It was a good evening, talking about Boats on Land.
I liked how we were able to stretch our dialogue into areas of identity, sexuality, language and forms, perspectives and stances, emotional areas, geographical spaces, intellectual dimensions and character analysis. It was a very rich discussion and I feel we talked our way into and out of the book well. For me a rich booktalk is when we add more value to our reading than if we did it alone and that was there.
Thank you Ranjan and Tanya, both of you were like a fresh new wind blowing into the booktalk house and you both were wonderfully participative and warm and friendly. I feel we must be doing some things right to have you come 🙂
Norma, thank you for prioritising booktalk on an emotionally difficult day and adding so much of powerful insight to our dialogue. My old brain kicks in to continue the discussion on indigenous brews and ‘feni’ would not qualify as it is not a native species to our land. So maybe coconut feni rather than the ever popular cashew feni (?) .
We await the next pick and know we will will meet on the 21st October at 6. 30 pm at Bookworm, Taleigao.
