🔼our friends' event🔼

dear friends!

we are thrilled to announce that we are back to our regular book clubs!

during our time away, we’ve accumulated a few updates!

🤩 first of all......drumroll....... we graduated!
In the meantime, we managed to finish our theses, defend them, get our diplomas, collapse from exhaustion, and rise from the ashes once more! Now this channel and the book club are run not just by students, but by certified bachelor's degree holders, linguists, and translators!

feel free to give a special shoutout to Karima and Karina for their honors diplomas!

🤩 secondly! one of us (specifically, ulyana) has made the big move from Moscow to St. Petersburg, so our book clubs will mostly be taking place online from now on!

🤩 thirdly, Engliture has launched a chat where you can join in to discuss books in English and much more!

🤩 and finally, you can look forward to several upcoming events, with announcements dropping very soon!

🌹 additionally, feel free to share in the comments or through this form (if you prefer to keep it a secret) which books you’d like to read together this autumn!

we've missed you very much and hope to see you soon at the book discussions and chat in English over a cup of tea (and not just tea)!

with love, 
the Engliture team 📚

dear book lovers, 🌟

📖 we are excited to announce our first book club of the season and a collaboration with our long-time friends at womancore!

🧸 as the weather gets colder, the leaves turn yellow, and the fog sets in, we are entering a mystical and gothic time of the year. we would like to invite you to read a piece that is just as mystical and gothic — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley!

🤩 we will discuss the great Mary Shelley, the gothic genre, psychological parallelism, the abomination of nature, ableism, lookism, how to effectively learn French in 16 hours, and uncover who the real villain is in this story!

🤩the meeting will take place on october 11th at 7:00 PM, online!

🤩to participate, please register using the link!

looking forward to seeing you soon!

#engliture_BoM
#engliture_bookclub

with love, 
the engliture team 📚

p.s. a special thanks to @natteam for the brilliant idea for this month's book!

illustration: The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake

Dear readers! 💌

🦢 we want to inform you that our friends and allies from womancore will be celebrating their birthday this saturday, october 4th! they are turning 2 years old!
uliana (the co-author of this channel) attended one of their first book clubs on Little Women when they had less than 100 subscribers. now they have grown into a huge community with a talented team, regular events, and an unmistakably unique style!

🦢 for their birthday party womancore has prepared an exciting program, which you can learn more about in their channel!

🦢 we highly recommend subscribing to them as they often host meetings ranging from support groups and workshops to movie screenings!

🦢 and by the way, they also have their own book club and english speaking club!!

🦢 it is a great honor and pleasure for us to traditionally collaborate with them for an autumn book club!

happy upcoming birthday, friends!
we wish you to continue growing, to seek (and experience) fun and enjoyment from your wonderful and very important project!

with love, 
the Engliture team 📚

Our dear brave readers🧸,
(because only the brave set off to read such a tragic spooky novel as Frankenstein)

No upcoming bookclub is really an upcoming bookclub without at least a small portion of curious facts beforehand. So this is what we are giving you today: bits and pieces of Frankenstein's fascinating story📖

🤩Mary Shelley was only 18 when she started writing the novel and 20 when it came out;

🤩The book was originally published anonymously in 1818. The version under Mary Shelley's name came out only in 1831;

🤩She created the book as a dare in a writing contest between herself, her husband Percy Shelley and her stepsister Claire Clairmiont, Lord Byron, and even Byron's physician, John Polidori;

🤩Many believed that the author of the novel was Mary's husband Percy — a prominent writer himself, yet, as thought by historians, only an editor of his wife's creation;

🤩At first the critics bashed Frankenstein, and not earlier than several years later did the work gain proper recognition;

🤩Frankenstein is widely considered to be the first science fiction novel in English.

Overall, we are truly astonished at the story behind the creation of this literary piece along with it being an exemplary artifact of women’s writing. To learn more about that we suggest reading this article as well as this one

with love,
the engliture team🤩

dear book lovers, 🌟

the book club is just around the corner, and we want to share a bit more information about Mary Shelley. her biography is so rich that we regret not doing a whole podcast as her story deserves at least an hour-long episode. we will share some brief facts with you and hope this inspires you to learn a little more about her! though we are sure it's not the last time we read Mary Shelley!

🪡Mary was born in 1797 at the end of summer, on august 30. her mother was none other than the prominent english writer Mary Wollstonecraft (we're sure we'll dedicate a month to her as well), who sadly passed away shortly after giving birth to her daughter...

🪡her father was an atheist, which was incomprehensible for 18th century!

🪡Mary was a true rebel. at sixteen, she eloped from home because she was in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was five years older than her and married! Together, they ran away to Switzerland! (ring any bells?)

🪡she wrote one of the first post-apocalyptic novels in literary history — The Last Man, published in 1826!

🪡Mary Shelley was friends with famous literary figures such as Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and John Keats. (a person is known by the company they keep!)

