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The Surrender of Ad Alta Voce

20 Thursday Oct 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Books

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book-club, library, Reading aloud

aavsurrenderSo, we give up.

It makes me a littleĀ  sad to tell you that Ad Alta Voce, our not-quite-book-club, is no more.

It goes out without the least fuss. The meetings used to begin again in october, and this year they just do not. Maybe we’ll have one last reading-dinner with the very small group, but that’s it. End of the story.

And the smallness of the group is one reason why we are giving up. There’s seven of us, eight on good nights – out of which only five read. Always the same five, one being my mother, who only reads because of emotional blackmail. Other than that, we have had little or no response in the village. Oh, we had a few more people at the beginning, but almost no one read at all, and they quickly dropped out… Continue reading →

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