Comic Book Clubs Barcelona

Club de lectura: INTERNET FOR THE PEOPLE

## Club de lectura de Permacomputing Barcelona — *Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, de Ben Tarnoff* Empezamos un nuevo club de lectura dentro de la comunidad de **Permacomputing Barcelona**. Este primer encuentro estará dedicado a *Internet for People*, un libro que propone repensar internet desde una perspectiva más humana, crítica y colectiva. Queremos que el club sea un espacio abierto para compartir ideas, preguntas y experiencias alrededor de la tecnología, sus infraestructuras y las formas en que condicionan nuestra vida cotidiana. **Leer, conversar y pensar colectivamente futuros tecnológicos distintos.** 📖 **Libro:** *Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, de Ben Tarnoff* 📅 **30 de septiembre** 🕡 **18:30 h** 📍 **AKASHA Hub Barcelona** No es necesario ser especialista en tecnología ni en permacomputing. El encuentro está abierto a cualquier persona interesada en pensar otras maneras de relacionarnos con internet y con las tecnologías que utilizamos cada día.

The Great Gatsby - A Lit Course

Held at [Backstory: The Studio](www.backstorybookshop.studio) — our bookshop's brand-new third place — this is the first of a five-part lecture series. You can find this programming — and much, much more — on our website. **To pay for the course — and see much more programming — go to the [official course page](https://www.backstorybookshop.studio/course/the-great-gatsby-7f73e3): [https://www.https://www.backstorybookshop.studio/course/the-great-gatsby-7f73e3](https://www.backstorybookshop.studio/course/barcelona-journaling-circle-memoir-558e43)** When The Great Gatsby was first published in April 1925, it was a commercial and critical failure. Fitzgerald's contemporaries — T.S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein — wrote to him in admiration, but the wider public was unmoved. The novel had sold only 25,000 copies by the time of Fitzgerald's death fifteen years later, aged 44, his heart giving out after years of heavy drinking. The novel's resurrection came from an unlikely source. During the Second World War, the Council on Books in Wartime distributed over 150,000 Armed Services Editions to soldiers — and Gatsby found its audience among American troops overseas. Then, in 1945, the critic Lionel Trilling declared Jay Gatsby a symbol of the American Dream itself, an act of critical elevation that lifted the novel into the North American literary canon, where it has remained ever since, its status as a 'classic' further cemented by adoption into high school and college curricula in the 1950s and 60s. What a difference 100 years can make. The Great Gatsby has now sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide, spawned four feature films, and — in the last two years alone — inspired two major Broadway and West End musical productions. 'The Jazz Age', a term Fitzgerald himself coined, has passed permanently into the global imagination. And yet this novel set in the aftermath of the First World War — that brief, feverish interval of new money, loose morals, and borrowed time — feels less like history and more like a mirror. Jay Gatsby is one of literature's great early architects of the curated public image: a man who reinvented himself from scratch, surrounded that invention with spectacle, and bet everything on a single, doomed idea of who he needed to be. He's an uncannily familiar figure in our current era of personal branding and influencer culture, with its promise of reinvention and wish fulfillment. **September 29, pp. 5-37:** Chapters 1 & 2 **October 6, pp. 38-74:** Chapters 3 & 4 **October 13, pp. 75-103 :** Chapters 5 & 6 **October 20, pp. 104-134:** Chapter 7 **October 27, pp. 135-166:** Chapters 8 & 9 ## About Nancy Goldstein Nancy taught literature at Harvard and MIT before leaving academia for Wall Street, then Brooklyn for Barcelona. She holds a PhD in English Literature with a focus on the Victorian era, and first caught the bug in poetry courses with Helen Vendler, the noted Harvard critic. She leads literary discussion groups in London for adult readers, guiding close, peer-level conversation rather than lecturing at them. Recent participants have called her “a superlative leader” and her teaching “not only great — it was a gift.” She's lived in L’Eixample since 2022 and sings in the 240-person Barcelona English Choir — its only woman bass.

Free by Lea Ypi

**Join us for our September book club discussion of *Free* by Lea Ypi, followed by coffee or drinks nearby.** We’re kicking off the second half of this year’s reading list with Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, a memoir by Lea Ypi about her childhood in communist Albania and her coming of age during the country’s turbulent transition to capitalism. Intelligent, captivating, and often very funny, the book moves through family secrets, childhood misunderstandings, and political upheaval while exploring our ideas about freedom. **Please note that, exceptionally, our September meeting will take place on Thursday, October 2, rather than on the last Friday of the month.** The location will be announced closer to the date, once we have a better idea of the number of attendees, so please RSVP if you’re planning to join us. As always, we’ll continue the evening with a casual get-together over coffee or drinks nearby. **New readers are always welcome!**

The Introverts' Book Club | Sabadell

Gays Can Read: Park & Read (& BYOB)

**Do you love reading? Do you like laying out in a park?** ***Let’s do both!*** Grab whatever you're reading, a picnic blanket, and a bottle of your favorite beverage! **We'll meet at 7:00PM on Tues. 29 Sept at the Gran Clariana Parque Gloriès**. We'll read for an hour or so, then discuss what we're each respectively reading (as well as any other fabulous recent reads)! What a gay way to spend a Tuesday night!

