August Book Club discussion

Hello again Book club colleagues. 

This is your event invitation to our discussion of ‘The Island of Sea Women’ commencing at 4 p.m. next Tuesday afternoon, August 26th. Some of you may have noticed that Jeju island has been in the news recently because of a problematic behaviour by tourists - (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c939j4n2274o)

At present we have not decided on a book of the month for November. If anyone has a good recommendation that they are familiar with, and is accessible to our members, please make a nomination at our meeting next Tuesday.

I sometimes want to access a book that is not available at my library and look for it on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org . You may be interested to know that in 2020 four of the world’s largest publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley) sued the archive for lending books via 'controlled digital lending'. That lawsuit, Hachette v. Internet Archive, is currently on appeal so thousands of the texts once freely available on line are presently quarantined, pending the outcome of the appeal. Nevertheles, a lot of historical material is still available.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts about The Island of Sea Women next Tuesday.

Best,

Ross