What's better than devouring a good book? Discussing it with other like-minded people of course!
I am interested in starting a group here in Chula Vista for all women 18 and older who love to read. We will generally be reading fiction/novels but the occasional self-help or non-fiction title is not off limits either.
We would meet, on average, about once a month. I would select the first book for discussion and thereafter we would take turns nominating selections. Everyone will have the chance to lead a discussion -- if they want to!
We will most likely meet up at a quiet cafe or restaurant in town.
If this sounds like something you are interested in, please do contact me. Thank you.
This group will meet every weeks to discuss books from the Western Canon of Literature in parallel with literary or cultural critics. For instance a reading of Jameson's "The Political Unconscious" along with 1984
Authors will include: Keats, Milton, NOT Blake, Shakespeare, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Joan Didion, Michael Herr's Dispatches (Viet Nam Literature), Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, James Baldwin, DEFINTELY Nabokov, Twain and if you want Ken Kesey. Gulag Archipelago, Conrad and Virgil. Judas by Amos Oz, Defoe, Marlowe, A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin. And Finally Raymond Carver. Almost forgot---F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mallarme, Balzac, Dreisser.
An ambitious proposal: Big Money by John Dos Passos along with "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek
Amongst the critical and philosophical readings that will be introduced: Susan Sontag, Hayden White, Giorgio Agamben, Lacan, Derrida, I'll try to secure some books by Helen Vendler at Haravrd on both The Odes by Keats and on the poetry of Wallce Stevens, THe Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois, The New Negro edited by Alain Locke, Gadamer, Lucien Goldman, Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Fussel's The Great War, Walter Benjamin, Lacan, William James, James Hillman and Bachelard to accompany Ovid if you want. Mikhail Bakhtin (Polyphonic Novel). Raymond Williams. Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry "The Body in Pain
Open to men and women, all ages. I'd like to make the group comfortable for people who don't have means enough for a University but the group will always lean in a scholarly or substantially intellectual direction.
I'm looking to start a social book club for ladies in their 20's. I will be hosting at my house every other Sunday night. My main goal is to bring together a diverse group of women to become good friends! I will pick the first book, and after that we will take turns choosing a book!
I am looking for outgoing ladies to help start the core of this club, I am super friendly and outgoing. We can come together, discuss different books, chit chat, and just hang out. Please email me today!
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Este es un grupo gratuito de aficionados a la lectura de literatura en Espanol. El objetivo es leer, discutir y aprender del libro con el objetivo de fomentar la lectura y desarrollar la criitica literaria, siempre con respeto a ideas diversas. Ademas se nutre el debate y se espera el intercambio acerca del conocimiento de tendencias artisticas o intelectuales para incrementar la cultura en general.
Cada mes, mas o menos, charlamos sobre lo que hemos leido: el estilo literario, la accion y los personajes, la vida del autor, el periodo histórico, las tendencias de su tiempo. El rol de coordinador es rotatorio, asà todxs los miembros del club ayudan a facilitar la conversacion y participacion.
Si tienes interes, envia un mensaje a fer@vegatranslingual.com
¡Feliz lectura!
This is a book and discussion group for introverts, melancholics, those experiencing depression or difficulty, and anyone tired of the âhappiness/success contest.â
We are a supportive group for learning, community, self-acceptance and embracing all emotions.
The first part of each meeting will be discussion of the book-of-the-month, and the second part will be personal sharing, which is optional, but arguably the best part!
This is an experimental group - come join the fun as we figure out how deep souls can relate and create a community that satisfies our need for authentic connection and keeping it real!
Go to https://www.meetup.com/Sad-Is-Okay for information on when and where we are meeting.
See www.sadisokay.wordpress.com for more information.