Dear students & readers of this blog,
We are finally in April. And, as you know, it is the month when we celebrate the joy of reading: the existence of the BOOK.
And we want to celebrate with you. That's why we are preparing many interesting activities for you to participate. So PLEASE JOIN US!!! We would be very happy to share our passion for reading with you.
Here's the calendar of activities for the English Department:
Monday 15 to Friday 19 April:
- Exhibition “Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar in covers" at the library corridor.
Monday 15 April:
- English: Talk on Chicago (Aula Exámenes Uned), at 4:45 & 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 16 April:
- Guided visit to the exhibition on Sylvia Plath by it's author, our colleague Elena Rebollo. 5:30 p.m. (in English)
Monday 22 to Friday 26 April:
- Activities with students:
In English, French, German, Italian & Portuguese: Ponle portada a tu libro favorito (Choose a cover for your favourite book)
English: “In Their Own Voice”, poems reading and watching
Tuesday 23 of April:
- Reading flashmob at the Plaza Mayor - 7.30 p.m.
- Bookcrossing: inauguration of our bookcrossing point. Come bring a book you want to swap.
As April 23 is said to be the day when William Shakespeare died, and, as you know, I have a passion for him, allow me to end this post with one of my favourites among his sonnets. Enjoy, and happy month of the book!!!
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the
remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests
and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's
unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters
not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man
ever loved.
Read on!!!
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