Books, Please! – September

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“There are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty…” Each month, The Edward Gorey House Book Club meets — at the House and in an online setting — to discuss some of Gorey’s favorite authors and his literary influences. Attendance is limited to 20 bookish sorts per group for optimal quarreling. Included with your ticket is an exclusive Books, Please! bookmark and EGH bookplate. Meetings consist of one hour of merry (and guided) discussion. All we ask is that you read enough of the book to have fun – or fake it well enough that we can’t tell the difference. The Last Wednesday of each month. Online: 4:15-5:15 • In-Person: 5:30-6:30 In-Person Tickets → Online Tickets → The Brewster Book Store is generously offering a 10% discount on each month’s book to Club members. You may take advantage of this at their lovely store in Brewster (with the presentation of your Club ticket) or online. Upcoming Recommendations de la Bibliotheque Gorey: The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon | September 30 The Pillow Book is the oldest book we will be reading this year by quite a wide margin. Written between 990 and 1002 in the Heian-era imperial palace of Kyoto, it is somewhere between a diary and a collection of musings, lists of things, and poetry. It is a beautiful and unusually intimate glimpse into the inner world of a woman who lived more than a thousand years ago. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James | October 24 I hate him more than anybody else in the world except for Picasso...I’ve read everything of Henry James, some of it twice, and every time I do I think, 'why am I doing this again? Why am I torturing myself?'” – E. Gorey For our special Halloween session of Books, Please!, we are torturing you with a small slice of James in the form of his classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw, a book about how children are terrible and sinister. We recommend reading it in a dark room while the wind howls outside and – did you hear…

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