Engliture

📖📖📖attention! spooky
📖📖📖and gloomy
📖📖📖season is coming!

take your blankets, warm drinks, friends, and prepare to discuss:

🌫️who Edgar Allan Poe was;
✨what is special about ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’;
🌫️what the features of a detective story are.

September 12th, 8pm
don’t forget to register https://forms.gle/oU1zZbTQ7WhCTBAf9

dear readers,

as autumn settles in, we're diving into its perfect literary companion, mystery, and the detective world in particular. today, we take a look at some of the most fascinating facts behind the genre's history📖

don’t forget about our meeting dedicated to The Murders in the Rue Morgue and detective genre on https://forms.gle/oU1zZbTQ7WhCTBAf9

with love,
your engliture team🤍

🤩🤩the summer chapter
🤩🤩closes, the autumn
🤩🤩chapter begins

the long, lazy days of summer are drawing to their end, and with the first cool whisper of autumn, Engliture stirs awake. the light sweaters come down from their shelves, the kettle is warm, and our circle of curious minds is ready to gather again📖

☕️ September 12th, Book Club
we begin the new season by exploring Gothic literature and tracing how the detective genre emerged. we'll also touch briefly on Edgar Allan Poe and the golden formula of the detective story, and then turn to a discussion of The Murders in the Rue Morgue, often hailed as the very first detective story ever written

🐈‍⬛September 25th, Book Club
then we continue by reviewing the characteristics of the detective genre, discussing what makes a detective story good, and analysing the story The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

📖Coming next month, a new course
next month, we invite you into a course built around Agatha Christie's chilling masterpiece, And Then There Were None. ten strangers, one island, no escape, and a new way to master the English language

all the registration links will appear a bit later, don't miss it!

see you soon, the Engliture's doors are open again🍂

with love,
your engliture team🌚

what we read in August📓

share in the comments what book you read last month☕️

Sylvia Plath once said:
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

we were lolling about on the beach, swimming in wild Russian rivers, visiting our hometowns and distant relatives. 🌸

suddenly it’s August again with its vibrant amber and sweet sticky fruit juices running down the fingers, and hands, and under the sleeve.
we pack our bags and fly, and get on the train to sit down, dust our table, open our computers and begin…

🍂our August speaking club🍂

🍂new vocabulary each meeting
⭐friendly chat
🍂4+ hours of speaking
✨perfect for B2 learners
🍂one meeting hosted by a native speaker🍂

check out the topics and register https://forms.gle/EkeVwdfFCPraCisY9. be careful, there is one link for all the meetings🕊️

what your engliture girls read in June👼

a few summer books recommendations for our dear bookworms🌼

🪷A2
Seacrow Island by Astrid Lindgren
A city family rents a cottage on a remote Swedish island for the summer and slowly learns the rhythms of island life, its fishermen, its silences, and its surprises. Told through the eyes of several children and adults at once, the novel captures both the joy and the ache of a summer that cannot last forever.

Waffle Hearts by Maria Parr
Nine-year-old Trille and his neighbour Lena share a summer full of adventures, waffle-eating, and big feelings on a small Norwegian island. A warm and funny story about growing up, loyalty, and what it means to have a true best friend.

The Moomin by Tove Jansson
The Moomin family — round, gentle creatures who live in a cosy valley — set off on curious adventures full of strange characters, wild weather, and quiet magic. Beneath the playful surface, Jansson hides surprisingly deep ideas about freedom, belonging, and the beauty of small things.

🤍B1-B2
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Esperanza, a young Latina girl, narrates her life in a Chicago neighbourhood through a series of short, poetic vignettes — about her family, neighbours, dreams, and desire to one day leave Mango Street behind. The language is simple and lyrical, each chapter no longer than a page or two, yet the cumulative effect is quietly powerful.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
After a painful divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert spends a year travelling through Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of pleasure, spiritual peace, and a new sense of self. Each country becomes a lens through which she examines identity, faith, and desire with wit, honesty, and considerable literary flair.

