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[close] 🌳 A Little Tree Hollow 🌳 Discover our enchanted tree realm, a cozy haven where book enthusiasts gather and magical moments await! ✨ Here you can: ☕️ Indulge in slow, cozy conversations 📚 Chat with mutual book lovers 📖 Join our BOTMs 🧩 Play bookish games 🍩 Start fun buddy reads 🥞 Join a close-knit community 🍪 Enjoy a spoiler-safe haven 🦉 Welcome to the Hollow! 🦉 The Hollow is a warm and safe place, free from the troubles of the outside world, and created as a magical escape. Most of us tend to be book lovers, but no matter what you love to do, the Hollow welcomes everybody in search of a cozy little haven. We hope you have a magical time here. ✨ It's nighttime. You're walking deep into the dark woods, following the glowing stones that gently light up the pathway. The summer breeze cools your skin, and you close your eyes to breathe in the beautiful scent of the trees. Sometimes you see a fluffy tawny owl perched high up on the branches, its beady eyes quietly looking down at you, and other times you spot a sleek red fox nearby, quickly running away before you come near it. The soft moonlight shines down upon the enchanted forest, and eventually, you reach your destination. In front of you is an old large tree, with a magical wooden door appearing from nowhere. A sign is written, saying: A Little Tree Hollow. You hear the light echoes of fairy music coming from behind it, and the delicious scent of cookies wafts out through the gaps. Like always, you knock on the door, and the secret magical treehouse opens itself for you to enter. officially started on Jan. 19th, 2022

[close] A group where you can roleplay various books, shows and games! ^^ I mostly focus on Nintendo games, but if you want to do an RP in a different subject I'd be more than happy to make it happen!

[close] For books discussed on "Open Book" , a podcast that teaches curious and intelligent non-specialists how to read texts like an English professor.

[close] The Sydney Short Bookclub (formerly the Glebe Short Bookclub), was started on Meetup.com in 2015. For years we met nearly every two weeks at pubs around Glebe and Pyrmont. With the black swan that is Covid-19 we have decided to try out some online meetups till the world is a little safer. The digital format is brand new for us and we are still finding our way with this style of bookclub. Since inception, books have been <200 pages. That includes novellas, short stories, famous letters, poems, plays, and other texts. We avoid chick lit, romance, and mainstream books. We have covered a lot of classic texts from the Russian Greats to other literary greats such as Fitzgerald, Atwood, Steinbeck, LeGuin, Camus, Salinger, Voltaire, Seneca, Kafka, Woolf and many others. In 2018 we introduced the concept of DDs (dialectic discursions). DDs are topical discussions focussed on a particular issue. DDs usually have just one or two key texts, sometimes members suggest extra links but the key texts are the main focus of the conversation. We have also run special events such as philosophy lunches focussed on texts such as Sapiens by Harari, and ideas of DeBeauvoir, Sarte, and the Stoics. We know that online will not be as fun as in person, but with Covid setting in for at least several months and many people either self-isolating or social-distancing, we thought we should try and carry on.