YC Reading

Always fancied trying creative writing? Or are you a budding writer looking to develop your skills? Yeovil College is holding an introductory Creative Writing Workshop Event for anyone wishing to develop and explore their writing talent. The workshop will be hosted by For Every Cloud, the local community arts hub and gallery space in Langport, Somerset, which frequently hosts arts workshops and events. It has been funded by Literature Works, the South West literature charity, through their Grassroots Literature Program which awards funding encouraging literary events and activities across the South West. Yeovil College aims to help support and promote community activities wherever possible, and th e Learning Resource Centre at Yeovil College has organised other successful literature and literacy initiatives for the local community, including a popular book club, which also hosts an interactive blog, a Reading Passport evening with two guest authors, and the 6 Book Challenge, pr...

Sam Sadly, I gave up on 'A Farewell to Arms'. I stopped and restarted it many times but just couldn't get in to it. I felt there was little explanation for the modern reader about why the narrator was off to Italy or why an American was in the Italian army.   Maybe if I'd read on, I would have found out but I found the pacing of the writing difficult to deal with. Paragraphs and paragraphs of text describing a single drive where little happens and then months, weeks, days passing in a line or two.   I didn't feel familiar enough or enamoured with the characters enough to deal with a narrative which for me, just didn't seem to flow and I often found myself skimming pages.   I wish I could have got in to this book further. I've read the last couple of chapters and they seem very readable but I just couldn't get to grips with this book at the beginning, my attention waned again and again which is a shame as I suspect the later parts were much s...

We will discuss and bid farewell to.. 'A Farewell to Arms' .     (If you borrowed this book from the Club, please remember to bring it with you in exchange for the penultimate read on our list for this year)         Where: Yeovil College (Quiet Study Area) When:   Tuesday 14th April 2015 Time:   4pm   See you there!