January's Reading: Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

     
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is about Oliver Twist, and orphan who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meetsthe leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.

December's Reading: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

The Metamorphosis ( Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is one of the main  works of short fiction of the last century. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect-like creature.

November's Reading: Dracula (Bram Stoker)

 

Dracula, written by the Irish author Bram Stoker in 1897. We have chosen this novel because one of our main purposes is reading not only the "ancient" classics, but also the most "recent" ones. The novel tells the story of the famous vampire count Dracula and his attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Van Helsing.The novel treats the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration,colonialism, and postcolonialism.

October's Reading: Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

I'd like to start my readings with one of the most famous novel in the world: Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe). It was first published in 1719.The book is an autobiography of Robinson Crusoe, who spent nearly 30 years on an  island, encountering different dangers before he was rescued.

English Reading Club

12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8760 hours...If we want to conceptualize our time, it's quite noticeable that we feel that time is under our control if we use numbers than if we just think about the time as an abstract thing. So much time wasted in sleeping, eating, going to work or uni, etc. Time passes and we don't spend it doing things that really interest us. Well, after having thought about it seriously, I've started this blog in order to create an English Reading Club, and, in my case, this will force me to keep on doing what I really want to enjoy and spend my time in: READING, and escape from that society that persuades us to see everything using numbers, instead of words...