Second edition of the ‘Book Club’ at Cobra

Image: Cobra Books.

Today starting at 19.00 takes place the second edition of the Book Club at Cobra, which I attended to in its founding meeting (!) and had a more than satisfactory experience at.

Quite different from the American version of a book club (the type I was more familiar with before attending this one), this version is much more porteño in the sense that it's more like a coffee discussion among interesting people. Or so it began, who knows where it will end.

The dynamic is simple: a topic is proposed and the attendees take texts that might or might not be associated with it. Fragments are read and the conversation is built around the new concepts and meanings that are added to the subject matter.

Adventure was the theme of the first meeting, and the discussion was around absolutely everything from the differences between adventurers and explorers, if the adventurer flirts with dementia, what kind of adventures can a person living in the city and a person over age have, if Cousteau was or not an adventurer, and what a former member of the Japanese army following four deer somewhere in the United States has to do with adventure.

If you like the idea, today's topic is Abajo (Below, Down), and the meeting starts at 19.00 at Cobra (Aranguren 150, Caballito).

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