a book club ✳︎ a literary magazine

A book club and a magazine for those who read in English.

Every month we read a new book. “Not yet translated” is our favourite genre.

Become a member how it works ↓

Heather — book of the month join any day of the month

We talk about books,

not “study English.”

We make materials that turn reading deeper and easier — especially if English isn't your first language.

— how we read

The book is split into parts — and then:

One

Flip through the interactive word sets and the margin notes.

word set · Heather140 words

chafe Tap to flip

to make skin damaged or sore by rubbing, or to become damaged and sore like this The bracelet was so tight that it started to ________ my wrist.

buy-and-bust Tap to flip

A police operation in which an undercover officer buys drugs and then arrests the seller. The unit spent three weeks preparing a ___ on the corner dealers.

be in with someone Tap to flip

To be on friendly terms with someone influential, often in a way others resent. Everyone said she only got promoted because she's ___ the boss.

FlashcardsMultiple choice

Two

Reading gets easier — the key words and realia are familiar before you meet them.

reading notes✳︎

Pine Barrens

A vast, sparsely populated area of sandy soil, pine forest, cedar swamps and bogs covering much of southern New Jersey; despite s…

Jersey Devil

A legendary creature of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, usually described with bat wings, a goat's head, hooves and a forked tail; t…

Three

The book is finished within a month at a comfortable pace.

Reading Pace Guideseptember

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

9–14 parts2–3 days eachquiz ✳︎

— margin notes by bookflix

For every part of the book we collect the details and cultural realia that widen the reading horizon. We sketch and dig through libraries.

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Homecoming

An annual autumn celebration at American high schools and universities welcoming back former students, built around a football game, a parade, a dance and the crowning of a homecoming king and queen; the tradition dates to the early 1900s and is now one of the biggest social events of the school year.

Pipsissewa

A small evergreen woodland plant of North America whose leaves were used in traditional medicine for skin and urinary complaints. Its name comes from a Cree word meaning roughly 'it breaks into small pieces', a reference to its supposed power over kidney stones.

Stockton University

A public university in Galloway, New Jersey, set inside the Pine Barrens; its campus includes protected forest and lakes, which makes it a natural base for environmental research.

Nirvana / "You Know You're Right"

Nirvana were the Seattle grunge band led by Kurt Cobain; "You Know You're Right" was the last song they recorded, in January 1994, and was only released to the public in 2002.

Melodeon

A small reed instrument — either a button accordion or, in 19th-century America, a pump-action reed organ worked by foot pedals. New England workshops turned out these parlour organs by the thousand before pianos and radios pushed them out of fashion.

Catamount

A New England word for the mountain lion or cougar, short for "cat of the mountain"; the animal is officially extinct in Vermont, yet it survives as the University of Vermont's mascot and in dozens of local place names.

Westchester County

An affluent, leafy county just north of New York City, full of commuter towns such as Cortlandt and Peekskill; its train line into Grand Central Terminal makes it a classic setting for stories about suburban respectability.

Maquis

The dense, aromatic shrubland of the Mediterranean, full of rosemary, thyme and cistus. During the Second World War the French Resistance took its name from this scrub, where fighters could hide.

The Left Hand of Darkness

A 1969 science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set on a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed gender. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards and is credited with bringing serious feminist thought into mainstream SF.

Denzel Washington

American actor (born 1954) admired for roles in "Malcolm X," "Training Day" and "Glory"; he is also a celebrated stage Shakespearean, having played Macbeth, Brutus and Richard III.

Homecoming

An annual autumn celebration at American high schools and universities welcoming back former students, built around a football game, a parade, a dance and the crowning of a homecoming king and queen; the tradition dates to the early 1900s and is now one of the biggest social events of the school year.

Pipsissewa

A small evergreen woodland plant of North America whose leaves were used in traditional medicine for skin and urinary complaints. Its name comes from a Cree word meaning roughly 'it breaks into small pieces', a reference to its supposed power over kidney stones.

Stockton University

A public university in Galloway, New Jersey, set inside the Pine Barrens; its campus includes protected forest and lakes, which makes it a natural base for environmental research.

Nirvana / "You Know You're Right"

Nirvana were the Seattle grunge band led by Kurt Cobain; "You Know You're Right" was the last song they recorded, in January 1994, and was only released to the public in 2002.

Melodeon

A small reed instrument — either a button accordion or, in 19th-century America, a pump-action reed organ worked by foot pedals. New England workshops turned out these parlour organs by the thousand before pianos and radios pushed them out of fashion.

Catamount

A New England word for the mountain lion or cougar, short for "cat of the mountain"; the animal is officially extinct in Vermont, yet it survives as the University of Vermont's mascot and in dozens of local place names.

Westchester County

An affluent, leafy county just north of New York City, full of commuter towns such as Cortlandt and Peekskill; its train line into Grand Central Terminal makes it a classic setting for stories about suburban respectability.

Maquis

The dense, aromatic shrubland of the Mediterranean, full of rosemary, thyme and cistus. During the Second World War the French Resistance took its name from this scrub, where fighters could hide.

The Left Hand of Darkness

A 1969 science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set on a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed gender. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards and is credited with bringing serious feminist thought into mainstream SF.

Denzel Washington

American actor (born 1954) admired for roles in "Malcolm X," "Training Day" and "Glory"; he is also a celebrated stage Shakespearean, having played Macbeth, Brutus and Richard III.

— the club in short

We read contemporary books in English and publish a literary magazine

1. A new book every first of the month — join any day

2. Margin notes, word sets, discussion questions and a quiz for every book

3. Sunday meetings at 08:00 UTC — and a conversation that never stops

right now · book of the month

Heather

Caitlin Mullen

A multi-generational thriller set in the eerie New Jersey Pine Barrens, Heather follows a police chief unearthing dark family secrets while investigating the mysterious, decades-old disappearance of twin teenage sisters.

— the archive

Books here don't retire.

Reread anything from the archive in any order, call a meeting on it, make friends over it — the club reads non-linearly.

— two projects under one roof

Bookflix publishes an independent literary magazine.

Essays, symbolic analysis, unexpected reading routes, interviews, visual experiments and original fiction — all living inside one object.

Its form is unusual: two magazines are bound as one — Bookflix and Narratoscope, a second editorial voice that may not exist, yet is taken with full creative seriousness, like a literary pseudonym living by its own rules.

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Narratoscope · Essay

Take the Suit Off

On Agamemnon, Batman, & Why the Strong Go Looking for Weakness

Bookflix · Read Between Wines

On Reading Between Wines

And they drank dark wine, and listened to the sea for a long time, until the words began to find them.

Bookflix · Editorial

Bring Your Dogs and Your Spears. Wear Something Soft. Call Your Mom.

On unicorn hunting, five hundred years of embroidery, and why we're not especially worried about the future of books.

Bookflix · Observations

Homer's Wine-Dark Sea

Everyone's buying the Odyssey again, so I reread it — and found I couldn't see it the way I did at seventeen. A short voyage into why the Greeks called the sea wine-dark and never once called it blue, what that has to do with the colors I've stopped noticing, and why the same books keep finding us at different tides.

— where the club lives

No messengers.

The whole life of the community lives on one advanced platform of our own, where the focus is only on the club's materials and events.

We write the platform ourselves, for the way the club reads. And it installs on your phone as an app: the book, the notes, the words and the discussion are always with you.

our own platforman app on your phoneno social feeds

FAQ yeah!

answers to everything

i. the club

Bookflix is a readers' club. We read books in English and discuss them together.

A new book every month. We read at a comfortable pace, share thoughts along the way, ask questions, argue.

Inside the club there is everything to make reading easier and deeper:
— margin notes to the text
— word sets and expressions
— discussion questions
— a monthly quiz

But at the centre there is always the book and the conversation around it.

We don't teach anything — yet the reading rhythm is built so that before every part your vocabulary and erudition stretch, and the text opens deeper.

ii. who it suits

Whatever your goal:
— reading in the original with an active community
— language practice

You'll fit right in.

We suit those who want to read in English — and to do it regularly. Those who care not about "studying the language" but about being in the environment: reading, discussing, listening and speaking. And those who love books and want to share that with people from different cities and countries.

iii. level of English

If you read originals or B1+/B2 adaptations, you will be comfortable.

For every book we make extra materials that help you read without stress and stay in the process.

There are no "levels" inside the club — everyone reads the same book, each at their own pace.

iv. how it works

For every book we prepare a Reading Pace Guide — a special calendar that splits the book into parts and sets the pace and the schedule.

For every stage of reading we prepare interactive word sets with the key (or simply curious) vocabulary, plus reading notes that illustrate the book. Before each part you flip through the words and read the notes — reading gets noticeably easier, the pace goes up, no dictionary needed.

For every part we also prepare classic book-club questions. The conversation runs non-stop — in text and voice, and on Sunday meetings in person.

At the end of the month — a quiz. Not an exam; a final point and a reason to look back.

v. where to get the book

You find the book yourself — paper, e-book or audio, whichever suits you.

We don't distribute books inside the club.

Can't find it? Write to us — we'll point you to the easiest way.

vi. the discussion

It's not a "lesson" and there are no obligatory calls.
It's a space where you can:
— write
— read others
— reply
— stay silent and simply watch

The conversation runs all the time. Plus every Sunday at 08:00 UTC we meet to discuss the week's reading live.

vii. how we choose books

We read a lot and choose by hand. Finding new names is more interesting to us than walking the obvious bestseller row. Very often (almost always) we read brand-new books — "not yet translated" is our favourite genre.

Genres change — contemporary prose, sci-fi, thrillers — there is no monotone routine.

viii. if you have a question

Write to us:
— by mail: hello@bookflix.media
— or in direct messages on VK

ix. joining mid-month

You can come in at any moment.

You get access to all materials and can:
— catch up with the current book
— or calmly start with the next one

Plus you can look around and see how everything works inside.

— membership

One membership — the club and the magazine together.

✳︎ one plan — everything

Membership

$15 per month

A month in the club
The reading guide, word sets and notes
Sunday meetings — and meetings of your own
The magazine: every article on the site
Reviews, quizzes, shelves and the whole archive

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We read all year round!

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