Book Around the Corner

• The Lonely Witness by William Boyle

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Upcoming billets:

• Perdre est une question de méthode by Santiago Gamboa
• Dark Island by Susanna Crossman
• Monsieur Proust’s Library by Anka Muhlstein
• Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane

1  – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

2 – Vintage by Grégoire Hervier

3 – L’Arche de Noé by Khaled Al Khamissi

4 – Losing Is a Question of Method by Santiago Gamboa

5 – Down by the River Side by Richard Wright

6 – A Most Peculiar Act by Marie Munkara

7 – Dark Island by Susanna Crossman

8 – Monsieur Proust’s Library by Anka Muhlstein

• July: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Matthis

Join us if you want to.

Other readalongs:

• July: The Lonely Witness by William Boyle
• August: Money Shot by Christa Wolf

The 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac

1) The right to not read,

2) The right to skip pages

3) The right to not finish a book,

4) The right to reread,

5) The right to read anything,

6) The right to “Bovary-ism,” a textually-transmitted disease

7) The right to read anywhere,

8) The right to sample and steal,

9) The right to read out-loud,

10) The right to be silent.

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