Hollow Oak Readershttps://hollowoakreaders.com/Meeting notes, reading lists and house customs from Hollow Oak Readers, a small monthly book circle meeting between Dulwich and Peckham.enWhat we do when nobody finished the bookhttps://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/when-nobody-finished-the-book/https://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/when-nobody-finished-the-book/Notes from a meeting where not one of us had reached the end, and the four things we now do to keep such an evening useful rather than awkward.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe summer walk-and-read: one hill, one chapter, one benchhttps://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/summer-walk-and-read/https://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/summer-walk-and-read/How our July meeting moves outdoors — the route up through the park, where we stop to read aloud, and what changes when the room has no walls.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMTThe winter list: six books for the dark half of the yearhttps://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/winter-reading-list/https://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/winter-reading-list/Our January reading list, assembled for short afternoons and cold back rooms, with notes on why each title suits the season.Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMTA note on reading in translation, after an evening of two versionshttps://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/reading-in-translation/https://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/reading-in-translation/Our circle read the same chapter in two translations and spent a whole meeting on it. Notes on what we heard, and how we now handle translated books.Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMTHow we choose what to read: the jar, the veto and the long listhttps://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/how-we-choose-what-to-read/https://hollowoakreaders.com/journal/how-we-choose-what-to-read/The slightly eccentric method our circle uses to pick one book a month, and why a paper jar has outlasted every spreadsheet we tried.Thu, 16 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT