English Book Club!

Mykolaiv Window on America Center had the English Book Club with a Peace Corps volunteer Melanie Graham on the 17th of September.

Our participants discussed a book "The Magic Shop" by H.G. Wells. This short story about out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two went in — and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father were at first amused, but when things become stranger and sinister father was no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins. Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, made this a perfect book read aloud together again and again. 

7 participants took part in this English Book Club.