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Barely a Book Club #13: Full Tilt
June 24, 2024
Roxane Hudon introduces Dervla Murphy's Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle.
Barely a Book Club #12: One for the Lord, One for the Serf
April 28, 2024
Last call at the Red Ox Inn.
Barely a Book Club #11: All Was Frozen
March 17, 2024
A guilt-free winterlude.
Barely a Book Club #10: A Time of Gifts
December 20, 2023
The holidays are upon us and the year is nearly over, but I did not want to see 2023 out without a last dispatch to kick off our fourth selection: Patrick...
Barely a Book Club #9: Dreaming of Kalpa Imperial
November 27, 2023
This is the third, and final, installment of our book club’s series on Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. You can...
Barely a Book Club #8: Kalpa Imperial
October 3, 2023
Welcome back to Barely a Book Club, an offshoot of the Something Good newsletter. This instalment is the official kick-off for our third selection, Angélica...
Barely a Book Club #7: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
September 9, 2023
Angélica Gorodischer. I’ve described the general topic of this season of Barely a Book Club as “travel writing, about places real and imaginary.” Our next...
Barely a Book Club #6: Goodbye Patagonia
August 8, 2023
This is the third, and final, installment of our book club’s series on Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia. You can read the first post here. In 2019, Rough Guide...
Barely a Book Club #5: Suggested Listening
July 17, 2023
Happy July. I was wondering how everyone was getting on reading Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, our current Barely a Book Club selection. Myself, I am about...
Barely a Book Club #4: Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
June 12, 2023
Please contact me if you can provide a photo of what lies beneath this (admittedly beautiful) dust jacket. There’s a startling moment very early in Werner...
Barely a Book Club #3: Lost in the Maze of Hav
May 15, 2023
Dirleddy, We find ourselves now at the conclusion of our first Barely a Book Club selection: Jan Morris’s Hav. (Newcomers can read the introductory post...
Barely a Book Club #2: An Extension
May 1, 2023
I am learning so much running this book club. Here is the first, and most important thing: four weeks was not enough time for most of you to source a copy of...
Barely a Book Club #1: Hav, by Jan Morris
March 31, 2023
When I chose the topic of this club’s first season, travel writing about places real and imaginary, there was only one book I could I imagine as its first...
Something Good: Barely a Book Club
March 22, 2023
This season’s theme: travel writing. The first selection: Hav, by Jan Morris. Go get it, and expect more info soon!