[4] A book group co-sponsored by The Kansas City Public Library and the Kansas City Star [5] brought eleven readers to the Central Library on Sunday, February 8 to discuss Mark Twain’s classic travelogue, Life on the Mississippi, and their comments and perceptions were as varied as their reading experiences.
This year marks a very important date in literary history. It’s the anniversary of one of the oldest works in literature, The Tale of Genji [8].
Discussing plays in reading groups is both rewarding and frustrating. It’s rewarding since readers can go back to the stage directions and descriptions and speeches and reread them slowly or with more focus. It’s frustrating because sometimes no matter how often a passage is reread, the only way to understand it is to see it performed.
We’ve all used this phrase, but do you know why it’s significant?
The Spanish Ministry of Culture is making certain readers the world over don’t ever forget. The most recent Cervantes prize was awarded to Spanish novelist Juan Marse for his body of work.
Marse has focused many of his books on the rifts in Spanish society under the rule of Franco.
It wasn’t an easy task, but the dedicated and determined readers taking part in the Waldo Library [15]’s Jewish American Literature [16] book group, Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of Jewish Imagination took on the award winning novel, The Puttermesser Papers by respected essayist and literary critic, Cynthia Ozick.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/off-the-page
[2] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Off%20the%20Page/feed
[3] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/river-stories
[5] http://www.kansascity.com
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/4119#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/many-candles-would-burn-book-down
[8] http://www.taleofgenji.org/
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/4064#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/page-or-stage
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/3663#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/tilting-windmills-and-winning
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/3399#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/book-questions-and-few-answers
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/waldo
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/event/let-s-talk-about-it-jewish-literature-angels-america
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/3359#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681?page=2
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681?page=3
