Kudos Reading Group

Welcome to our third season of Kudos meetings!

📖 We're happy to announce our line-up for the upcoming months, with some bestselling fiction, experimental literature, q***r narratives, and feminist essays!

📍💻 Each meeting will take place at the end of each respective month, in-person in Bucharest, with the possibility of joining us online as well.

[We provide practice certificates for all students in need of them.]

Stay tuned for more details about our November book, and join us on Bookclubs to download the book in electronic format and stay up to date with our meetings (link in bio).

✒️ Kudos is a student-led reading group organised under the auspices of the British Cultural Studies and American Studies programmes at the University of Bucharest.

📚 Mark your calendars! On April 3rd (Monday, 12-14), we are discussing our March Book of the Month, 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰

📖 As Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, the q***r memoir traces the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, and it presents a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

✒️ Carmen Maria Machado is an American short story author, essayist, and critic. Her debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the Crawford Award. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

💻 Join Kudos Reading Group via the link in our bio! (where you can also find the Zoom link, the book in electronic format, & a place to chat about all things bookish)