Here’s a schedule for the 9/24th meeting:
· Planner’s plan for us this year (Xiaoying: 10min )
· Reading of Good Earth,
a. General introduction, (3 min) Liana
b. Discussion of the themes, characters, and historical time (5 min of each person or each questions) (land, farming, migration, hunger, marriage, children…)
c. Good earth, the movie, schedule a time to watch at another time if enough interest from the group (2 min.)
· 30 min of individual announcements or sharing of what’s going on reading or non reading wise in their lives (3 min for each person)
· Wrap Up/what’s next reading (10 min, Xiaoying and Da Yan)
5 comments:
First 10 minutes: The result of survey and thus the reading list of the new season.
Sort of being like Wang Lung, with rice in store, there will be no fear of lacking of food for the winter. With the reading list in store we can safely fare into 2009 :-)
What a a good comparison! I like it.
boy o boy! I liked that comparison alot too! With rain being so important in the life of the farmers, I guess we can also use books as rain for our bookclub, they (books) would help nourish our spirits ,so that our knowledge would grow. (hopefully)
What a way to start a new season! We already have some fun in speaking metaphorically about the new season.
“Good reading season starts with Good Earth”
“book as rain will help nourish our spirits”
“reading list is food for winter”
We as farmer? Book club as farmland?
Let’s have more fun and everyone please join in.
yes, let's cultivate our land and mind. Harvesting will be upon us.
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