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SUMMARY:Bookends Book Club: Tuesdays with Morrie
DESCRIPTION:Subtitled ‘An Old Man\, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson\, this 1997 memoir by the award-winning sports columnist Mitch Albom is based on a series of Tuesday visits he made to his former sociology professor\, Morrie Schwartz\, as Schwartz was dying from motor neurone disease (the book was written in part to help defray Schwartz’s mounting end-of-life medical expenses).  Each chapter covers a different topic of conversation — including death\, fear\, ageing\, greed\, marriage\, family\, forgiveness\, and the meaning of life — interspersed with Albom’s reflections on his own career-driven lifestyle and flashbacks to his college years. The results are sincere and the writing skilful; but is it inspirational? Or even sentimental? \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bookends-book-club-tuesdays-with-morrie/
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SUMMARY:Bookends Book Club: Yellowface
DESCRIPTION:RF Kuang’s 2023 satire of racial diversity\, cultural appropriation and plagiarism in the publishing industry garnered some mixed reviews; the Washington Post was particularly critical of the main character (lacked depth) and the depictions of publishing (perfunctory). Our own view was closer to The Guardian’s – “a hugely entertaining account of a brazen literary heist” – or  The Chicago Review of Books’ commendation of “Kuang’s darkly witty tone\, critiques of publishing and cultural exploitation\, and the all-consuming nature of internet personas”. Should make for some interesting conversation …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bookends-book-club-yellowface/
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SUMMARY:Bookends Book Club: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
DESCRIPTION:Existential humour and comic absurdity from the Douglas Adams classic. A fun discussion seems guaranteed …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bookends-book-club-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/
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