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Reading Roundup, October 2024
Oct. 25th, 2024 09:29 amThe Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Werther is this term’s reading group book—sort of. We finished the (quite short) book by early October, and are now discussing the opera adaptation. It’s very fun! I appreciate getting to see both a text and its adaptation in close proximity, especially a text and an adaptational medium that I would never have chosen to approach on my own.
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A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym
Our delightful first-person narrator is Wilmet Forsyth, a 1950s middle-class London housewife in her thirties. Pym takes the basic premise of boredom with one’s marriage amidst a backdrop of neighborhood gossip and makes it a compelling piece of character work as we’re exposed to each player and their dramas through Wilmet’s judgmental eyes.
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Werther is this term’s reading group book—sort of. We finished the (quite short) book by early October, and are now discussing the opera adaptation. It’s very fun! I appreciate getting to see both a text and its adaptation in close proximity, especially a text and an adaptational medium that I would never have chosen to approach on my own.
( Read more... )
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym
Our delightful first-person narrator is Wilmet Forsyth, a 1950s middle-class London housewife in her thirties. Pym takes the basic premise of boredom with one’s marriage amidst a backdrop of neighborhood gossip and makes it a compelling piece of character work as we’re exposed to each player and their dramas through Wilmet’s judgmental eyes.
( Read more... )
