Juan Pablo Forner Reading Club: The wisdom of Mark Twain.

jueves, 3 de noviembre de 2011

The wisdom of Mark Twain.

Mark Twain was famous for his quotes. Here's a video clip where you can read some of them. If you enjoy it, you might feel like checking out the following website, dedicated entirely to his quotations:

www. twainquotes.com

Out of all the great messages contained in the clip, I will outline this one, which I think summarizes our club very well:
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

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What we have read so far...

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Mark Twain).
"Fahrenheit 451" (Ray Bradbury).
"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" (Yiyun Li).
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee).
"Bridget Jones's Diary" (Helen Fielding).
"Dubliners" (James Joyce).
"The Secret Life of Bees" (S. M. Kidd).
“Frankenstein” (M. Shelley).
“The Samurai’s Garden” (Gail Tsukiyama).
“The Quiet American” (Graham Greene).
“The Namesake” (J. Lahiri).
“The Turn of the Screw” (Henry James).
“Mrs Dalloway” (V. Woolf).
“The Accidental Tourist” (Anne Tyler).
“If Only They Could Talk” (James Herriot).
“Never Let Me Go” (Kazuo Ishiguro).
“Tuesdays with Morrie” (Mitch Albom).
“The Fall Of The House Of Usher And Other Tales” (Edgar Allan Poe).
“An Ideal Husband” (O. Wilde).
“The Good Earth” (P.S. Buck).
“And Then There Were None” (Agatha Christie).
"Sweet Bird of Youth" (Tennessee Williams).
"Pride and Prejudice" (J. Austen).
"The Importance of Being Earnest" (Oscar Wilde).
"My family and Other Animals" (Gerald Durrell).
"Strangers on a Train" (Patricia Highsmith).
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Truman Capote).
"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" (John Boyne).
"Animal Farm" (G. Orwell).

Third barbecue and book-crossing adventure.

Last 2 July we had our third barbecue and we did some book-crossing for the first time. I think, all in all, people enjoyed the experience; though I suppose we can improve things in future editions.

Some of the books that came out of the bag were:

- The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger.

- The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield.

- The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.

- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

- 1984, by George Orwell.

- Small Vices by Robert B. Parker.

- Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

- Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell.

- King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard.

- Things the Grandchildren Should Know, by Mark Oliver Everett.

Book-crossing!

Would you like to play a little game?

These are the rules:

- You think of a book you really love, and that you would like to share with others.

- You get a copy of the book (it may be your used one).

- You wrap it up as a present.

- On Barbecue Day (2nd July), at Casa Juanita (directions will be appropriately given, when the time comes), we will pick one book at random.

- At the end of the day, our stomachs will be full, and we will have some excellent reading for the summer! Great, ain't it?

Come on and join our "Book-Crossing-cum-Barbecue party"!!!

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jueves, 3 de noviembre de 2011

The wisdom of Mark Twain.

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