Book Club (Reading Circle) English Literature

In the 2024-2025 season, we will meet six times to discuss as many novels. You are expected to have read the book in question before the meeting. The teacher may send you discussion questions in advance as a guideline for the discussion.

Can you read English literature fairly easily, and do you enjoy sharing your thoughts on what you have read with others? We have scheduled six meetings for the 2024/2025 season, where we discuss as many novels. You are supposed to have read the book before each meeting. The tutor may send you some discussion questions before the actual meeting to get our discussion started.

The books to be discussed this year are:

• Delia Owens –  Where the Crawdads Sing (2019)
• Zadie Smith – Fraud (2023)
• Claire Keegan – Small Things Like these (2021)
• Abdulrazak Gurnah – Afterlives (2020)
• Audrey Magee – The Undertaking (2014)
• Carys Davies – West  (2019)

The sessions last two hours and take place every five weeks. 

The teacher will be Dr. Eli ten Lohuis who studied English language and literature at the universities of Leiden and Durham (England). In 2003 she obtained her PhD in Leiden with a study of Jewish-American literature. Since her graduation in 1986 (with a teaching qualification) she has been teaching with great pleasure and enthusiasm to all kinds of students, at different levels. She also works as a sworn translator and text editor.