BOOK CLUB | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 11 AM–1 PM | FREE
Illiterati: Gen X Book Club
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Illiterati: Gen X Book Club will meet at FUSION on Sunday, February 1, from 11 AM–1 PM. The February discussion will be on All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
"Doing nothing is as good as collaborating."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. While it is another historical fiction novel about World War II, All the Light We Cannot See is a unique take on an overdone genre.
Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who lives with her father in Paris; Werner is a German orphan who lives in a coal mining town. When the Nazis occupy Paris, Marie-Laure and her father must flee to Saint-Malo to live with her great-uncle. Meanwhile, Werner is saved from working in the mines and trains to be in the German army because of his uncanny ability to build and fix radios. When Werner is tasked with hunting down the resistance with his radio skills, he will eventually make his way to Saint-Malo where his and Marie-Laure’s paths cross.
We are a media-positive book group. Audiobookers and Podcasters are welcome too. Prepare yourself for lively, non-disrespectful discussion. BYO snacks and drinks!
This book club is FREE and open to the public!
All are welcome. The club will be discussing books related to Generation X. You're welcome to BYO snacks and drinks. Later in the season Novel Point Coffee will also be open next door. Look in the photos section on Meetup.com for the current reading list. If you have reading suggestions please send them to genxbookclub@gmail.com, and keep in mind:
Authors should be born between 1960 and 1980. Outliers will want good reasons to be included. Any books over 400 pages may be discussed over multiple months.
Folks are welcome to attend even if they haven't finished the book, and audio versions are fair game.
Gen X Book Club is looking for discussion above agreement, but being mean will not be tolerated. Disagreement can be lovely as long as it remains respectful.
ABOUT ILLITERATI: GEN X BOOK CLUB
“Things are weird. The adults are all gone. We've been left to fend for ourselves by the light of an empty fridge.
Gen X was made for this. We got ourselves to the mall food court, looking for each other without appearing to care. Let's read Gen X literature. Let's discuss it as if it's real. As our ultimate rebellious act in a dying world we'll make it so.
Now that we've found a couple of interested slackers we'll crack open Eggers, Wurtzel, Safran Foer. Hewlett & Martin. If all goes well and follows in reasonable order we'll start with early Gen X authors and move to the later. Maybe rinse occasionally with something hopeish from outside the timeline, like Allie Brosh.
But when does it all go well and follow in reasonable order?”