E. M. Forster book club starts March 24

We're reading "A Room with a View" on Monday nights

E. M. Forster splendidly illustrated by Kathryn Rathke

Have you ever been to Florence? That will be one of the discussion questions for the first night of the E. M. Forster Book Club, because Florence is where the start of the novel is set.

I was just in Florence six months ago, and I have many, many photos of its marvels, including this place:

This photo — which doesn’t even look real — has not been manipulated in any way.

FrizzLit book clubs are Zoom classes, and I do tons of research about the author, and the historical context, and share paintings and music and anecdotes about the author’s life, as we read the book together over several weeks, and talk about it as we go.

For A Room with a View — which is funny, short, and romantic — we’ll read about 75 pages per week.

And yes, at our last session, we’ll compare it to the movie starring Helena Bonham Carter and Daniel Day Lewis.

To join the club, you need:

• a ticket

• a copy of the book

Get either of these editions.

This edition has footnotes, but a smaller typeface, and more words crammed onto each page. Order it here. Photo of the first page below.

Plentiful footnotes but smaller typeface.

This edition has a larger typeface and fewer words per page — which I prefer, because it’s easier to read — but it doesn’t have footnotes. Order it here. Photo of the first page below.

Larger type, fewer words per page.

Past book clubs

If you’re unfamiliar with these clubs, here are some recordings of past clubs:

• Flannery O’Connor Book Club

• Middlemarch Book Club

• To the Lighthouse Book Club

These recordings are only available to paid subscribers of this substack, whose subscription fees help cover the costs of storing these recordings.