Thursday, November 17, 2011
Classics I Forgot to Read
At recent meetings, I've been terribly guilty of not repping my sister (parent?) book club which also meets at Books Inc in the Marina: Classics I Forgot to Read. They'll be reading the excellent David Copperfield by Charles Dickens for January with a meeting on January 25th (they always meet the final Wednesday of each month except December). Info: http://www.booksinc.net/localinterest/278531
Sunday, November 13, 2011
etc etc
Awesome Kafka dissection tonight, I really got into the different views, thanks a bunch for participating. I also thought the short story format worked pretty nicely, so I'll shoot for more of that in the future, although I realize if everyone hasn't read more or less the same stories it could be problematic; I'll try to be ultra specific henceforth.
Also, following up on Liz's point, here's the letter Kafka wrote to his father:
http://www.kafka-franz.com/KAFKA-letter.htm
I also had a recommendation for something of Beckett's novels for January, so I'm all about that! Happy Thanksgiving, see ya December 11th at 7 PM!
Also, following up on Liz's point, here's the letter Kafka wrote to his father:
http://www.kafka-franz.com/KAFKA-letter.htm
I also had a recommendation for something of Beckett's novels for January, so I'm all about that! Happy Thanksgiving, see ya December 11th at 7 PM!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Richard Brautigan
Yep, Kafka still on for this Sunday. See ya at 7 PM sharp!
December selection: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar, two novellas and poetry available in one volume, ISBN 9780395500767. I've only read In Watermelon Sugar, which I think is an incredible piece of outsider literature with a distinctly bizarre American feel, simultaneously a product of its era and yet disembodied and idiosyncratic--"good for the soul" (sez the shelf talker). I'm looking forward to discussing everything in this volume, but if you've only got time for one thing, Trout Fishing will probably be more than enough fodder for two hours' discussion.
Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate; and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly 100 poems, first published in 1968.
--from http://www.booksinc.net/book/9780395500767
December selection: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar, two novellas and poetry available in one volume, ISBN 9780395500767. I've only read In Watermelon Sugar, which I think is an incredible piece of outsider literature with a distinctly bizarre American feel, simultaneously a product of its era and yet disembodied and idiosyncratic--"good for the soul" (sez the shelf talker). I'm looking forward to discussing everything in this volume, but if you've only got time for one thing, Trout Fishing will probably be more than enough fodder for two hours' discussion.
--from http://www.booksinc.net/book/9780395500767
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