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.

Become a member how it works ↓

Country People — book of the month join any day of the month

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:

One

Flip through the interactive word sets and the margin notes.

word set · Country People121 words

torpor Tap to flip

laziness; inactivity; dullness She looks attractive enough to shake you out of your ______________.

cadaveric Tap to flip

Resembling or belonging to a corpse; deathly. The old dog greeted him with a wagging tail and a wave of ___ breath.

cabal Tap to flip

A small secretive group that plots or acts together for its own advantage. He was convinced the school was run by a ___ of three parents on the committee.

FlashcardsMultiple choice

Two

Reading gets easier — the key words and realia are familiar before you meet them.

reading notes✳︎

Lagotto Romagnolo

An ancient Italian breed of curly-coated water dog, now the only dog in the world officially recognised as a specialist truffle h…

Truffle

A pungent fungus that grows underground near tree roots and sells for astonishing prices; pigs were the traditional finders, but…

Three

The book is finished within a month at a comfortable pace.

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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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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss's 1957 children's book in which a mischievous cat wrecks a house and tidies it up before the mother returns. It was written to a strict list of a few hundred simple words, as a deliberately entertaining alternative to dull school readers.

Woolly adelgid

A tiny sap-sucking insect, accidentally introduced from Asia, whose white fluffy egg masses coat hemlock branches; it has killed vast numbers of eastern hemlocks in North America.

Frango com quiabo

Chicken with okra, a signature dish of Minas Gerais, usually served with cornmeal polenta. Okra reached Brazil from Africa and became a staple of Mineiro home cooking.

Raison d'être

Raison d'être is a French expression meaning "reason for being" or "purpose." It refers to the main reason something or someone exists.

Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), author of 'The Canterbury Tales' and a central figure in English literature. He wrote in Middle English at a time when courtly writing in England still often used French or Latin.

Plumeria

A tropical flowering tree (also called frangipani) with fragrant, waxy, five-petalled flowers in white, yellow, or pink. Strongly associated with Hawaii, where the blossoms are strung into lei garlands.

Circe

The enchantress of Homer's "Odyssey" who turns Odysseus's crew into pigs with a potion; her island, Aeaea, and her herbal magic made her an ancestor of the literary witch, and she has enjoyed a modern revival in feminist retellings.

Rootstock and grafting

In fruit growing, the root system onto which a chosen variety is joined, controlling the tree's size and hardiness; nearly every apple you eat comes from a grafted tree, since apple seeds don't reproduce the parent variety.

Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), the Flemish painter of crowded peasant scenes; his 'Hunters in the Snow' and 'Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap' are the classic images of little dark figures playing on white fields.

Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedy, ending with a mother unknowingly eating a pie made from her sons; wildly popular in its own day, it was long dismissed as unstageable until twentieth-century directors embraced its horror.

The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss's 1957 children's book in which a mischievous cat wrecks a house and tidies it up before the mother returns. It was written to a strict list of a few hundred simple words, as a deliberately entertaining alternative to dull school readers.

Woolly adelgid

A tiny sap-sucking insect, accidentally introduced from Asia, whose white fluffy egg masses coat hemlock branches; it has killed vast numbers of eastern hemlocks in North America.

Frango com quiabo

Chicken with okra, a signature dish of Minas Gerais, usually served with cornmeal polenta. Okra reached Brazil from Africa and became a staple of Mineiro home cooking.

Raison d'être

Raison d'être is a French expression meaning "reason for being" or "purpose." It refers to the main reason something or someone exists.

Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), author of 'The Canterbury Tales' and a central figure in English literature. He wrote in Middle English at a time when courtly writing in England still often used French or Latin.

Plumeria

A tropical flowering tree (also called frangipani) with fragrant, waxy, five-petalled flowers in white, yellow, or pink. Strongly associated with Hawaii, where the blossoms are strung into lei garlands.

Circe

The enchantress of Homer's "Odyssey" who turns Odysseus's crew into pigs with a potion; her island, Aeaea, and her herbal magic made her an ancestor of the literary witch, and she has enjoyed a modern revival in feminist retellings.

Rootstock and grafting

In fruit growing, the root system onto which a chosen variety is joined, controlling the tree's size and hardiness; nearly every apple you eat comes from a grafted tree, since apple seeds don't reproduce the parent variety.

Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), the Flemish painter of crowded peasant scenes; his 'Hunters in the Snow' and 'Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap' are the classic images of little dark figures playing on white fields.

Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedy, ending with a mother unknowingly eating a pie made from her sons; wildly popular in its own day, it was long dismissed as unstageable until twentieth-century directors embraced its horror.

— 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

Country People

Daniel Mason

A gripping, witty tale of a city family untangling bizarre local secrets in the deep Vermont woods.

— 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 · 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.

Bookflix · Observations

Homer's Wine-Dark Sea

Everyone's buying the Odyssey again, so I reread it — and found I couldn't see it the way I did at seventeen. A short voyage into why the Greeks called the sea wine-dark and never once called it blue, what that has to do with the colors I've stopped noticing, and why the same books keep finding us at different tides.

Bookflix · Essay

This Is a Day I Imagined

Fragments of a reading of Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear. Loose pieces, just to have the flavour. The whole thing runs in the fall issue, September.

Narratoscope · Fiction

The Editors — Prologue

A possibly true story about three young people and a magic machine that rewrites the world with books. This is where it starts — or where I started letting you see it.

— 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.

our own platforman app on your phoneno social feeds

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.

✳︎ one plan — everything

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

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We read all year round!

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