For May’s Book Club meeting we will be discussing The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty. Zoe takes a job writing a travel book series—and then has to choose how to be paid: in regular dollars, hell notes, blood tokens, or occult favors.

“If Buffy grew up, got therapy and found a real job, it would look like this.” (Scott Sigler)

Somewhere between Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere lands The Shambling Guide to New York City.

What we discussed at the last Book Club meeting:

For April’s Book Club meeting we discussed The Magicians by Lev Grossman. While it was pitched as “Harry Potter for maladjusted adults,” it read more like “take the whiniest of Harry’s infighting with his friends, and shift that to age 17-22.”

While the setting and magic system are fascinating, the self-involvement of the main character turned many of us off from the book. Some of us were hoping for redemption, but instead came away with a theme along the lines of: “wherever you go, there you are.”

When: Monday, May 12th, 2014 — 6:30pm-7:30pm

Where: Filter Cafe 1373-75 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL

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