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Thanks for putting this together...looking forward to it!
Any Interest In Monthly Book Club?
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Alicia karr
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Of course you are welcome to join Maxime! The first meeting will be Friday, July 26 at 3:00 I will send you the address this week.
Morgan Dada
Beware! There is a Bengali person ( Bong in short) in the group, and few more in city of BA. And you need not go to Dhaka only to speak Bengali (Bangla in native language), you can also speak Bengali in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). In fact Bengali is the 6th most popular language.
Before I proceed further, 'Dada' is not a slang in Bengali.......it's literal meaning is elderly brother...... it is also used to address any man with respect.
Bengali is a very sweet language (and we Bengali's do eat a lot of sweet). We are blessed to have many stalwarts in Bengali literature including Tagore. However very few of them are translated in other languages and hence not known outside. There is also a growing breed of Bengali writers in English including Amitav Ghosh (many of his novels have Bengal in backdrop). You can read more on Bengali laguage in wiki.
Do you know that Tagore visited Buenos Aires in 1924 and stayed for few months. He met Borges and other literally persons of Argentina.
I would love to blabber with you in Bengali but the proposed date of 26-Jul (Fri) does not suit me. I can join on weekeneds.
~ Koustav
Beware! There is a Bengali person ( Bong in short) in the group, and few more in city of BA. And you need not go to Dhaka only to speak Bengali (Bangla in native language), you can also speak Bengali in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). In fact Bengali is the 6th most popular language.
Before I proceed further, 'Dada' is not a slang in Bengali.......it's literal meaning is elderly brother...... it is also used to address any man with respect.
Bengali is a very sweet language (and we Bengali's do eat a lot of sweet). We are blessed to have many stalwarts in Bengali literature including Tagore. However very few of them are translated in other languages and hence not known outside. There is also a growing breed of Bengali writers in English including Amitav Ghosh (many of his novels have Bengal in backdrop). You can read more on Bengali laguage in wiki.
Do you know that Tagore visited Buenos Aires in 1924 and stayed for few months. He met Borges and other literally persons of Argentina.
I would love to blabber with you in Bengali but the proposed date of 26-Jul (Fri) does not suit me. I can join on weekeneds.
~ Koustav
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Greetings fellow readers! I am sending out the address of our first meeting (Friday, July 26 at 3:00) by PM. if anyone doesn't receive the info and is interested please contact me. Really looking forward to meeting everyone! Alicia
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An exciting update: as of today the book club kick off will have 16 attendees! Yikes I better get a bigger apartment! So very happy that we can all do this together! Look forward to meeting everyone.
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Dearest Members of the BAExpats BookClub,
I regret to inform you that I will not be able to participate in, at least, the first meeting for various reasons. In my absence, please fill the conversation with nonsensical references to famous philosophers so that everyone thinks you're smart even if you are just experimenting in the Theater of the Absurd.
I think it is respectful to submit, to a candid world, the reasons why I won't be able to attend:
1.) I'll be mostly in Santiago for a month, leaving a few days before, so I won't even be in the country.
2.) Even if I were in the country, I work -- very very very intensely -- during business hours (it's not coincidental my posts here are usually timestamped 2am!)
3.) Even if I work during business hours, Recoleta is far enough away from here (Palermo) so I can't just step out
4.) Even if I could just step out for an hour, I'm not sure I would be up-to-par for high expectations of the group, unfortunately; we've set high expectations in this thread, and now the club needs to be super-amazing to live up to them, and I'm just not sure I'm worthy enough. Just reading this thread here, seeing the esteemed international membership, literature lovers from all over the world, sharing the subtleties of the best literature regardless of provenance, and undoubtedly with a level of criticism worthy of the contemporary critics like the unfailingly insightful Harold Bloom, although I don't yet know if the Club's style will be more of the French literary criticism style (Lacan-infused post-everything) or American-style (think Lionel Trilling at his best!) -- oh the opportunities, the doors, the adventures, the paths!!! The questions you'll need to wrestle with, like, how to choose what book to read (is the club a democracy? But wasn't democracy - the demos in control! - the worst form of all governments according to Plato?) and how to structure the conversation about it, if at all, for the structure often is the key determinant in the success! That and time and chance, which happens to them all!
