The Main Library’s Club de Lectura (Spanish Reading Club) is celebrating its second year. Every month for the last two years, the group met to discuss a wide variety of authors and their books in an informal, amicable, and sometimes funny way. They gather at 6:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room and discuss an author’s biography, bibliographic creation, and the main themes of the book at hand. Sometimes participants read particular paragraphs to make their points understandable. For all the books to be discussed, information is gathered to direct readers in the interpretation and a better perception of the author’s work.
Reading Club members are diverse, in a way reflecting our community. There are Colombians, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and also people from Mexico, Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Guatemala. Everyone brings their perspective into the meetings and their understanding of the issues at hand at that moment.
The authors have been chosen by the group from the best-seller lists and other lists compiled at the Library. Over 21 titles have been read over the last two years, including some Nobel Prize winning authors and best-sellers such as:
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Paulo Coelho "El Alquimista"
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Isabel Allende "Inés del alma mía," "La suma de los días"
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Mario Vargas Llosa "Travesuras de la niña mala," "La fiesta del Chivo"
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Orham Pamuk "Nieve"
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Laura Restrepo "La isla de la pasión"
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Rosario Ferre "La casa de la laguna"
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José Saramago "Las pequeñas memorias"
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Gabriel García Márquez "Cien años de soledad," "El amor en los tiempos del cólera"
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Jorge Luis Borges "Ficciones"
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón "El juego del ángel"
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Alejo de Carpentier "El reino de este mundo"
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Carlos Fuentes "La voluntad y la fortuna"
The Reading Club has also participated in book-related outside programs, at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and had a lecture open to the general public, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, to better understand “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and Gabriel García Márquez’s “Opera Prima.”
So, for a start, this Club de Lectura has done pretty well! |