Gays Can Read in Oct: TRUST

**Book club for LGBT+ English-speaking transplants in Barcelona. In October we’re reading: TRUST, by Hernan Diaz** This technically isn't LGBT-themed, but we are more than our gayness! Also, this is the book that brought Dua Lipa and Callum Turner together. As Gays Who Can Read, let us pay tribute to the Patron Diva of Book Nerds by reading the Pulitzer Prize winning "metafiction" about capitalism that got her James Bond Jr., and got us Dua in Schiaparelli and Chanel! #gayrights **We’ll meet Sat, 10 OCT at 11:00am, at VIVARI Coffee & Bakery (Consell de Cent 280)** in L’Eixample to discuss the book, then share in our experiences as friends of Dorothy in a new land. 💅 Everyone in the rainbow alphabet is welcome! Other *Gays Can Read* Book Club events: * 31 Oct - Book Club: In Memoriam, Alice Winn * 25 Dec - No reading. Just eating for Jesus! Check out the group page for social events.

Book Club - A Room of One's Own

Register here: https://luma.com/hnwkuwpf Join us to discuss *A Room of One’s Own* by Virginia Woolf, the first book in our **DWBC Curriculum** trimester. This trimester’s theme is **Women Who Work**. **About Us** Difficult Women Book Club is a global book club reading books by women authors. Founded in Barcelona in 2023, we’ve since grown to 74 cities around the world, all reading the same book each month. We meet once a month, and everyone is welcome! Any questions? Come say hi on [Instagram](http://instagram.com/difficultwomenbookclub?utm_source=luma).

Club de Lectura - La asistenta Freida Mcffaden 📖👀

📚 Segunda sesión de nuestro Club de Lectura: La asistenta. La dinámica es leer algunos capítulos durante la sesión y comentarlos. En esta sesión continuaremos desde el Capítulo 4. Si es tu primera vez, no pasa nada, puedes leer los primeros capítulos en casa y continuar con nosotros! 📖☺️ La asistenta, de Freida Mcfadden, es una novela que se ha convertido en todo un fenómeno entre los lectores y que recientemente dio el salto a la gran pantalla con una adaptación cinematográfica estrenada en 2025. 🎬📖 No necesitas ser un gran experto en literatura: solo tener ganas de leer, compartir y conocer a otras personas amantes de los libros. 💬✨ 📍 La Xarradeta (Carrer d’Andrade 4, 08018, Barcelona) 📅 Viernes 25, septiembre 🕒 18:30 - 20:00 ¡Nos vemos en esta segunda sesión!

Micro Abierto - Por Amor al Arte

Un espacio para tejer y entretejer la cultura a través de las palabras, la música y las ideas. Emociones y experiencias que resuenan en el corazón. Poemas, canciones, monólogos, lecturas, pruebas nuevas o viejas favoritas: todo cabe mientras quieras subir al escenario a compartir y compartirte. **Cómo funciona:** * 🎟️ **Plazas limitadas** * ✍️ Para participar, debes **llegar al inicio del evento y registrarte en persona con los organizadores** * ⏱️ Cada participante dispone de **7 minutos en el escenario** * 🎭 Público bienvenido durante todo el evento * 🎟️ **Entrada gratuita** * ☕ **Consumo mínimo requerido** para apoyar al espacio y al proyecto Ven a escuchar, a participar o simplemente a disfrutar del ambiente. Un micrófono abierto, una sala atenta y ganas de compartir.

Club de lectura: Digital Vegan

## Club de lectura Permacomputing — *Digital Vegan* Continuamos con el club de lectura de **Permacomputing Barcelona**, un espacio para compartir lecturas, preguntas y conversaciones sobre nuestra relación con la tecnología. En este segundo encuentro leeremos *Digital Vegan: Healthier Technology for a Happier Planet*, de **Andy Farnell**, una propuesta para reflexionar sobre el impacto material, energético y social de las tecnologías digitales y sobre cómo podemos construir una relación más consciente y sostenible con ellas. A partir del libro conversaremos sobre consumo tecnológico, dependencia digital, sostenibilidad y sobre las alternativas que podemos imaginar desde prácticas como el permacomputing. **Leer, conversar y pensar colectivamente futuros tecnológicos distintos.** 📖 **Libro:** *Digital Vegan: Healthier Technology for a Happier Planet*, de Andy Farnell 📅 **28 de octubre** 🕡 **18:30 h** 📍 **AKASHA Hub Barcelona / Por confirmar** El encuentro está abierto a cualquier persona interesada en tecnología, sostenibilidad y cultura digital. No es necesario tener conocimientos técnicos previos.

Todo tiene su final: Duelo de amigas

Libros marginales se enorgullece de anunciar su primer club de lectura presencial en la librería La Malinche (Aragó 127). Como buenas marginales que somos abordaremos EL tema que queremos evitar porque nos da COSA, pero que inexorablemente nos alcanzará. Como diría Hector Lavoe: "Todo tiene su final...". Serán 4 sesiones: tres en septiembre y una en octubre. Inscripción e información: lamalinchelibreria@gmail.com "Esta actividad ha recibido una ayuda del Ministerio de Cultura a través de la Dirección General del Libro, del Cómic y de la Lectura"

Gays Can Read in Nov: IN MEMORIAM

**Book club for LGBT+ English-speaking transplants in Barcelona. In November we’re reading: IN MEMORIAM, by Alice Winn** Gays win wars, and the always pay for it. Just ask Alan Turing and the men in this book, who sacrifice their needs for the needs of the many. And I bet the many treated them super well! A classic gay trauma story that Joe Locke, Nerd Twink Supreme, calls his favorite book! **We’ll meet Sat, 31 OCT (yes, it’s technically not November… you’ll live) at 11:00am, at VIVARI Coffee & Bakery (Consell de Cent 280)** in L’Eixample to discuss the book, then share in our experiences as friends of Dorothy in a new land. 💅 Everyone in the rainbow alphabet is welcome!