One book, four weeks, twelve people, and the same twelve people each week.
A circle takes a single book and gives it four Sunday evenings. We divide it into four roughly equal parts and nobody is expected to have read ahead. The rule that makes it work is that the group stays the same for all four weeks, so the conversation can remember itself.
It costs the price of the book, which you buy from us at the first meeting and take home. There is no additional fee and no membership.
Join the next circle19:30 for 20:00, finishing by 21:30. We are strict about finishing.
Small enough that everyone speaks, large enough to survive a quiet week.
A bookseller or a guest, whose job is to keep it moving, not to teach.
The point is not to reach a verdict on the book by week four. The point is that twelve people have read the same three hundred pages in the same month.Penelope Karageorgi
Next circle: Middlemarch, four Sundays from 9 November. Twelve places, several already taken.
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