Reading Club - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Last Thursday the members of the CPI Tino Grandío Reading Club held another session to talk about the last book we have read: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. This time the meeting was for teachers and it took place in a cafeteria in Lugo. We talked about several aspects of the book:

• The historical period of the story.
• Mark Twain's ideas about life, literature, Don Quixote, and his childhood near river Mississippi.
• The differences between the characters: Huck, Tom Sawyer, Jim and Huck's father.
• Slavery in America and the changing ideas about it at the period.
• The river and its importance in the story.
• Similarities and differences with Don Quixote.

We must say that we all loved the story and that we are willing to read something, probably in French for the next session of our Club.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Reading Club

 Today we've had another session at the Reading Club to talk about the last book we've read: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A lot of students from the school were there to talk about this interesting story. We talked about the characters of Huck and Tom Sawyer, how different they are, the importance of river Mississippi in the story, 19th century America, slavery and many other topics.

Most of us had read the edition in English, abridged or unabridged, but some others weren't so confident and chose a translation into either Galician or Spanish. Despite the differences any edition is good when you want to appreciate a masterpiece like this one.

If you want to know more about this activity you may have a look at the Club de Lectura's blog.

Reading Club meeting-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The school reading Club is going to hold a meeting next Thursday at 12.15 at the school library. We'll talk about the book that we have been reading lately; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. If you have read it, please join us and tell us your opinion about it. If you haven't read it yet, borrow one copy from the school library becuse you still have time to read one of the shortened versions of the book. There are copies in English (in an adapted version or the original one) and translations into Spanish and Galician.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Reading Club

Next month the Reading Club at CPI Tino Grandío will have another session for those of us who enjoy reading books in English. Samuel Donnelly has suggested Huckleberry Finn and we are all looking forward to reading it. As some members of the reading club can't read fluently in English (mainly teachers, I'm afraid) some copies in Galician and Spanish will soon be bought.

If you think it's a difficult book for you, just try and take it home. You'll certainly like it as much as those of us who have already read it. You'll find it at the school library and you can listen to the audio files here.

If your English is very good you can try and have a look at the orginal book (ias the author wrote it) at the Project Gutenberg site.Click here.
... And if you aren't a member of the Reading Club yet, this is an excellent occasion for you to join it.