes as a bamboozler, a discombobulator, a peddler of perplexity. She crushes fables and fairytales down to a powder and then laces her fiction with it like some kind of literary hallucinogen. A novel that seems
impossible to describe and therefore impossibly curious and attractive?b) “Held” by Anne Michaels, just shortlisted for the Booker prize. Should we choose this novel written by a poet we might even forgo that candle, with the theme like how goodness and love can be held across the generations.
c)”The Book Censor’s Library” by Bothayna Al-Essa, not reviewed by the Guardian but on the list of finalists for the National Book Award. The dystopian one about the censor loosing his censorship powers to the literary magic, will that be this year’s Bookwarm?
