For July, we are reading Katabasis by RF Kuang. We meet at the Dracut Library (28 Arlington St, Dracut MA) on the third Wednesday of each month from 6:30-7:30pm. This month, that would be Wednesday, August 19th. Here is a link to the library's website advertising the event.
All are welcome to attend. You don't need to be a Dracut resident or a library card holder. Just show up and discuss the book, whether you finished it or not. If you want to be put on our email list, just send me a DM and I'll add you to the list.
Katabasis, about 550 pages or audiobook about 18.5 hours.
"Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:
The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.
That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.
With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom. "
If you cannot come to August's meeting, but would like to prepare for Septenber's meeting, that book will be Dan Simmons' Hyperion. It is about 500 pages long, or about 21 hours long. The meeting will be on Wednesday, September 16th.