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THE LITTLE BOOKSHOP
English books for all levels in Rennes
Book Clubs
Beginner (A1-A2) - we talk in French!
Next book club
Title: Clouds Over California
Author: Karyn Parsons
Level: A2+ (Penguin Readers)
Date: 6th of December from 09.00-10.30
Places available: 2 places available
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5
There will be snacks/sweets
"Clouds over California is a story about an eleven-year-old girl called Stevie, and the changes that happen in her life when her older cousin comes to stay. It is also about life in the 1970s and important events that changed things in the United States of America for women and Black people."
Intermediate (B1-B2)
Next club club
Title: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Level: B2+
Date: 8th of November from 09.00-10.30
Places available: FULL
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5
There will be snacks/sweets
"Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley’s deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance – no matter the cost."
Expert
Next themed book club
Theme: Historical fiction
Date: 29th of November from 09.00-10.30
Places available: FULL (waiting list)
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5
There will be snacks/sweets
Let's get back in time with historical novels! Do you like the Victorian Era, Antiquity, Prehistory, Middle Ages, or a tiny bit more recent?
Expert
Next book club
Title: The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Date: 15th of November from 09.00-10.30
Places available: FULL (waiting list)
Price: €3 if book bought in shop, otherwise €5
There will be snacks/sweets
Last year November we did a banned book club so this time I decided to select one of the books on the list and discuss it together!
"Toni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present."
Expert ONLINE
Title: The Familiar
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date: 27th of October from 19.30-21.00
Places available: FULL
Price: €3 if you already have the book / if you want us to send the book to you, it'll be €20 incl. delivery fee!
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.
What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king..."
If you see a book/theme you're interested in and would like to register, send us an email with subject line "Book Club" to contact@thelittlebookshop.fr.
Previous books/themes
BEGINNER in 2025
- 4 October
'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry' (B1)
- 5 July
'Me Before You' (A2+)
- 10 May
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (A2)
- 1 March
'Women Who Changed The World' (A2+)
- 11 January
'Sherlock Holmes Short Stories' (A2)
in 2024
- 2 November
'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (A1+)
- 7 September
'Treasure Island' (A1)
INTERMEDIATE in 2025
- 14 June
‘Fahrenheit 451’ (level B2) - FULL
- 5 April
Theme: Feminism
- 2 February
'Lord of the Flies' (B2+)
in 2024
- 7 December
Theme: Relationships
- 5 October
'Animal Farm' (B1-B2)
EXPERT in 2025
- 25 October
'Jackal' - interview author FULL
- 11 October
Theme: Murder Mystery - FULL
- 27 September
Theme: Dark Academia
- 13 September
'The Hive' with author
- 28 June
'The Song of Achilles'
- 21 June
Theme: Pride Month
- 31 May
Theme: Translated Work
- 17 May
‘Whale Fall’ - interview author
- 26 April
'Glorious Exploits'
- 19 April
Theme: About the World of Books
- 29 March
Theme: Feminism
- 15 March
'No Place Left to Hide' with author
- 22 February
'Open Water'
- 8 February
Theme: Book Crush
- 25 January
Theme: Classics
- 18 January
Theme: Classics
in 2024
- 30 November
'And Then She Fell'
- 16 November
Theme: Banned Books
26 October
Theme: Halloween
28 September
'I Who Have Never Known Men'
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