(Old School is JCL's Big Read selection for 2009.)
The question was asked, “Would you recommend this book to someone else?”
Marie: “Now that we've discussed it, I probably would.”
Vickie: “No, too hard to get into. Once I got to the middle I began to enjoy it.”
Brenda: "Yes, with time to reread it."
Sue: “No, I wouldn't recommend it. But I liked the literary anecdotes.”
Rose: “I would recommend it to some people.”
Janine: “The themes were much more complex and deeper than it seemed on the surface. I enjoyed it.”
Georgianna: “I wasn't impressed.”
Ann: “I thought it was dry--very dry.”
Marianne: "No, I didn't like it. He spent too much time talking about the works of other writers instead of telling his own story."
Judy: "I wasn't impressed."
(Note: Integral to our discussion was the full section of the poem from which the book's epigraph was taken: "Elegy for My Father: Robert Strand 1908-1968" from New Selected Poems by Mark Strand, 2007.)
The question was asked, “Would you recommend this book to someone else?”
Marie: “Now that we've discussed it, I probably would.”
Vickie: “No, too hard to get into. Once I got to the middle I began to enjoy it.”
Brenda: "Yes, with time to reread it."
Sue: “No, I wouldn't recommend it. But I liked the literary anecdotes.”
Rose: “I would recommend it to some people.”
Janine: “The themes were much more complex and deeper than it seemed on the surface. I enjoyed it.”
Georgianna: “I wasn't impressed.”
Ann: “I thought it was dry--very dry.”
Marianne: "No, I didn't like it. He spent too much time talking about the works of other writers instead of telling his own story."
Judy: "I wasn't impressed."
(Note: Integral to our discussion was the full section of the poem from which the book's epigraph was taken: "Elegy for My Father: Robert Strand 1908-1968" from New Selected Poems by Mark Strand, 2007.)
