Venue: Lower Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane, Shaw, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ.
Time: 7.30pm
Cost: £2 per session
September 2014 to December 2014
SWINDON
ARTSWORDS READING GROUP
Dear Reader
August 2014
The 138th monthly meeting of
the Swindon Artswords Reading Group took place on the evening of 15th July. -
We talked about May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes. Things like this were said. ‘Good cinematic style of writing.’ – ‘Great
dialogue.’- ‘Was both repelled and fascinated by the story.’ – ‘Graceless; negative;
unimaginative; and highly improbable.’ – We then made time to consider
titles for the second half of 2014.
Here, determined by suggestion, suitability, and availability in
paperback, are the four final choices for the rest of the year.
7.30pm Tuesday 16th
September – Breath by
Tim Winton. Why is there a human need for excitement and a wish to
push to limits? What is the attraction of the sea; did you surf this summer;
and why does everyone live with an element of tragedy?
7.30pm Tuesday 14th October – The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald. A passionate, idealistic, and brilliant young man, who was to become the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, astounds and disturbs family and friends by his wished-for betrothal. What can he be thinking?
7.30pm Tuesday 4th November
–
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Clarissa
prepares for a party at which she is to be hostess. As the story travels
forwards and back in time and in and out of characters' minds, an image is
constructed of Clarissa's life and of inter-war social structure.
7.30pm
Tuesday 9th December – No
One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
Cock-fighting, corruption, poverty,
and insignificance, in Colombia, with a little censorship and government
control thrown in. Life in provincial Latin America?
All
meetings are held at Lower Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane, Shaw, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ. Start
time is 7.30pm. - The cost is £2 per
session. Note. Swindon’s brilliant independent bookshop, Pen & Paper
in Old Town, tel. 01793 421641, can readily supply all these titles. For most
of them, advance notice is required. Of course, other sources, bookshops, and
book suppliers are available.
If there is anything else you
need to know, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Enjoy the rest of summer and
happy reading!
Matt Holland
ARTSWORDS & LITERATURE
DEVELOPMENT 01793 771080
matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk
LOVE LITERATURE! LOVE READING! LOVE LIFE!
CULTURE SWINDON - Making culture visible, valued,
enjoyed and easily accessed by the people of Swindon. http://www.swindon.gov.uk/artsandculture.htm