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
An elderly grandmother and her six-year-old granddaughter spend a summer together on a tiny island off the Finnish coast, exploring the rocks, the sea, and each other. The book has no conventional plot — it is a series of quiet episodes, each one a small meditation on life, death, nature, and the strange tenderness between old age and childhood.

👁️C1-C2
Emma by Jane Austin
Emma Woodhouse is clever, rich, and convinced she has a gift for matchmaking — a conviction that leads her to meddle cheerfully in the lives of everyone around her. The novel is Jane Austen's sharpest and most ironic comedy of manners, built around a heroine who is blind to her own feelings while seeing everyone else's with false clarity.

In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
Izzy and Nate survive a plane crash together as strangers and are pulled in and out of each other's lives over the next ten years — she into politics, he into the military. Their story reaches a breaking point when they are reunited in Afghanistan, where Nate is assigned to protect her.

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes, a poet and professor, buys a ruined villa in the Tuscan countryside and spends her summers restoring it alongside her partner, learning the rhythms of Italian life through its food, markets, and people. Written with a poet's eye for sensory detail, the memoir is less a travel book than a love letter to beauty, reinvention, and the quiet courage of starting over.

our lovely bookworms, we have an announcement!🌟
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engliture is organising

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍’n 🤩🤍🤍

🧺S u m m e r C a m p🌼
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🍋what will it look like?

we will meet 4 times for about 2 hours each in the span of one week in July — on 07.07, 09.07, 11.07 and 13.07 — to read one chapter from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (4 chapters in total), discuss it and play a multitude of joyful games!

💐what's the purpose of this camp?

it's summer so it is truly high time to rest and relax. and it may also be the time when you could destigmatise reading in a foreign language for yourself. because we'll be exploring such a summer book with such a huge accent on living in synch with nature AND we'll be doing it so leisurely, so gently and with so much enjoyment that there's a high chance reading in english will become your not-so-guilty pleasure, regardless of your current level:)

📎the format is adaptable, it will work for learners of different levels (B1-B2+ recommended)!

the price is 2700 rubles, text https://t.me/underthefern to sign up or ask 💌

with much love,
your engliture team🎀

dear book lovers,

🍂🍂a friendly reminder that 🍂🍂our https://forms.gle/k26iDUVm8Yaf8nVV9 on ‘Second Place’ is tomorrow at 4pm!

topics we’ll discuss:
• creativity and freedom;
• female gaze;
• mother & daughter relationship

do read the book for its philosophy and calm flow, and do come even if you haven’t finished the book!

please, register https://forms.gle/k26iDUVm8Yaf8nVV9!

🍂🍂Rachel Cusk
🍂🍂 is a British-Canadian writer most famous for her Outline trilogy (Outline, Transit, Kudos).
The books largely consist of an unnamed narrator chronicling the conversations she has with others. Those are described as ‘autobiographical novels’.
🍂🍂🍂
Cusk focuses on female experiences and personal relationships, as well as explores motherhood and divorce in her non-fiction books.

‘Second place’ is a brilliant novel that allows a reader to look inside the darkness of a human soul and its expressions.

https://forms.gle/RrtANJp7bpBQexj47 on the 27th of May to try your strength in translation and reading.

don’t forget to sign up for the course on ‘Second place’!

🫀twilight book vs movie, the differences you probably missed

same story, different details — let's see what changed when Edward and Bella left the page for the screen🎥

🍀🍀🍀our lovely
🍀🍀🍀engliture
🍀🌺🍀people,
next Thursday at 5 pm we will meet to speak and write about the beauty and grandeur of nature at our creative workshop

the program will feature:

🪵a bit of vocabulary and grammar time + a nature vocab list to prepare you for your artistic work;

🌸examples of exceptional nature descriptions from different books for you to learn and get inspired;

🌼a creative session where you'll be able to write nature-related poetry or prose;

🌟a reading session of your creations<3

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDOnrL_4SxKffiLzMFIzKaCOnaY5-iVeLlpaD6wQHyfppg/viewform?usp=header!

p.s. sharing a picture of me in a place that keeps me yearning for it day and night (don't mind my improvised backpack and share your(s) in the comments:)

see you soon,
Karima🌾

🍂🍂 June course is at your
🍂🍂 doorstep —
“Second place” by Rachel Cusk might be your first book read in English this year.

