Reading Literature Course through Bend Park & Rec

Want to get the most from your book club discussions?

Would you like to enhance your personal reading experience?

Whether you're a member of a book group or a solitary reader, you will gain analytical skills for a deeper exchange of ideas with an enriched understanding from the literature you read. These instructor-led courses (organized by Bend Parks & Rec) are held in a relaxed, book club-style setting and give you valuable methods to:

• Creatively analyze literature
  
• Refresh or gain knowledge of literary terms, devices, and techniques so you can articulate what you see and feel when you read
  
• Examine book content to find connection and meaning to real-life experiences, giving you new ways to think about what you gain from a novel

NOVELS OF STUDY:

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Tuesdays, January 18 - February 22, 2011 :: 10:00 a.m. - noon

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy

Tuesdays, March 8 - April 12, 2011 :: 10:00 a.m. - noon

Classes held at Camalli Book Company, 1288 SW Simpson Avenue, Bend.

COST: $80.00 per six-week session.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: https://register.bendparksandrec.org/, phone 541-389-7275.

BEND PARK & RECREATION PROGRAM # 106212.01

INSTRUCTOR: Sally Jo Smith is a former English teacher, adult literature instructor, writer, and lifelong reader who enjoys discussing great literature with others.

Camalli Book Club Discussion Dec. 2

Join us at 6:30 on December 2 for an open discussion about The Saga of Gösta Berling. The Camalli Book Clubs are open to all and provide a great opportunity to meet new book lovers and to discuss the craft of writing and storytelling. This general book club meets the first Thursday of every month. This book is available at the store for 15% until December 2.

The Saga of Gösta Berling was Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf's first novel, published in 1891. The novel is a notable and still much read example of the 1890s wave of Swedish Neo-romanticism. Using wolves, snow, supernatural elements and eccentric upper-class characters to project an exotic image of 1820s Värmland, the novel can be compared to magic realism. The novel is set in Värmland, Sweden---the author's birthplace---between 1820 and 1830. The first sentence, "Finally, the vicar was in the pulpit," is one of the more famous in Swedish literature.

Saturday, December 4: Take Your Child to a Booktore Day!

November Book Clubs

Join us for our November book clubs!

Ursula K. Le Guin & Roger Dorband at Camalli Book Co.

Author Ursula K. Le Guin and photographer Roger Dorband will join us at Camalli Book Company on Friday, October 29, at 6:30 p.m. as they present their new book Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country.

Featuring 26 poems and 23 pen-and-ink drawings by Ursula K. Le Guin and 59 color photographs by Roger Dorband, Out Here draws its inspiration from the Steens Mountain region of the high-desert country of southeast Oregon, known for its elemental landscape, austere beauty, and immense spaces.t

Book Clubs!

Author Saralee Lawrence at Camalli on October 12

Join us on Tuesday, October 12, at 6:30 when Saralee Lawrence joins us at Camalli to discuss her new book, River House: A Memoir.

An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning to her family's ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up right here in Central Oregon (Terrebonne) and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of the most dangerous rivers of the world as an accomplished river guide. But living her dream led her back to the place she least expected---her dusty beginnings and her family's home.

River House is a beautiful story about a daughter's return and her relationship with her father, who she enlists to help brave the cold winter and build a log house by hand. Together, they work through the harsh winter, father helping daughter every step of the way.

Sarahlee Lawrence was born and raised on her family ranch in Terrebonne. After a decade spent studying, traveling, river rafting, and earning her MS in Environmental Science and Writing from the University of Montana, she returned to the ranch, where she owns and operates an organic vegetable farm.