Events and Activities
Book Club -- The Well-Read Dragons
Next meeting: Sat., August 7, 2010, Urban Harvest, 12:30p.m., 2311 18th Avenue Northeast Minneapolis, MN 55418-4819
Next Pick:
Book reports on any book by Welsh Canadian mystery writer Robertson Davies. Some possibilities: The Deptford Trilogy, Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders. All should be available in public libraries.
As always, everyone is invited. For more information, email David Conradi-Jones or call him at (651) 639-1688.
Books Read, since Feb. 2004
(in order of most recent):
Falls the Shadow by Sharon Penman, Second in Here Be Dragons trilogy.Baghdad Barcarolle by Holly Windle
Any book about King Arthur
On Angel Mountain, by Brian John
The Man who Went into the West, by Byron Rogers
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Ladies of Llangollen, by Elizabeth Mavor
Christmas in Wales, edited by Dewi Roberts
Tales from the Tinker's Dam by Daniel Gabriel (local author)
Any book by Ellis Peters and in Brother Cadfael mystery series
The Reluctant Redhead by Eluned Phillips
Wild Wales by George Borrow
Westering Home by Audrey McClellan
Early History of the Welsh in the Procairon District of Wisconsin translated by Phillips G. Davies, updated by Martha Davies
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Sugar & Slate by Charlotte Williams
Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare
Urban Dreams: Rural Realities by Daniel Butler & Bel Crewe
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
A Welsh Childhood by Alice Thomas Ellis
A Place in the Mind: A Boyhood in Llyn by R. Gerallt Jones
The Fight for Welsh Freedom by Gwynfor Evans
What I Saw in Bethesda by Charles Sheridan
A View Across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales c. 1850–1950 ed. by Jane Aaron
Travels in an Old Tongue by Pamela Petro
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Feet in Chains by Kate Roberts
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
The Matter of Wales by Jan Morris
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Sea Holly by Robert Minhinnick
Before the Last All Clear by Ray Evans