Category: Reading Group

Event information and reports on monthly reading group

  • We have now launched a poll for choosing our texts for this year’s theme of ‘Beyond Borders’. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/J6YSY5L Please fill out the survey if you think you would be interested […]

  • Bloodchild

    For our first reading group meeting of the year, we read Octavia Butler’s 1984 short story “Bloodchild”. We (the organising committee of LSFRC) chose the text firstly as there has […]

  • For our most recent reading group event, we read Walkaway (2017) by Cory Doctorow. A group of about ten met to discuss the novel in a seminar room at Birkbeck, […]

  • Monday 12th August from 7 till 8.30pm. Room 106, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In August’s session of our reading group we will be discussing Walkaway (2017) by Cory Doctorow. […]

  • On the 1st July, the LSFRC reading group convened to discuss Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short novel Herland (1915). The book follows a sociology student,  Vandyck (Van) Jennings, and his two […]

  • Monday 1st of July from 7 till 8.30pm Room 106, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In July’s session of our reading group we will be discussing Herland (1915) by […]

  • On Monday 3rd of June, the LSFRC reading group met at Birkbeck to discuss James Tiptree Jr.’s novel Brightness Falls from the Air (1985). The novel follows a large cast […]

  • Monday 3rd of June from 7:00 pm till 8:30 pm. Room 106, 43 Gordon Square, LONDON, WC1H 0PD In June’s reading group event we will be discussing James Tiptree Jr.’s […]

  • In our latest reading group meeting, held on the 29th April at Gordon Square, Birkbeck, we discussed The Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia Butler.  The novel continues the story of Lauren Oya Olamina’s struggle, […]

  • Monday 29th of April from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Room 106, 43 Gordon Square, LONDON, WC1H 0PD This month we’ll be discussing Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. This […]

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