About us
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This is a group where we read everything out loud during our meetings — poetry, short stories, plays, novels and non-fiction. Therefore, there’s no need to prepare by reading anything in advance. Either a link to the text will be provided, or we'll do screen-sharing.
You don't have to be a "good reader" to participate; we all get better through practice. It's more fun and more learning happens when people read together, sharing their perspectives.
Another advantage of this format is that we can all react "in the moment" to what we are reading, unlike in regular book clubs where you read the book first, and then forget some of it by the time you actually get to talk about it.
The group was founded by Phyllis in mid-2020, and has been going strong ever since!
Upcoming events
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Read-Aloud: "Pygmalion", by George Bernard Shaw
·OnlineOnline(In our read-alouds, the text is screen-shared. No experience in reading aloud or advance preparation necessary. Our starting location will be given in a comment.)
(Wiki:) In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the musical Adonis and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.
Pygmalion became Shaw's most popular play, enduring in popular culture as the heavily adapted and romanticized My Fair Lady (1956 musical and 1964 film).
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Latecomers (unless we know you) will generally NOT BE ADMITTED once the reading starts.If this is your first time with us, consider joining five minutes early, so we can work out any technical issues you may be having.
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Past events
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