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Great Books Program
Belvedere-Tiburon (Rex Fink Chapter)
Meetings - 2nd Tuesday, Founders Room, Belvedere-Tiburon Library
1:15-2:45pm
no meetings in July and August.
For questions or further information, please contact
Facilitator / Leader Phyllis Trieber, 415-435-1452 or
phyllistrieber@comcast.net
Honorary Leader: Chuck Auerbach.
Co-Facilitators: Marvin Mars and Alice Shelton.
Selections are alternated monthly from two books published by The Great Books Foundation: Great Conversations 4 and The 7 Deadly Sins. The group has chosen to read selections in thematic (rather than chronologic) order. The order of selections from Great Conversations 4 follows the “Connecting Themes”, as presented on page 433, beginning with “The Individual and Civic Virtue”. The selections from The 7 Deadly Sins are sequential, beginning with “Envy”.
Books can be ordered through The Great Books Foundation, http://store.greatbooks.org or 1-800-222-5870. A copy of each book is also available at the Belvedere - Tiburon Library.
The 2012- 2013 schedule is:
September 11, 2012 – Summer Reading Discussion
Participants will share selections of their choice by Charles Dickens.
October 9, 2012 - Great Conversations 4
William James: “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”
November 13, 2012 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Elizabeth Bowen: “The Inherited Clock”
December 11, 2012 - Great Conversations 4
Marcel Proust: "Swann’s Way"
January 8, 2013 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Raymond Carver: “Fat”
February 12, 2013 - Great Conversations 4
Anton Chekov: “The Darling”
March 12, 2013 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Xu Xi: “Famine”
April 9, 2013 - Great Conversations 4
Yasunari Kawabata: “First Snow on Mount Fuji”
May 14, 2013 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Perri Klass: “Not A Good Girl”
June 11, 2013 - Great Conversations 4
Clarice Lispector: “The Smallest Woman in the World”
July 2013
No meeting, but please read Jane Austen’s Emma (plus any additional Jane Austen novels of your choice) for discussion in September.
August 2013
No meeting, but please read Jane Austen’s Emma (plus any additional Jane Austen novels of your choice) for discussion in September.
September 10, 2013 - Great Conversations 4
Jane Austen: Emma. Plus, optional discussion of any additional Jane Austen novels chosen by participants for summer reading.
October 8, 2013 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Nathan Englander: “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges”
November 12, 2013 - Great Conversations 4
Lisel Mueller: selected poems (“Joy”, “The Power of Music to Disturb”, “Immortality”, “Into Space”)
December 10, 2013 - The 7 Deadly Sins
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
January 14, 2014 - Great Conversations 4
Eavan Boland: “Lava Cameo”
February 11, 2014 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Flannery O’Connor: “Good Country People”
March 11, 2014 - Great Conversations 4
Tim O’Brien: “The Things They Carried”
The above selections will complete our reading of both books. New book to be chosen in 2014 (or earlier).