Life is So Good is the unbelievable autobiography of a man who learned to read at age 98. Surviving the hardline segregation of pre-civil rights Texas, George Dawson tells is own century spanning story of determination and love of life.
We'll be meeting to discuss this book on January 14th at the Main Library in Conference Rm 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch. We'll be cobbling together a ballot for our summer reading during this meeting, so have titles in mind you might want to read.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Some thoughts about Love in the Time of Cholera...
- For me, this book was about class as much as it was about love. What are some of the ways that class affected the characters?
- At the time of writing I have 50 pages to go so still I don’t know if Florentino and Fermina get together in the end (!) but considering their adult lives which of the characters do you think had a truer experience of love?
- Is Florentino Ariza a fool?
- How is love characterized as a disease within the book?
Here is a link to Thomas Pynchon’s original review of the book as it appeared in the New York Times:
THE HEART'S ETERNAL VOW
We'll be meeting to discuss this book on December 10th at the Main Library in Conference Rm 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.
- At the time of writing I have 50 pages to go so still I don’t know if Florentino and Fermina get together in the end (!) but considering their adult lives which of the characters do you think had a truer experience of love?
- Is Florentino Ariza a fool?
- How is love characterized as a disease within the book?
Here is a link to Thomas Pynchon’s original review of the book as it appeared in the New York Times:
THE HEART'S ETERNAL VOW
We'll be meeting to discuss this book on December 10th at the Main Library in Conference Rm 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.
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