Ali’s Book Club: July 2020



Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz

It’s available as an eBook for now. It comes out as a paper book in August.

According to Twitter, Saleema Nawaz is a Napper. Tapper. Singer. Pickle enthusiast.

In this book, Saleema Nawz writes about a Corona Virus and its impacts on many individuals. Did you like the way she used different stories and different perspectives? Which was your favourite?

Were you surprised by how much Saleema Nawz seemed to know about Corona Virus, considering she wrote the novel between 2013-2019?

Was the real experience of living through a pandemic reflected in your reading experience? Did you enjoy reading about this alternate but close history?

How does hope play into this book? How did you find Saleema Nawaz used music to express this?

Local Book

Corvus by Harold Johnson

Corvus welcomes readers to a dystopian future not unlike our own where the illusions of an ideal society have been destroyed and rebuilt using technology and class warfare. By joining classical elements of speculative fiction including surveillance, forbidden relationships, and political dissent, to the traditions of aboriginal storytelling and the legends of the Trickster, Harold Johnson invites readers to consider the consequences of our current way of life.