We had a wonderful poetry workshop with Ann Applegarth!
The theme was (appropriately) books!
We wrote short poems, silly poems, poems with a “famous opening line” as a prompt.
I will share more about the workshop, however, if you attend the meeting please post your poems!
Please join us in reading Just Kids by Patti Smith on March 17th at Pecos Flavors Winery at 4:30 p.m. Don’t forget to wear green!
The book for February was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Please share your thoughts about this book!
Please join us in reading, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. We will discuss it here on the blog and January 27th at Pecos Flavors Winery at 4:30 p.m.
Join us in reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; we will discuss it here on the blog and at our monthly book group meeting on Thursday, November 18th at 6:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Kentucky and Second St. Enter the southwest double doors off the parking lot.
This past Tuesday, I was on my way back from Albuquerque, and I couldn’t make the last book talk for The Maltese Falcon at NMMI. My junior colleague, MAJ Kyle Chaney, cheerfully agreed to step in for what turned out to be an amazing discussion. In true detective fashion, MAJ Chaney has parsed Hammett’s masterpiece to proffer the argument that Sam Spade is indeed Satan. Those of us who like to get our hands dirty, rifling through the pages of a novel, looking for clues, assembling the quotes for a literary analysis, will appreciate the craft of MAJ Chaney’s prose. Those of you who are learning to craft literary analysis should take a lesson from MAJ Chaney – read his essay, which is posted below.
Is Sam Spade really Satan, or did Brigid make him do it? This discussion is not for the weak of heart. MALTESE_FALCON[1]
Let’s start a new conversation. The Big Read site describes The Maltese Falcon as a brilliant work, fun to read, deeply observed, morally serious, a thriller, a love story, and a dark, dry comedy. We had a great discussion at the NMMI book talk Tuesday night about these generalizations. How would you categorize The Maltese Falcon? Does it defy generalization? Supply some evidence in support of your opinion. Break out those in-text citation skills. Give us a page number so that we can go right to your source. Spade is waiting to analyze your detective work!
