Coming Up for Air by George Orwell

Hi everyone

Thank you to everyone who came out for the meetup yesterday on Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon at Trows. We all had a really good talk and people seemed to really enjoy the book and the chat. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts.

The next book to read is George Orwell’s 1939 comic novel Coming Up for Air about the middle-aged man George Bowling who, anticipating World War 2, becomes disillusioned and journeys to his birthplace, a village in rural England, only to find it changed as well.

The book was written in Morocco as Orwell was recuperating from tuberculosis and the Spanish Civil War in which a shot to the throat had nearly taken his life.

Read more about the book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080

Ressources
The great benefit of classic books is that most of them are in the public domain and for that reason they are readily available, for free, in all formats.

Below are some great ressources that are helpful for you before reading one of the books for our meetups:

• LibriVox: LibriVox is an open source network of volunteers who record audiobooks. You will be able to find and download most of the books we read as audio books for free on this site. I highly recommend it. The quality of the audio, however, is not as great as with professionally made audio books.
• Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is just one of many websites offering free ebooks. You will be able to find most of the books we read as ebooks on this or similar sites. To read an ebook you will need, preferably, some kind of tablet or e-reader like an Amazon Kindle or similar.
• YouTube: YouTube is also a great resource for finding and listening to audio books. Most of the books we read will also be available as audio books on YouTube.
• Local Libraries: If you are registered as a user at your local library in Denmark, you will have access to borrow ebooks and audio books for free. If you are not proficient in Danish, you can access ebooks and audio books in English by downloading the app Libby to your smart phone and tablet. By connecting the app to your local library, you will then be able to borrow e-books and audio books in English through Libby.

We meet up on Saturday November 30th at 4 pm at Trows Bar in Vesterbro.

Please, as always, be mindful and respectful of each other, so that everyone feels respected and appreciated.

Happy reading/listening/watching or however you do it.

Andreas