Re: [Book Club] February - The Enchantress of Florence: New Date!

[Devon Wilson Hill]

Let's plan on meeting the following week so more people can attend: Wed, March 2. 

Please let me know if you can attend.

(Emily, I can give you a ride back to the ville if you take the T over).

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Shira Rosan <shira...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pretty sure I'll make the 23 but fine with pushing it back if more folks can come. 

Shira

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On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Sara Yablon-Smith <sara.yab...@gmail.com> wrote:

i can't do the 23rd, but could do the next week

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kate Hoagland <kt...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I think I can make it, but wouldn't mind pushing it back a week if easier.

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Subject: Re: [Book Club] February - The Enchantress of Florence

I'll be on another work trip :(

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Taylor Wilson-Hill <trw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll be there!!! Aren't I helpful?
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Devon Wilson Hill <dev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It has come to my attention that 2/23 is school vacation week. Would you
>> let me know if you plan on coming  2/23. If not enough people can make it, I
>> will change the week. Happy Friday!
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Devon Wilson Hill <dev...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In February we will meet in the North End in honor of Florence.  I know
>>> that might be a trek for some but prospects of tasty Italian eats and Mike's
>>> Pastry should be enough to entice you. Right?
>>>
>>> Date: Wednesday, February, 23rd
>>> Time: 6:30
>>> Where: 4 Copps Hill Terrace, #1
>>> Logistics: IT's really not as terrible a commute as it seems!!
>>> T is your best bet, Parking at Lechemere is also simple and then a quick
>>> ride away; there is 2 hour parking across from the apt and nearby.  There is
>>> no Celtics/Bruins eventing so I will see if I can get a discounted rate at
>>> the parking place next door for those of you with specific driving needs
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Devon Wilson Hill <dev...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Book Club!
>>>>
>>>> Here's to the month of romance!  I will be hosting February's reunion e
>>>> festa.  We will be reading The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie.
>>>> It's been very popular and received great reviews.  I will send out the date
>>>> later this week, but get reading!
>>>>
>>>> Here's a quick review from Publisher's Weeky (June 2008) as found on
>>>> Amazon:
>>>>
>>>> Renaissance Florence's artistic zenith and Mughal India's cultural
>>>> summit—reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar's court in Sikri—are
>>>> the twin beacons of Rushdie's ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return
>>>> to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the
>>>> magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara Köz, so gorgeous that her
>>>> uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story
>>>> underlies the book's circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a
>>>> multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into
>>>> 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer's
>>>> tricks and claims to be Akbar's uncle. He carries with him a letter from
>>>> Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness.
>>>> But it is the story of Akbar's great-aunt, Qara Köz, that the man (her
>>>> putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of
>>>> Akbar's grandfather, Babar (Qara Köz's brother), and it involves her
>>>> relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah's employ is Janissary
>>>> general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the
>>>> narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie eventually presents an extended
>>>> portrait of Florence through the eyes of Niccolò Machiavelli and Ago
>>>> Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie's portrayal of Florence
>>>> pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it
>>>> brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary
>>>> connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that's
>>>> disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the
>>>> novel's roundabout way, Qara Köz does seem more alive as a sexual obsession
>>>> in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar,
>>>> however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu
>>>> tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders
>>>> whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. In Rushdie's version of
>>>> the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in
>>>> Akbar as he listens to the tales. Each culture becomes the dream of the
>>>> other. (June)
>>>>
>>>> The NYT also wrote something in the magazine
>>>>
>>>> Devon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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[Devon Wilson Hill]

Only a few days away, We'll meet to discuss the Enchantress of Florence.  Please let me know if you can attend!

When?  Wed, March 2 at 6:30
Where?  4 Copps Hill Terrace, #1, North End
Questions?  Devon & Taylor:  609-970-7235

Devon