join for: philosophical topics + female gaze + complex grammar practice

🍂🍂🍂
a ton of speaking every lesson, advanced vocabulary and slow-reading together await you, hurry up!

text https://t.me/lslvv to sign up or ask any questions

🌝before vampires became tragic immortals and werewolves turned into cinematic monsters, they lived in ancient myths, being whispered around forests, villages, and during candlelit nights🕯

let’s step into the world of folklore and discover where the legends of vampires and werewolves truly began🌶️

🌟just a kind reminder that our collective book club is next week. we’ll present a tiny lecture and discuss the book in Russian🌟

when: March 26th, 6:30pm
where: Покровский бульвар, 11, g107
register https://forms.yandex.ru/u/69a01e4495add508a7f0fbf0

March has almost come to an end which means it’s time for our own bookclub!🍂

‘A room of one’s own’ is a fascinating essay by Virginia Woolf and one of her most prominent masterpieces, so don’t miss out;
🍂we’ll speculate on:

• women’s writing
• cultural and historical allusions in the book
• the life of women in the past
• Woolf's literary style

and, of course, share our own impressions from this month's read!

when: 28th of March, 5 pm
where: online
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2MyahdgMsZGz7MMwqZ5CJwJOcmnckKsgGoG-NLwHp3g7A/viewform?usp=publish-editor

🍂dear readers,🍂

we are beyond happy to announce Engliture's next spring-ish reading cycle: the CONTEMPORARY one📚

this time we invite you to explore novels that have left a mark on this or that modern literature and culture movements, all written by astounding authors🌸

to join the April course on Normal People (18+), text our wonderful https://t.me/lslvv

very much excited and with very much love,
your engliture team🎀

key films linked to Virginia Woolf’s works and life

👁️the hours (2002): based on Michael Cunningham novel, the film displays three women in modern world whose lives are connected to Mrs. Dalloway’s — Virginia Woolf’s character of the eponymous book.

🧇Vita and Virginia (2018): the story of a love affair between Virginia and Vita Sackville-West, a successful novelist at the time. by the way, this romance inspired Woolf’s ‘Orlando’.

🍂also, highly recommend Orlando (1992) with Tilda Swinton. though the film doesn’t exactly follow the plot of the book, be careful!

*who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): a notable film based on a 1962 play. the title is actually a word play on a song ‘who’s afraid of a big bad wolf?’ from Disney’s ‘three little pigs’. however, it’s not connected to Virginia Woolf in any other way!

with love,
your engliture team💙

💖just finished discussing one of the trickiest categories in english grammar — the perfect tenses — at our March course class. this marks the end of the grammatical section of tenses!🤩

next up, new fascinating topics that confuse the hell out of the majority of ESL students, (most probably) including you:) 🤩

btw, we are nearing the end of our Classics course and are already in full preparation for the next one!!📖

Can you guess books of which genre and/ or time period we’ll be reading during the following months?🌟

dear readers, 📖

we invite you to gather online on march 17 at 19:30 in a room of our own to become writers and try our hand at the stream of consciousness technique 📇

we will discuss how stream of consciousness differs from automatic writing and other techniques, write our own short texts, and share them with each other 🌸

the event is open
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSUSGOEvx9n4aLaXUO_wwp3x6VqdRvmpjEWTuT2VUDcFFTkQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

with love,
the engliture team💌

📃prepared a bunch of amazing events this month! take a chance to improve your English — speaking club is coming ( https://forms.gle/1xWk8btYRLrFkpRj8 to register)

N.B. all of the events will be online except for the one with https://t.me/bookclubhse!

👑8th of March is coming and so is our speaking club

we’ll meet together to discuss:
• women we love
• gender roles
• movement for women’s rights
• how to pronounce the word ‘women’

when: March 6th, 7:30pm
where: online

please register https://forms.gle/1xWk8btYRLrFkpRj8

p.s. the link will be posted here 15 minutes before the start

happy virginia woolf month 🥹