🪡she did not eat meat, which was quite unusual and provocative for that time!

to tell the truth, it is impossible to fit everything about Mary Shelley's life into one post, but we would like to recommend a few sources if you want to learn more about her:

🤩 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Documentary (2007)

🤩 Mary Shelley: A Biography by the National Theatre

📕 Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (a book)

with love,
the engliture team🤩

dear readers!🤩

tomorrow engliture × womancore book club will take place, and we would like to remind you that we are very much looking forward to seeing you, even if you:

🤩 read the work a long time ago

🤩 only read it in russian

🤩  haven’t finished it or read at all (believe us, you won't be alone: one of the participants who will be there tomorrow has solemnly sworn that she hasn't read and doesn't even plan to read Frankenstein)

🤩 have watched some adaptation once

🤩 didn’t know that Frankenstein is not the creature but the doctor

🤩 are hearing about this literary piece for the very first time

we will tell you everything you need to know about the book and its context as well as help translate if something is difficult to understand or say in english!

all you need is:

🌟internet access
🌟two hours of free time
🌟a desire to spend it with us

registration

we will publish the link to join here! see you tomorrow at 19:00!

with love,
the engliture team🤩

☕️ make yourselves some tea and join in 5 minutes!

dear book club participants!🫶

thank you so much for joining us last Saturday for our book club in collaboration with womancore, where we discussed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. it was very amusing and heartwarming!

for those who couldn’t make it on saturday, here’s a brief summary:

🌟we discussed gender and decolonial perspectives, condemned racism, ableism, lookism, irresponsibility in parenting... and so much more

🌟shared impressions and observations, as well as our favorite moments

🌟 concluded that the main villain of the story is society

🌟named Frankenstein's creature: Viktor Viktorovich

🌟suggested a piece of advice for Victor Frankenstein: "dude, you just need to touch some grass and chill out!"

🌟got inspiration to finish reading the book (for those of us who didn’t manage to complete it before the book club)

a big thank you to all the participants and organizers!

we look forward to seeing you at the next book club: we have another wonderful collaboration ahead! the announcement of the next book will be coming shortly!

#engliture_bookclub

with love,
the engliture team🤩

dear friends! 🌟

we’ve decided to celebrate this mysterious month with not one but two mystical books and two collaborations!

on october 30 at 19:00, online, engliture and girlhood studies are going to discuss House of Yesterday (2022) by an afghan-uzbek writer, Deeba Zargarpur!

🌟  it's a mystical young adult story about fifteen-year-old Sarah going through a tough time: her parents are divorcing, her grandmother is diagnosed with dementia, and she’s had a long fight with her childhood friend. things get even more complicated when she gets into an old house and faces the ghosts of her family’s past...

🌟you may expect an easy-to-digest language, an exciting plot, a story full of spirits and some high-quality teen drama!

🤩the book is perfect for those who are not very confident in reading English yet, but have long wanted to read something simple and amusing, or just for those who simply want to read something with autumnal vibes!

we’re really looking forward to seeing everyone and hope you will enjoy reading!

#engliture_bookclub

with love,
the engliture team🤩

dear friends! 🌟

there is just one week left until our next book club meeting, and we hope to see you there. if you have any difficulties reading in english, we encourage you to read the book in russian. it was published by Marshmallow Books and is titled «Отражение нашего дома» with a gorgeous cover

🤩we hope you'll enjoy the book and we are looking forward to seeing you!

with love,
the engliture team🤩

dear readers 🤩

tomorrow at 19:00 we will gather with you for a Halloween book club to discuss House of Yesterday (2022). in anticipation of this event, we would like to share some information about the author of the book

🌟 Deeba Zargarpur is an Afghan-Uzbek american author who developed a love for literature and storytelling from a young age, influenced by her immigrant parents and their eerie tales

🤩 she grew up in Virginia, exploring the woods and imagining magical adventures

🤩 she is also the author of another novel, Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate (2024). this novel blends magic, and adventure, inspired by the writer’s childhood fantasies

🤩 Deeba credits her storytelling skills to her family's rich linguistic and cultural background, including the music and folklore of her grandparents' Farsi language

🤩 in 2020, Deeba founded Writers of Afghan Heritage, an initiative that supports, mentors, and advocates for diverse Afghan voices in mainstream publishing

🤩 she describes herself as adventurous, especially when exploring scary areas, which is reflected in the horror elements and eerie settings present in some of her books

🤩 desides writing, she enjoys gaming and rewatching anime series like Inuyasha

🤩

join us tomorrow to celebrate Halloween and discuss the debut novel of this unique writer!

we look forward to seeing everyone, even if you haven't read the book!

with love,
the engliture team🤩

Book lovers,

Here’s the link to our meeting today. See you at 7 p.m.🌟

guys,

we didn’t even hesitate when choosing the book for our November bookclub👔

The darkest. The trickiest. The most seductive. The (most) Secret History by Donna Tartt📓

Saturday. Nov. 29th. 7:30 p.m. Link will be posted later

Sweet dreams and don’t forget to start (re-)reading this nauseatingly astonishing masterpiece asap!

With love,
your engliture team🤩

Dear readers📖,

We remind you that our The Secret History bookclub will take place this Saturday. The time has been slightly changed to 7:30 pm.

Register here!

Looking forward to seeing each of you🧸

with love,
your engliture team🎞️

Our dear mystery junkies🤩

Here’s the link to our bookclub meeting today!

See you in a bit (at 7:30 p.m.)!🤩