KBK Bookclub #38 (February 8th) | Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

I am glad to announce that the book chosen for the next KBK Bookclub meeting is "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. The winning book was proposed by Hive account@psypek and supperted by Hive account@psypekand, Hive account@aaiwan and myself. Two more proposals were made: Hive account@szmulkberg proposed Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (which received two preferences from Hive account@szmulkberg and Hive account@wayward-dreams), whilst Hive account@wayward-dreams proposed Wykład profesora Mmaa by Stefan Themerson (supported by Hive account@kjensen and myself). I initially voted for Wykład profesora Mmaa, but was eventually discouraged to see very few available copies in the English language. I was unable to unvote myself, and ended up voting for Pygmalion as well, this is why there are two votes from my side. I was happy to see that both Hive account@szmulkberg and Hive account@psypek proposed books that had already been proposed in the past but didn't get selected. I encourage Hive account@szmulkberg to continue in his perseverance. We will read Hillbilly Elegy at some point, I'm sure!

The meeting shall take place at Hive account@krolestwo on February 8th 2025 at 19.00 (second Saturday of next month). The discussion will be held in either Polish or English, but you are free to read the book in whatever language suits you best.

If you are curious about how the Bookclub is run, Hive account@przeczytaj presents all the details of the project. Have a read!

Previous bookclub meetings:

Tomasi di Lampedusa's Gattopardo (11/12/2021)
Dostoevsky's Demons (12/02/2022)
McCarthy's The Road (12/03/2022)
Solovyov's Short Story of the Antichrist (09/04/2022)
Stanisław Lem's Solaris (14/05/2022)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Night Flight (11/06/2022)
Ernst Jünger's Sturm (02/07/2022)
Aristophanes' The Clouds (13/08/2022)
Paola Peretti's The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree (10/09/2022)
Italo Calvino's Cosmicomiche (08/10/2022).
Adam Mickiewicz's Księgi Pielgrzymstwa Polskiego (12/11/2022)
Winston Groom's Forrest Gump (10/12/2022)
Jane Austen's Emma (14/01/2023)
Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (11/02/2023)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (11/03/2023)
Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (01/04/2023)
Witold Pilecki's Report W (13/05/2023)
Giovannino Guareschi's The Little World of Don Camillo (10/06/2023)
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (15/07/2023)
Ivo Andrić's Signs by the roadside (12/08/2023)
Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną by Dorota Masłowska (16/09/2023)
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam (14/10/2023)
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (11/11/2023)
Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood (09/12/2023)
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (13/01/2024)
Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves (09/03/2024)
Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (13/04/2024)
Sergiusz Piasecki's Lover of the Great Bear (11/05/2024)
Roger Scruton's Modern Culture (08/06/2024)
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (13/07/2024)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (10/08/2024)
Ferenc Molnár's The Paul Street Boys (14/09/2024).
Milan Kundera's Immortality (19/10/2024)
Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (9/11/2024)
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House(14/12/2024)
Amos Oz's Where the Jackals Howl (11/01/2025)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (8/02/2025)