Thursday, July 22, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Rampire Readers and LibrariesWest
Hello RR!
Just a quick update to let you know that Rampire Readers has officially been registered as a Reading Group with LibrariesWest.
Our books will be reserved a month in advance and the copies to be handed out during the Spetember session are already on their way...
E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G!!!!!!
Just a quick update to let you know that Rampire Readers has officially been registered as a Reading Group with LibrariesWest.
Our books will be reserved a month in advance and the copies to be handed out during the Spetember session are already on their way...
E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G!!!!!!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Our Summer Read
CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese (www.abrahamverghese.com)
Heather's choice, first published in February 2009.
On CUTTING FOR STONE...
"Verghese's achievement is to make the reader feel there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty. There's no smug postmodern self-undermining (otherwise known as irony) here: the mythic arises seamlessly from the quotidian; telepathy or saintly intercessions are simply accepted - as they often are in Ethiopian life. You conserve pages because you don't want it to end."
Aida Edemariam, The Guardian
"As a novelist, Verghese looks to models like Salman Rushdie and John Irving: the novel is capacious, not to say baggy, in the way those writers’ novels can be, and it is tinged, albeit lightly, with a sense of magic, though one senses that Verghese in his soul is too much a realist ever to be quite convinced of his own attempts in this department."
Erica Wagner, The New York Times
"In Cutting for Stone, renowned physician Abraham Verghese has given us a remarkable reading experience that explores the lives of a memorable cast of characters, many of them doctors; the insight the novel offers into the world of medicine, along with its wealth of precise detail about how doctors work, is unparalleled in American fiction. Verghese is so attuned to the movements of the heart and of the mind, so adept at dramatizing the great themes of human existence, and he has filled this world with such richly drawn, fascinating characters, that Cutting for Stone becomes one of those rare books one wishes would never end, an alternate reality that both rivals and illuminates the real world readers must return to when the book is closed."
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/
We will be discussing CUTTING FOR STONE chez Heather on Wednesday 1st of September at 18.00...
Heather's choice, first published in February 2009.
On CUTTING FOR STONE...
"Verghese's achievement is to make the reader feel there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty. There's no smug postmodern self-undermining (otherwise known as irony) here: the mythic arises seamlessly from the quotidian; telepathy or saintly intercessions are simply accepted - as they often are in Ethiopian life. You conserve pages because you don't want it to end."
Aida Edemariam, The Guardian
"As a novelist, Verghese looks to models like Salman Rushdie and John Irving: the novel is capacious, not to say baggy, in the way those writers’ novels can be, and it is tinged, albeit lightly, with a sense of magic, though one senses that Verghese in his soul is too much a realist ever to be quite convinced of his own attempts in this department."
Erica Wagner, The New York Times
"In Cutting for Stone, renowned physician Abraham Verghese has given us a remarkable reading experience that explores the lives of a memorable cast of characters, many of them doctors; the insight the novel offers into the world of medicine, along with its wealth of precise detail about how doctors work, is unparalleled in American fiction. Verghese is so attuned to the movements of the heart and of the mind, so adept at dramatizing the great themes of human existence, and he has filled this world with such richly drawn, fascinating characters, that Cutting for Stone becomes one of those rare books one wishes would never end, an alternate reality that both rivals and illuminates the real world readers must return to when the book is closed."
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/
We will be discussing CUTTING FOR STONE chez Heather on Wednesday 1st of September at 18.00...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader according to Daniel Pennac:
1. The right to not read,
2. The right to skip pages,
3. The right to not finish a book,
4. The right to reread,
5. The right to read anything,
6. The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,
7. The right to read anywhere,
8. The right to sample and steal ("grappiller")
9. The right to read out-loud, and,
10. The right to be silent
Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992)
2. The right to skip pages,
3. The right to not finish a book,
4. The right to reread,
5. The right to read anything,
6. The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,
7. The right to read anywhere,
8. The right to sample and steal ("grappiller")
9. The right to read out-loud, and,
10. The right to be silent
Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992)
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