Welcome to the Learning English Through Literature Blog!

This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.

As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.

Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.

So get writing!

Oliver

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

LETL: The Next Generation

Okay People,

Welcome.

As promised, here we are, finally... The Learning English Through Literature blog! As you will be able to see from the posts below by students over previous courses, this can indeed be a valuable and interesting way of keeping in touch and exchanging ideas about the texts we are looking at when your not in class, and start to miss each other... And me of course.

As a starter then, after you´ve accepted the invite and become a member of the blog, I´d like to to make a post, preferably before the class on Friday on your thoughts, if you have any... On The Famished Road. Comment on each others comments too if you like...

All right, so good luck getting to grips with it

And see you on Friday

Best

Oliver
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6 comments:

  1. Oliver16 November 2010 at 09:40

    Oh and PS- the book list opposite starts with week 1 at the bottom and works its way up to the last and final(and best, I´d like to think...)week, in case there´s any questions. What can i say, I just like to be difficult.

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  2. Albatros16 November 2010 at 10:48

    Hello!
    I’m sorry, but I can’t write anything about my thoughts of On The Famished Road, because (for the moment) I don’t have time to read it, yet! (I’m reading two books for the university and I have a lot of work to do for this week…)

    But, as you can see, I made a post! ;)

    See you!!

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  3. Julia16 November 2010 at 11:24

    I am indulging myself through winding roads who are undoubtedly driving me crazy!!. Anyway it is a wonderful exercise to come to terms with those sacred and profane swahili stories that I once heard in Kenya which my children adored ("into chaos and sunlight, into the dreams of the living and the dead").
    May the spirit-child have mercy on us!
    Take care,
    Julia

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  4. vafalungo17 November 2010 at 03:10

    Hi, all!
    I'll do my best to finish the book before Friday's class. I'm enjoying a lot the reading. I already said it, but it reminds me Gina Nahai's books, changing the African cultural background for the Iranian one. In some minutes I'll try to post my feelings about what I've read of The Famished Road and I'll try to complete it before Friday.
    Aniol

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  5. Julia18 November 2010 at 09:01

    I personaly liked that passage when Azaro's father says:" Wars are not fought on battlegrounds but in a space samller than the head of a neddle. We need a new language to talk to one another. Inside a cat there are many histories, many books. When you look into the eyes of dogs strange fishes swim in your mind. All roads lead to death, but some roads lead to things which can never be finished".
    Despite Africa's long suffering I am glad to think that there might be a new light in its destiny and true happiness on this earth.
    I am not sure I understood all its meanings but I found The Famished Road very poetic and edifying. At least Ben Okri's conference was full of radiance and joy.
    Thanks, Oliver...
    See you tomorrow,
    Julia

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  6. Oliver19 November 2010 at 05:29

    Thanks everyone for posting, I hope in future weeks this becomes a real source of information and an additional way to exchange our opinions after and before class. Love that quote too, Julia, good choice... And CONGRATS on working out how to post! Well done!

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