Danksy \u2019n liefde vir boeke en \u2019n hunkering om meer te weet, gedy die Petrusburg-leeskring al 36 jaar in di\u00e9 klein dorpie aan die soom van die N8-roete tussen Kimberley en Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die lede bespreek nie net boeke en skrywers nie; hulle gaan op spooktoere in Kimberley of woon toneelstukke op die Vrystaat Kunstefees of die gespreksessies by die Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkundige Museum en Navorsingsentrum (Naln) in Bloemfontein by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n keer het hulle ook die plaas Janee buite Koffiefontein besoek waar die bekroonde skrywer Etienne Leroux gebly het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elke byeenkoms rondom \u2019n teepot en sny koek is \u2019n lewendige gesprek waarin menings en sienswyses behoorlik gelug word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van die skrywers wat die leeskring al toegespreek het, is Louis Bothma, Francois Smith, Fanie Viljoen, Irma Joubert, George Weideman en Jaco Jacobs. Toe Bothma oor veldslae van die Anglo Boere-oorlog (ABO) gepraat het (waarvan baie in die omgewing plaasgevind het), is hul mans ook genooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anel Grobbelaar, voorsitter, s\u00ea hulle hou tien byeenkomste per jaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cElke lid kry \u2019n beurt om \u2019n boek van haar keuse te bespreek. Marianne Myburgh het byvoorbeeld met haar spreekbeurt vir ons aan \u2019n paar Afrika-skrywers voorgestel. Sy het verskillende boeke gebring en \u2019n bietjie van elke boek vertel. Op di\u00e9 wyse het ons wonderlike skrywers uit Ghana, Kenia en Zimbabwe ontdek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myburgh is een van die eerste lede van die leeskring wat in 1986 deur die destydse dorpsbibliotekaresse gestig is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel aanvanklik was byeenkomste streng formeel en is met skriflesing en gebed geopen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar was \u2019n voorsitter, sekretaresse en \u2019n tesourier, en almal het op rye stoele gesit. Deesdae vergader ons in \u2019n restaurant of by iemand se huis. Die gesprekke is lewendig. Dit is lekker, want as almal saamstem oor \u2019n boek is dit nie lekker om te bespreek nie. Ons word uit ons gemaksone geruk want ons moet boeke uit die ander lede se sienswyses interpreteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is wonderlik as deskundiges en skrywers met ons oor die agtergrond en die boek-in-wording gesels. Naln se kundiges het aanvank\u00adlik gehelp met keuses van boeke in samewer\u00adking met die distrik se biblioteekdienste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnel versamel die ongelooflikste boeke by boekwinkels en kunstefeeste waar sy boeke kies wat ons nooit sou lees nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Maart gaan die groep na Naln waar Leana Lategan, voormalige hoofvakkundige beampte, The Promise <\/span>van Damon Galgut gaan bespreek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSy is \u2019n ingeligte kenner, wat heerlike staaltjies vertel en agtergrond verskaf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minnie Griessel (81), wat 38 jaar lank \u2019n onderwyser was, geniet haar aftrede in die dorp waar sy skoolgegaan het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk lees my vrek. As ek \u2019n boek wil h\u00ea, koop ek dit. 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