Another in what is apparently an enormous fan-fiction of Greek and Roman myths. That I think I was sort of unaware of. And maybe that is because most of them are bad? This one is a throwaway- Atwood seemingly makes little effort to keep the Penelope narrator’s tone consistent… Almost as if each section had been written at different times, and she had not bothered to re-read the earlier sections in order to be consistent.
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Organisation de deux activités à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Séance de jeudi récréatif à la bibliothèque communale de Karaba
- Mise à jour des ordinateurs du Centre Multimédia de Houndé
- Séance de lecture à haute voix à l’école de Lokihoun
- Reading FAVL-produced books in Koho library, Burkina Faso!
- Librarian meeting in Sumbrungu, Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Don de jeu de scrabble au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Immersion à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho
- Organisation d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia