{"id":38212,"date":"2025-01-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cis-spain.com\/en\/?p=38212"},"modified":"2025-01-07T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:41:06","slug":"cis-book-club-exploring-the-world-through-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cis-spain.com\/en\/blog\/cis-book-club-exploring-the-world-through-words\/","title":{"rendered":"CIS Book Club: Exploring the World Through Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
By Laura Pe\u00f1aloza\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p> As an international university, <\/span>CIS University<\/b> is made up of students with a variety of life stories. Based on a shared love of reading, the <\/span>CIS University Book Club<\/b><\/a> allows these students not only to explore new poetry, short stories and novels, but to do so alongside the diverse perspectives of their peers and club coordinator, <\/span>Professor Mar G\u00e1mez Garc\u00eda<\/b>.<\/span><\/p> In the club, members engage in dynamic conversations about the readings every week. <\/span>They read from various authors, including <\/span>E. E. Cummings, <\/span>Susan Glaspell, Ernest Hemingway, <\/span>Ursula K. Le Guin, <\/span>Alice Walker, <\/span>Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, and many others.<\/span><\/p> \u201cIt is very fulfilling for me to see when students are passionate about a specific text, author, or book. My favorite part is when I let them speak and we listen to their readings and interpretations,\u201d explained Professor <\/span>G\u00e1mez, who has led the club for the last two academic years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote> Students are also invited to several club excursions throughout the semester. In the past, CIS University Book Club has visited Miguel de Cervantes\u2019 house and a medieval market in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, the historical Chocolater\u00eda San Gin\u00e9s, theater performances such as an adaptation of Lorca\u2019s famous <\/span>Yerma<\/span><\/i>, and the Retiro Park, where the weather is especially nice for reading.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>