04-06-2014, 09:46 AM
If anyone here would want to do a reading group on "the hard stuff" -- I would love that.
By that I mean the books that are daunting but rewarding, the kind where you only read a chapter at most per meeting. I belonged to a couple on the mainland; it takes a group to read a book full of allusions and make it fun.
Likewise, if anyone wanted to do "old" literature or "newer" stuff like Shakespeare. ;-)
I don't have much hope of that, but I miss it. When I moved here, I had been teaching Chaucer in Middle English, Faerie Queane, Paradise Lost. Old Irish mythology or Classics, anyone? Homer? Virgil? (not in the original language). Joyce? Virginia Woolf?
Currently getting my pseudo-medieval fix from rereading Song of Ice and Fire.
There's a great website called Tower of the Hand if anyone else is an addict.
By that I mean the books that are daunting but rewarding, the kind where you only read a chapter at most per meeting. I belonged to a couple on the mainland; it takes a group to read a book full of allusions and make it fun.
Likewise, if anyone wanted to do "old" literature or "newer" stuff like Shakespeare. ;-)
I don't have much hope of that, but I miss it. When I moved here, I had been teaching Chaucer in Middle English, Faerie Queane, Paradise Lost. Old Irish mythology or Classics, anyone? Homer? Virgil? (not in the original language). Joyce? Virginia Woolf?
Currently getting my pseudo-medieval fix from rereading Song of Ice and Fire.
There's a great website called Tower of the Hand if anyone else is an addict.