Last month the reading group met at the library to discuss Huxley's Brave New World. We looked mainly at the nature of the dystopia and its dismal claims about human nature, and at the tilt between freedom (the grounds for meaning) and soma-based comfort (empty of purpose), though we also touched on the flavor of the borrowings from Shakespeare. We wondered about the sequel, and what life on the islands was like.
Huxley was, in hindsight, a most regrettable digression from our winter focus on women writers. We're still figuring out what to read this month to make up for it--perhaps a Flannery O'Connor story? Send in suggestions, especially if you live around Spokane and would be able to join us in the library the last Saturday of the month, 4pm.
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