05 July 2023

Saturday July 8, 2023 Reading

Meeting Time will be at 4:30-5:30 PM CT

Place: Mineral Point Hotel - 121 Commerce St (https://www.mineralpointhotel.com/)

 

 

 

Don't have a copy of the book?

Below is a link to an online version

for laptop or smartphone:


https://www.finwake.com/ 

 

 Or just come to listen!

 

If any questions, please respond to this post or contact

Joel Gosse at 1-608-553-0574, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

11 April 2019

April 14, 2019 Reading



Meeting time will be at 4:30-6 PM. 

Cafe 43 Coffeehouse, 43 High Street, Mineral Point, Wisconsin.


INVOCATION POEM:  






Currently at Book II, Chapter 1  (Page 222).


ADJOURNMENT POEM:  

William Butler Yeats: Easter 1916


If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

14 January 2019

Sunday, January 20, 2019 Reading

Meeting time will be at 4:30-6 PM. 

L & L Public House, 52 High Street

Guinness, Boddingtons, and Smithwicks  - the new Trinity?





Currently at Book One, Chapter 8 (Page 214).


ADJOURNMENT POEM:  

Harlem, Langston Hughes



If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

03 December 2018

Sunday, December 9 Reading of James Joyce's "The Dead"

In observance of the coming holidays/winter solstice, the Finnegans Wake Reading Group will hold a special reading of the short story, "The Dead," at Cafe 43, 43 High Street, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on Sunday, December 9, 2018, beginning at 4:30 PM.

***please bring cash if purchasing drinks***

Taking place during a Christmas dinner in Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, "The Dead" is the last story in James Joyce's collection of short stories, Dubliners. Many consider this short story one of the finest short stories written in the English language.  


                                       (Scene from John Huston's 1987 film 'The Dead')


If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

13 November 2018

Sunday, November 18, 2018 Reading

To be held at Cafe 43, 43 High Street, 4:30 PM.


***please bring cash for beer/wine***



INVOCATION POEM:  Preludes, T.S.Eliot


Currently at Book One, Chapter 8 (Page 204).


ADJOURNMENT POEM:  The Day John Kennedy Died, Lou Reed



If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

01 August 2018

Saturday, August 4 Reading


To be held at the L&L Public House, 58 High Street, 4:30 PM.



Currently at Book One, Chapter 8 (Page 196).


             Anna Livia monument, Croppies Memorial Park, Dublin, Ireland



ADJOURNMENT POEM:  His Fare-well to Sack, Robert Herrick



If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457, or kbetzgosse1@mac.com.

14 July 2018

Sunday, July 15 Reading

To be held at Brewery Creek Brewpub & Inn, 23 Commerce Street, Mineral Point, 4:00 PM CDT:



Currently at Bk 1, Ch7, page 182.

If any questions, please respond to this post or contact Joel Gosse 
at 1-608-987-0457.