Sunday 30 May 2021 13:00
We are excited to announce yet another get-together of our Teen Reading Club in May, hosted, as usual, by the author Stella Kasdagli.
The book we’ll be reading this month is Shoes with Wings by Maria Papayanni
For this meeting, 30 members between 12 and 16 years old set a date online for Sunday, May 30, at 13:00, to discover alternative worlds waiting to be created by the readers themselves – that’s us!
Don’t worry if you don’t have time to get through the whole book, or if you didn’t make it to our previous meeting: in any case, Stella will give the signal each month, announcing the book we’ll all be reading over the next few weeks. At the end of the month, the gang that has read the book (or half of it, at least!) will get together to share thoughts, impressions, feelings and concerns inspired by what we read – whether we liked it a lot, or not so much!
A bit more on May’s book
Shoes with Wings is a book about poetry, little miracles and big centuries, and the quest for Utopia – a book, in other words, about ordinary people just like ourselves, who don’t give up on their dreams. With its lively, uplifting pace, and brimming with openness, honesty, inspiration and intelligence, it is written in such a way that, at times, it may read like a collection of poems that have somehow wormed their way into a novel. In any case, it’s a book that will captivate you from the very first page and that you’ll return to, time and time again.
Little Rosa is growing up with her father, a fisherman who writes poetry in secret. At some point, haunted by bad thoughts, she follows Gabito, the one-eyed cat, to the Underwater Kingdom, which is preparing to go to war for the craziest reason you can imagine: the languages that are being lost. Never before had Rosa thought that languages can die, or that fairy tales, songs and dreams die with them. But now she must decide whether she is brave enough to make a stand and fight her own battle in the neighborhoods of the world.
A bit more on Stella
Stella Kasdagli is an author, translator, co-founder of the non-profit organization Women On Top, and educator to teenagers and adults. She completed her degree (only God knows how) in French Philology in Athens, and went on to study Media Theory in London. She worked as an editor on Cosmopolitan magazine for a number of years, while also writing for other Greek and English-language publications and sites. She now designs and implements actions to empower women, writes on topics she’d like to see discussed more widely, translates foreign literature, and runs workshops for teenagers on body image, the internet and social change. She is also (phew!) co-founder of the Mentorkids network and the Bookworm online book club. She has written the books Koilitsa.com [Belly.com], Ithela mono na horeso [I only wanted to fit], 30 gynaikes pou allaksan ton kosmo (kai pos boreis na ton allakseis ki esi) [30 women who changed the world (and how you can change it, too)], and the Princess Athena series. She has two daughters, and they grow up together in Athens
Via Zoom
Sunday 30/05, 13.00
For boys and girls aged 12-16 years old Participation by online pre-registration
Pre-registration starts on Wednesday 05/05 at 12.00
A link to join the online meeting will be sent to the first 30 members to register.
To take part in the Reading Club, those who register must have read the book of the month (or half of it, at least).
Shoes with Wings is available by Patakis Books.
Due to public health measures, there may be changes regarding either the staging of the event, or the maximum number of participants.
