We're having a book club pot luck supper Wednesday, October 22 - Lots of good food and good company. All Middletown book clubs are invited, to celebrate National Book Club Month.
http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/09/30/national-reading-group-month/
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Wings of the Dove
We're reading the book Wings of the Dove, by Henry James - on Tuesday, November 25th we'll discuss book and movie. Here are some terrific links, courtesy of Charles -Kathleen
The complete text of The Wings of the Dove is available online at:http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathawar/wings1.html
Note that you can change the font size for more comfortable reading.
Here's the Wikipedia entry--there aren't any Cliffs Notes! :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_the_Dove
Here's info about the film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120520/
And here are 26 critics' reviews of the film--85% favorable!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wings_of_the_dove/
As a gratuitous bonus, here's a link to my first-ever published letter
to the editor, in the New York Times (it's second from the bottom):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/l12elderly.html
It is in response to this article about "elderspeak":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/07aging.html
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