Great Books Reading Discussion Group

Great Books meets at 7:00 pm on the third Thursday of the month in the mezzanine Board Room. Everyone is welcome, there is no charge to attend. The selection should be read in advance.To preserve continuity, attendance at each discussion is highly desired.

2009-2010 Selections

October 15 - The Continuing Silence of a Poet
by A.B Yehoshua
November 19 - Iphigeneia at Aulis
by Euripides
December 17 - Barn Burning
by William Faulkner
January 21 - New African by Andrea Lee
February 18 - Letter to His Father and The Judgement by Franz Kafka
March 18 - Poetry by William Butler Yeats, Derek Walcott, Randall Jarrell and Sharon Olds
April 15 - Questions for Persuasion
by Jane Austen
May 20 - Questions for Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Boll

2008-2009 Selections

The Highest Good by Aristotle
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
Three Lives of Lucie Carroll by John Berger
Happiness by Mary Lavin
Endless Mountains by Reynolds Price
As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Group selection to be made of one of two novels:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
or
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf