July 2013 Reading Challenge (Zelda Fitzgerald)

[Jennie]

Summer Reading Club starts July 1st for Adults and Children. This year, the final celebration event for the CCLD Adult SRC will be a performance of “I am Zelda”, a one-woman original play (August 12, 7PM at CCLD Central Library). Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is often known as the insane flapper wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby". However, she was more than just a beautiful wife. Rita Parisi, in her one-woman original play, will pay tribute to an often misunderstood woman; a woman who was also a mother, an accomplished dancer, an exhibited artist and a published writer in her own right.

This month we challenge you to read something related to Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. For fiction lovers, a novel was released at the end of March called “Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” by Therese Anne Fowler. Zelda Fitzgerald herself has also written fiction. Her novel “Save me the Waltz” is available from the library as well as a couple of story collections. For non-fiction lovers, Zelda, a biography by Nancy Milford is available at many of the local libraries.

[Dee]

Read the Mitford book and Save Me the Waltz years ago, came away with the feeling (validated by my first marriage) that being married to a writer is hard:)