W.E.L.L. Book Club Information
W.E.L.L.'s book club meets once a month to discuss the current book selection. Book suggestions are always welcomed as long as they are Feminist/Pro-Equality/Unity themed.
W.E.L.L. Book Club will meet at the Starbucks on Magazine St. in New Orleans, LA. For those not located in New Orleans you can take part in an online book discussion here.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ~Alice Walker
Current Book Selection: The Red Tent by Anita Diament
Future Book Selection: *Tenative 2011 Book Selections*:
July: The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
August: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
September: Hamlet by William Shakespeare as well as Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
October: Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
November: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
December: The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Previous Book Selections:
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Cunt by Inga Musico
For more information on the book club please contact Ariana Reid . [email protected]
W.E.L.L. Book Club will meet at the Starbucks on Magazine St. in New Orleans, LA. For those not located in New Orleans you can take part in an online book discussion here.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ~Alice Walker
Current Book Selection: The Red Tent by Anita Diament
Future Book Selection: *Tenative 2011 Book Selections*:
July: The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
August: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
September: Hamlet by William Shakespeare as well as Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
October: Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
November: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
December: The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Previous Book Selections:
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Cunt by Inga Musico
For more information on the book club please contact Ariana Reid . [email protected]
Our Book Club Diva
Ariana fell in love with New Orleans at the tender age of 9, by reading about the city in Anne Rice's books. It took her 10 years to get here with detours in Colorado and New York, but she did at 19, and hasn't left yet. She graduated from Tulane's Newcomb College in 2006 with a degree in English and Women's Studies, giving her no marketable skills which is why she now is the Fondue Goddess at The Melting Pot. She has been a voracious reader her entire life, and is very excited about WELL and it's Book Club, since she misses, desperately, talking with people about the books she's reading. She enjoys coffee, arguing in various poetic forms, consuming massive amounts of pop culture and had a thing for knights in shining armor. If she could meet anyone, it would be the Doctor, who could take her on amazing adventures through time and space in his TARDIS, or Neil Gaiman, who would build a fort with her and they could imagine they were on the TARDIS going through time and space. Because Neil Gaiman would totally be into that.
She has set up the book club for this year to be a sort of Feminism 101 class, scratching the
surface of a variety of topics. It starts in March with Manifesta, a good book for young feminists. Then it goes on to tackle, through fiction and non-fiction a range of women's issues, our bodies, female
spirituality, women in a male dominated world and what it does to us mentally and then scratching the surface of the complex issues brought to light in Victorian Gothic Literature: sexuality, madness, and the
ideal woman. I hope to achieve, this year, a spreading of a interesting way to look at literature, and at life through a feminist lens. And perhaps showing women that they have an interesting and rich
history of predecessors that rarely behaved, even when the odds were against them.
She has set up the book club for this year to be a sort of Feminism 101 class, scratching the
surface of a variety of topics. It starts in March with Manifesta, a good book for young feminists. Then it goes on to tackle, through fiction and non-fiction a range of women's issues, our bodies, female
spirituality, women in a male dominated world and what it does to us mentally and then scratching the surface of the complex issues brought to light in Victorian Gothic Literature: sexuality, madness, and the
ideal woman. I hope to achieve, this year, a spreading of a interesting way to look at literature, and at life through a feminist lens. And perhaps showing women that they have an interesting and rich
history of predecessors that rarely behaved, even when the odds were against them.