‘Arcadian’ Delights - A Report ❤️

Booksters on a Roll! | ‘Arcadian’ Delights 

The Arcadia Book Club was started as an extension of the Department Club, Arcadia, Lady Doak College, Madurai.

Every month the members of the Club choose a book and review it.

Their last past ‘Friday Book Review’ featured this blogger reviewing The Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattanaik.  Since Prof. Sharon, the organiser of the event, had apprised me earlier on that, their students are quite well acquainted with the book, I shifted my focus to the concept of focalisation and to the various rewarding readerly-perspectives to the book.

this blogger @ the Arcadian Conclave for Booksters!

Fifty-plus students (and quite a few faculty members) had conclaved on the G-Meet platform for this virtual Book Meet, and there were quite a few intriguing questions from the faculty and students alike.

Prof. Sharon for her part said that, although she hadn’t that great a regard for Shilavati because of her sly manoeuvres, ‘your perspectives on Shilavati have made her quite redeeming to us’, she opined.

Well, on a personal note, almost every other character in the novel has these shades of grey in them! And that’s something that revs up and thereby redeems this novel for the reader!

Coming back to Arcadia Book Club,

There are three meets, one virtual, and two in-person meets.

The Club also has an Instagram page and they are also in the process of developing a blog exclusively for their Club as well!

For the coming month, the Arcadians are planning on reading Ponniyin Selvan since the movie is also coming out soon. They also plan to compare the book with the movie version.

Up Up LDC! Great going, Prof. Sharon & Team!

On an extended note,

Plans are afoot to have a series of collaborative Book Reading Events, where institutions like MCC, American, LDC, Fatima, MTN, Thiagarajar, Stella Maris, WCC, QMC, et al – to name a few – could come together and be a part of this great grand exercise of promoting reading amongst our youngsters!

This could then become a regular feature -like a biannual or an annual book fest!

The Avid Booksters’ Collective (ABC...) we’ve tentatively christened this initiative! 😍

We also hope to have quite a few book releases on such occasions... written by some of the booksters (faculty and students alike).

With inputs from Prof. Sharon, LDC