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Posted on Friday, May 08, 2020
Every week, we will highlight a bookshelf from our staff and patrons in our "Weekly Shelfie" post. Email us your Shelfie and we will feature it in one of our future blog posts.
This week's Shelfie is from Sara.
Favourite book from childhood
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. A much better read as an adult in order to appreciate all the dark humour, wordplay, lessons we should continue to learn, and how we should maintain a sense of self in a world which is continuously changing.
Best poetry book
Milk and Honey by Canadian poet Rupi Kaur. A recent read (2020), and I am now reading Kaur's The Sun and her Flowers. Deeply personal, this collection of poetry, illustrated by the author, explores a number of themes, including femininity, love, loss, pain, and healing.
Book I'll never part with
The Comedians. A play by Trevor Griffiths set in the UK and first performed in 1975, it looks at humour and its role in society. "A joke which feeds on ignorance starves its audience". The play is set in a school room where would be comics are gathered at their last evening class. It explore the complexities of comedy and illustrates how the world of humour involves much anger, pain, and truth. Should comedy be entertainment and a series of one-liners exploiting certain avenues of society, or should it be there to challenge us and make us re-evaluate our behaviour?
Book which made me cry the most
Love Story by Erich Segal. Read this as a late teen and never have I cried so much. 'Nuff said.
What's on your bookshelves? Email us your Shelfie and we will feature it in one of our future blog posts.
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