We had our first-ever bookclub hangout yesterday and it was so much fun. We try not to get too excited before events because excitement can often get in the way of focus or lead to disappointment but yesterday, post-hangout, everyone was buzzing with excitement. We discussed Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki & His Years of Pilgrimage and we found that the discussion was both meaningful and a lot of fun. We played Colorless Taboo, a card game designed by Trizha Ko (you can see some of the video footage from that on our Instagram page), and Pass the Colorless Hat wherein we tagged each other with different questions pulled out of a hat.
Lip Service, Take 1 was held at Cafe Noriter–the cafe’s name means playground in Korean–which provided just the right ambiance: a good balance between playfulness and reflection.
Twinkly lights and Colorless Taboo, a card game designed by Trizha Ko!
Among other things, we were able to talk about language, form, plot and the things which we liked and didn’t like about the book. Everyone was able to open up about which characters they gravitated toward, which parts they liked and what things about the story they felt didn’t sit quite right. Continue reading
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