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Flip through the interactive word sets and the margin notes.
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a book club ✳︎ a literary magazine
A book club and a magazine for those who read in English.
Every month we read a new book. “Not yet translated” is our favourite genre.
We talk about books,
not “study English.”
We make materials that turn reading deeper and easier — especially if English isn't your first language.
— how we read
The book is split into parts — and then:
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Reading gets easier — the key words and realia are familiar before you meet them.
reading notes✳︎
The Lady of Shalott
An 1832/1842 ballad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a cursed woman shut in a tower, weaving what she sees in a mirror until the si…
Lancelot
The greatest knight of King Arthur's Round Table, whose love affair with Queen Guinevere helps destroy Camelot; medieval French r…
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The book is finished within a month at a comfortable pace.
Reading Pace Guideoctober
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9–14 parts2–3 days eachquiz ✳︎
— margin notes by bookflix
For every part of the book we collect the details and cultural realia that widen the reading horizon. We sketch and dig through libraries.
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Paisley
Paisley — a decorative textile pattern of curved, teardrop-shaped motifs, originally from Persia and India.
Impatiens
A popular shade-loving bedding flower, also called busy Lizzie; its name comes from Latin for 'impatient', because ripe seed pods burst open at the slightest touch.
Pilgrim outfits
Pilgrim outfits refer to the clothing associated with the English settlers who arrived on the Mayflower. Popular images show black clothing and tall hats, although real Pilgrim clothing was more varied than many modern depictions suggest.
François Rabelais
A French Renaissance monk, physician and writer whose comic epic of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel is stuffed with feasting, filth and invented words; "gargantuan" comes straight from him.
Marat/Sade
Peter Weiss's 1963 play, full title "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade"; Peter Brook's brutal 1964 staging made it a landmark of experimental theatre — and an unlikely choice for high-schoolers.
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), American folk painter of cheerful rural scenes who took up painting seriously in her late seventies and became a national celebrity in her eighties.
Westchester
An affluent suburban county just north of New York City, associated with commuter trains, leafy towns and expensive schools; it contains the estate where Franklin D. Roosevelt's family and other American dynasties kept country homes.
The Eddas
The two main sources of Norse mythology: the Prose Edda, written by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson around 1220, and the older Poetic Edda, a collection of anonymous verse; almost everything popular culture knows about Thor and Odin comes through them.
Oneiromancy
Oneiromancy is the practice of interpreting dreams to predict the future or discover hidden meanings. The word comes from the Greek words for dream and divination.
Batsto
Batsto Village, a preserved 18th-century ironworks settlement in the New Jersey Pine Barrens; its furnaces smelted bog iron and supplied the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
— the club in short
We read contemporary books in English and publish a literary magazine
1.
A new book every first of the month — join any day
2.
Margin notes, word sets, discussion questions and a quiz for every book
3.
Sunday meetings at 08:00 UTC — and a conversation that never stops
right now · book of the month
Queen Mab
Emily Mcbride
A blend of folk horror and psychological tension, Queen Mab follows a young literature scholar unraveling in the isolation of early motherhood, increasingly convinced that her insatiably crying newborn daughter has been secretly swapped for a sinister fairy changeling.
— the archive
Books here don't retire.
Reread anything from the archive in any order, call a meeting on it, make friends over it — the club reads non-linearly.
— two projects under one roof
Bookflix publishes an independent literary magazine.
Essays, symbolic analysis, unexpected reading routes, interviews, visual experiments and original fiction — all living inside one object.
Its form is unusual: two magazines are bound as one — Bookflix and Narratoscope, a second editorial voice that may not exist, yet is taken with full creative seriousness, like a literary pseudonym living by its own rules.
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Bookflix · Essay
What Are You Going to Do All Day?
Suppose the machines take the work and leave you the salary. On the permanent holiday, the question hiding inside it, and the coming fashion for philosophy
Narratoscope · Essay
Take the Suit Off
On Agamemnon, Batman, & Why the Strong Go Looking for Weakness
Bookflix · Read Between Wines
On Reading Between Wines
And they drank dark wine, and listened to the sea for a long time, until the words began to find them.
Bookflix · Editorial
Bring Your Dogs and Your Spears. Wear Something Soft. Call Your Mom.
On unicorn hunting, five hundred years of embroidery, and why we're not especially worried about the future of books.
— where the club lives
No messengers.
The whole life of the community lives on one advanced platform of our own, where the focus is only on the club's materials and events.
We write the platform ourselves, for the way the club reads. And it installs on your phone as an app: the book, the notes, the words and the discussion are always with you.
Book of the month
Queen Mab
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«The Lady of Shalott» — An 1832/1842 ballad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a cursed…
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Bookflix · Essay
What Are You Going to Do All Day?
FAQ yeah!
answers to everything
i. the club
Bookflix is a readers' club. We read books in English and discuss them together.
A new book every month. We read at a comfortable pace, share thoughts along the way, ask questions, argue.
Inside the club there is everything to make reading easier and deeper:
— margin notes to the text
— word sets and expressions
— discussion questions
— a monthly quiz
But at the centre there is always the book and the conversation around it.
We don't teach anything — yet the reading rhythm is built so that before every part your vocabulary and erudition stretch, and the text opens deeper.
ii. who it suits
Whatever your goal:
— reading in the original with an active community
— language practice
You'll fit right in.
We suit those who want to read in English — and to do it regularly. Those who care not about "studying the language" but about being in the environment: reading, discussing, listening and speaking. And those who love books and want to share that with people from different cities and countries.
iii. level of English
If you read originals or B1+/B2 adaptations, you will be comfortable.
For every book we make extra materials that help you read without stress and stay in the process.
There are no "levels" inside the club — everyone reads the same book, each at their own pace.
iv. how it works
For every book we prepare a Reading Pace Guide — a special calendar that splits the book into parts and sets the pace and the schedule.
For every stage of reading we prepare interactive word sets with the key (or simply curious) vocabulary, plus reading notes that illustrate the book. Before each part you flip through the words and read the notes — reading gets noticeably easier, the pace goes up, no dictionary needed.
For every part we also prepare classic book-club questions. The conversation runs non-stop — in text and voice, and on Sunday meetings in person.
At the end of the month — a quiz. Not an exam; a final point and a reason to look back.
v. where to get the book
You find the book yourself — paper, e-book or audio, whichever suits you.
We don't distribute books inside the club.
Can't find it? Write to us — we'll point you to the easiest way.
vi. the discussion
It's not a "lesson" and there are no obligatory calls.
It's a space where you can:
— write
— read others
— reply
— stay silent and simply watch
The conversation runs all the time. Plus every Sunday at 08:00 UTC we meet to discuss the week's reading live.
vii. how we choose books
We read a lot and choose by hand. Finding new names is more interesting to us than walking the obvious bestseller row. Very often (almost always) we read brand-new books — "not yet translated" is our favourite genre.
Genres change — contemporary prose, sci-fi, thrillers — there is no monotone routine.
viii. if you have a question
Write to us:
— by mail: hello@bookflix.media
— or in direct messages on VK
ix. joining mid-month
You can come in at any moment.
You get access to all materials and can:
— catch up with the current book
— or calmly start with the next one
Plus you can look around and see how everything works inside.
— membership
One membership — the club and the magazine together.
Membership
$15 per month
- A month in the club
- The reading guide, word sets and notes
- Sunday meetings — and meetings of your own
- The magazine: every article on the site
- Reviews, quizzes, shelves and the whole archive
One subscription — the club and the magazine together. Cancel any time.
We read all year round!
Join any time — a new book starts on the first of every month.