READING FROM YOUR LIFE

A Reading Group with a Difference
with Aled Jones Williams

We will read texts from our life experiences.  It will be not just reading for enjoyment—although I would trust that it will be that! - but certain passages from the books might capture something from your lived experiences and you will want to look at them in more depth.  Perhaps it might not be all that clear why you like or don’t like a passage but you choose to struggle with it.  This might ‘link’ to someone else’s chosen passage in the work so that we become a community of readers and not a group that merely talks about literature.

The aim is to see how literature can change you and is able to deepen your life.

Read the texts before hand and mark passages that appeal to you in some way AND passages that you don’t like or find perplexing.

These are the texts we will read:

October 20th
Cousin Henry -Anthony Trollope (Oxford World's Classics)

November 3rd
Later Life: A Double Sonnets of Sonnets -Christina Rossetti
(Poems and Prose-Oxford World's Classics)

November 10th
The Other Side of You - Salley Vickers (Fourth Estate)

November 17th 
Mary Wesley-The Camomile Lawn (Any Edition)

November 24th 
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively  (Penguin)

There are a number of second hand editions of these to be found on Amazon.  Copies also may be obtained from your local library.

Venue: Tŷ Newydd Writers’ Centre, Llanystumdwy, Cricieth, Gwynedd LL52 0LW.
Time:   7 p.m.—9 p.m.,
Price: £10 for 5 sessions

Places are limited to 12 so if you wish to join the group please contact :
Tŷ Newydd, National Writers’ Centre for Wales, Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd LL52 0LW.
01766 522811 post@tynewydd.org   www.tynewydd.org
                                   
An Arts in Health & Wellbeing Project
Autumn 2010

Supported by Cyngor Gwynedd