Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Forgery of Venus October 2012


The Fairfax Library Book Discussion Group will meet this Thursday, October 11th  at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fairfax Library to discuss our October book: The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber.

Here are some links for additional background and information:

Beckett’s play, Krapp’s LastTape and a YouTubevideo of a performance from the play


Examples of Teipolo’s work and his frescoesin the Wurzburg Residenz (check out that staircase!)

Velasquez website with pictures of his artwork

An art critic’s review of the book

And, a youtube trailer for the book (because it’s not enough to just write a book anymore…)

 

Coming up, we have the following titles to look forward to reading:

 

November 8                LostKingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America’s First ImperialAdventure by Julia Flynn Siler –

The author, Julia Siler, will join us this evening to discuss her book and her research about Hawaii

December 13              The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

 

Thanks for reading with us. I look forward to seeing you at the Fairfax Library.

Beth Bailey-Gates
Friends of the Fairfax Library
bethmbg@gmail.com