British, American, Canadian, Australian, … you get the idea. Please note that we are using the broad spectrum of English language and anglophone would perhaps be a better definition. I also manage a French-language Silent Book Club. This is the English-language group where we discuss in English and read books in English. I wanted to have two different groups for two different discussions. All readers are welcome including eReaders and Audible book listeners.įor more info check out the Silent Book Club web site. While some silent reading parties have a strict No Talking! rule, no one will be shushed or shamed at Silent Book Club. But I am open to all possibilities.Ĭameras and/or microphones are optional. I will currently be using Zoom for our online meetings. 20:30 - 21:00 Optional socialising and general discussion.19:00 - 19:30 Introductions and general discussion of who's reading what.They're not that difficult to find here in Paris. If everything evolves as planned, I'm sure we'll eventually find ourselves with a mixture of online club meetings and in person meetings at a café or bar. I wanted to start with the easiest and quickest way possible to see how all of this works and what the interest may be. This is the English-language group where we discuss in English while we read books in whatever language we want. If you're interested you can learn more about Silent Book Clubs All readers are welcome including eReaders and audio book listeners. There's no assigned reading or discussion guides - that's the "silent" part of our book club - but we do like to share book recommendations and meet like-minded readers. Then settle in for an hour of quiet reading with fellow book lovers. Silent Book Club is happy hour for introverts.
Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas–based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.The English language Silent Book Club in Paris, France (President Trump was obviously impressed by his son’s foray into literature, but a reviewer for Kirkus was, shall we say, a bit less so.) Perhaps the least surprising entry on the list is a book by an author very familiar to the president: Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, by Donald Trump Jr. Tom Cotton ( Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour of Arlington National Cemetery).
Rand Paul ( The Case Against Socialism), and Sen. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley ( With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace), Sen. He also gave his imprimatur to books by politicians friendly to him, including titles by former U.S. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton. He’s displayed a particular fondness for books written about him, including Victor Davis Hanson’s The Case for Trump, Dan Bongino’s Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp, and Howie Carr’s What Really Happened: How Donald J. Nearly all the books that Trump has plugged are political ones written from a conservative point of view. “As you’ll see, while Barack Obama’s list represents a broad sampling of the planet’s cultural output, Trump’s interests are narrower,” Dessem wrote. So Matthew Dessem of Slate decided to take matters into his own hands, compiling a list of every book Trump recommended on Twitter this year.
President Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, has yet to follow suit. Over the weekend, former president Barack Obama released a list of the best books he read in 2019.
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