Thursday, September 09, 2004

Huck, kids' books, Douglass autobio to be discussed Saturday

From Tom Peters and the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center:

September is shaping up to be another great month of online book discussions. This Saturday there will be three different online discussions. Beginning at 10:00 Central Daylight Time on Saturday morning there will be a discussion of two children's books which, like all good children's books, should be read and discussed by adults: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, and Little House on the Prairie. Beginning at 3:00 CDT on Saturday afternoon there will be a discussion of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Beginning at 7:00 CDT on Saturday evening there will be a discussion of Huck Finn which, along with the Great Gatsby, often comes up in conversations about the great American novel.

On Tuesday evening, September 21 beginning at 7:00 Centrall Daylight Time there will an online discussion of My Antonia. Graduate students at the Willa Cather Project at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln will participate in the discussion. Prof. Susan Rosowki, originally scheduled to take part, has had to cancel for health reasons.

Click here for more information about these events and links to the texts and the online meeting room.