30th of December 2025
With a new cohort of wondrous alumni, I am assured of another devastatingly awesome book club in December. Talk is always good, the atmosphere is always lovely and the food always free. Don’t hesitate if you haven’t been before: the group changes every time and everyone is welcome.
For further questions, comments or voting for the topic of your choice (even if you’re not yet sure you can make it), contact me via the website, Signal or email.
Giving a Voice to Nature
With humanity setting itself apart from nature, it has become common practice to see nature as something to be domesticated, dominated or exploited. Still, humanity cannot escape being a part of nature, which leads to a constantly guarded and redefined distinction between humans and the rest of the world, which is silenced in human discourse. To discuss the limits and possibilities of seeing nature’s perspective, let us read attempts at giving nature a voice.
Required reading: none!
Short read: “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Longer read: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Extra Reading: Watership Down by Richard Adams, Saga of the Swamp Thing (Volume 1) by Alan Moore and varied artists, Great Apes by Will Self.
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I’d like to join the bookclub this year :)
Looking forward to it