The Arroyo Book Club picked a book out of Project Gutenberg to read for our June discussion. This month is a fiction month so the book that we picked was A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.
This classic written in 1722 is an account of the Great Plague of London that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe writes the story as an eyewitness report and the novel abounds in memorable, realistic details.
You will find a downloadable copy of the book here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Those of you who like to use Overdrive will find an “always available” copy there (https://lapl.overdrive.com/library/available/media/786308). The drawback is it will have a due date.
The plan is for everyone to download a copy and spend the first couple of weeks of June reading. I will begin posting questions to discuss on the group’s web bulletin board space on June 16 and will add a new question each day until June 27 (our regular meeting day). I encourage members to log on each day to answer the day’s question as well as review, and respond to, the answers other members provided for the previous days questions. We will then meet via video-conference on June 27 at 3:00.
If you’re not already a member of our web bulletin board space email me at ayosco@lapl.org. I will send you the details you need to know to sign yourself up.
Note: if you plan to join the video-conference you’ll need to send an email to ayosco@lapl.org so I can get the conference link to you.
