Hello friends. First of all, thank you to everyone who has participated in book club, whether it’s just reading along or reading along and commenting, or voting in the polls hoping your book would win. I appreciate all of you. There are some changes coming to book club in the future, but I hope you’ll stick with us. There’s no poll for September because we aren’t quite sure what book club is going to look like past August, so watch this tag for updates.
And now, for the book announcement:
The Magicians (2009)
Written by: Lev Grossman
Discussion date: 8/30/19
Premise:
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . .
The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician’s Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.
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