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This is the registration link to the meeting posted earlier⬆️

Hello, my dear co-readers!

Summer is officially wrapping up, and our book club is finally back to town! We are kicking off our new reading season with a short story by Graham Greene, who is known for his cinematic storytelling exploring the grey areas of human morality, faith, and betrayal.
Let’s read and discuss how this story resonates with each of us.

Many thanks to Maria for suggesting the author and his stories!🤩

🔹️September 10, 19:00
🔹️Nekrasovka library, 5th floor
🔹️Graham Greene – A drive in the country

Registration link will be added later.

See you!
Have a great time meanwhile!

Hello!

Our next meeting focuses on Career Move by Martin Amis, a sharp satire that reverses reality by making poets wealthy celebrities and screenwriters starving artists.

Martin Amis (1949–2023) was one of the most influential voices in contemporary British fiction. Known for his razor-sharp wit, stylistic virtuosity, and bleakly comic worldview, Amis defined the literary landscape of the 1980s and 1990s.

🔹June 15, 19:00.
❗️ATTN: This would be MONDAY, not Thursday❗️
🔹Martin Amis – Career move
🔹Nekrasovka library, room 502

Please find the registration link here.
Looking forward to seeing you!

Hello!

In between the meetings, in between the stories, I read (usually) novels and post impressions at this channel

I would love to have an exchange of opinions, please feel welcome to join and comment on Pale Blue Book

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At our next meeting we are going to discuss Truman Capote’s "The Thanksgiving Visitor."
It’s often paired with his famous Christmas story that we had read some time ago, but this tale stands on its own as a reflection on childhood's sweet memories and hardships, on moral choice, kindness and betrayal.

🔹May 14, 19:00
🔹Truman Capote –The Thanksgiving visitor
🔹Nekrasovka library, room 503

The registration link is here, see you! Meanwhile have a great time and enjoy the story!

Many thanks to our participant Maria for suggesting this story! ❤️

The video about a library i promised to share

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Hello everyone!

Next meeting we will be diving into the subtle masterful writing of the Irish writer William Trevor (1928–2016).

Known as one of the greatest short story writers of our time, Trevor spent his life in Ireland and England. Celebrated for his immense empathy and precise, quiet prose he was a three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, was nominated 5 times for the Booker and mentioned in relation to the Nobel prize,
To set the mood, I want to share this reflection by contemporary author Yiyun Li:

"It is impossible for me to name a favorite William Trevor story. Can one pick up a favorite tree in a forest, when all the trees, with their secret joy and suffering, gaze at our meagre existence with sympathy? I can, however, name twenty or thirty stories I return to regularly. One of these stories is 'After Rain,' the title story of the collection After Rain. In the story a woman travels alone to recover from a love that has ended too abruptly, but the wish that solitude could exorcise loneliness is as faulty as the wish that love could exorcise disappointment of love. The story is to me like mental Visine. It doesn’t offer a resolution to life’s muddiness, but it keeps my mind clear when clarity is essential."

Join us as we discuss our impressions of this beautiful story.

🔹April 9th, 19:00
🔹William Trevor – After rain
🔹Nekrasovka library, room 503

Please register here
See you!

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