5.) Even if I were worthy of the club, I read and read and read and read non-stop but my reading tastes are bizarrely eccentric and thus the rest of the group is unlikely to be interested in what I read. A huge amount of what I read involves Shakespeare. In my trip last week to NY, I returned with 40 new books to read (no exaggeration), with exciting titles like the academic tome, "Shakespeare and the Law" (a subject I find fascinating!). Not best-sellers, in fact, my purchase of this book probably doubled the annual sales of the book! So my reading list probably is not on target for the group.
I wish everyone the best of luck and bid you Adieu, to the Gods above, may the Book Club grant all members enjoyment, intellectual stimulation and plant the seeds of true friendship!
Morgan
I regret to inform you that I will not be able to participate in, at least, the first meeting for various reasons. In my absence, please fill the conversation with nonsensical references to famous philosophers so that everyone thinks you're smart even if you are just experimenting in the Theater of the Absurd.
I think it is respectful to submit, to a candid world, the reasons why I won't be able to attend:
1.) I'll be mostly in Santiago for a month, leaving a few days before, so I won't even be in the country.
2.) Even if I were in the country, I work -- very very very intensely -- during business hours (it's not coincidental my posts here are usually timestamped 2am!)
3.) Even if I work during business hours, Recoleta is far enough away from here (Palermo) so I can't just step out
4.) Even if I could just step out for an hour, I'm not sure I would be up-to-par for high expectations of the group, unfortunately; we've set high expectations in this thread, and now the club needs to be super-amazing to live up to them, and I'm just not sure I'm worthy enough. Just reading this thread here, seeing the esteemed international membership, literature lovers from all over the world, sharing the subtleties of the best literature regardless of provenance, and undoubtedly with a level of criticism worthy of the contemporary critics like the unfailingly insightful Harold Bloom, although I don't yet know if the Club's style will be more of the French literary criticism style (Lacan-infused post-everything) or American-style (think Lionel Trilling at his best!) -- oh the opportunities, the doors, the adventures, the paths!!! The questions you'll need to wrestle with, like, how to choose what book to read (is the club a democracy? But wasn't democracy - the demos in control! - the worst form of all governments according to Plato?) and how to structure the conversation about it, if at all, for the structure often is the key determinant in the success! That and time and chance, which happens to them all!
5.) Even if I were worthy of the club, I read and read and read and read non-stop but my reading tastes are bizarrely eccentric and thus the rest of the group is unlikely to be interested in what I read. A huge amount of what I read involves Shakespeare. In my trip last week to NY, I returned with 40 new books to read (no exaggeration), with exciting titles like the academic tome, "Shakespeare and the Law" (a subject I find fascinating!). Not best-sellers, in fact, my purchase of this book probably doubled the annual sales of the book! So my reading list probably is not on target for the group.
I wish everyone the best of luck and bid you Adieu, to the Gods above, may the Book Club grant all members enjoyment, intellectual stimulation and plant the seeds of true friendship!
Morgan
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Oh Koustav! How exciting! I had no idea that Tagore visited Buenos Aires -- but that makes sense, since, in his era, Buenos Aires was in its prime and would attract the greatest artists from around the world! Question: if I wanted to read a great Bengali (language) poem, but in a great English translation -- what would you recommend? Or would you recommend Amitov Ghosh?
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Greetings fellow "lectors"! Clean those eyeglasses! Charge those kindles! Prepare or purchase that snack to bring! The first meeting of the BAExpats bookclub is almost upon us! I thought it would be cool also to have a free book exchange. For example if you bring a book to pass on, you would get to take a book. Bring two, take two if you want....
And thus will pass this Friday afternoon, July 26 at 3:00; a premiere afternoon of suprises, discussions, refreshments, and new friendships. The cost of entry, free, the occasion, priceless! Viva nuestro Club de Libros!.
And if you're viewing this info for the first time and want to be part of this new group, PM me and I'll give you the address and my phone for this first meeting.
Alicia
And thus will pass this Friday afternoon, July 26 at 3:00; a premiere afternoon of suprises, discussions, refreshments, and new friendships. The cost of entry, free, the occasion, priceless! Viva nuestro Club de Libros!.
And if you're viewing this info for the first time and want to be part of this new group, PM me and I'll give you the address and my phone for this first meeting.
Alicia
