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Right. I think we can probably up the frequency of discussions to one a month.
March (to start mid-month-ish): 911 by Noam Chomsky
April (ditto): tbc, but perhaps M by Peter Robb
... both these threads can roam.
Is that OK? I should probably add that I am reading A Canticle for Leibowitz at the moment, with a view to starting a thread on it & other post-apocalyptic fictions in the not-too-distant future (it reminds me of Mamet's Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources - with the obvious difference being that it is actually readable). I am also on for a post-as-you-go reading of Ulysses.
I've been trying to think of ways to remake the forum (with an eye to the upcoming evolution of the board), and I think that collaborative reading projects like this are definitely a way forward. We could, perhaps, have threads where people read connected books - that might help boost discussion a bit. So, for example, if we're going to read M, someone might read a bit of Vasari or the life of Benevenuto Cellini, someone could read some art history, someone else could look up stuff on biographies. This way, we could have more of the kind of information flow which has enriched the Iliad discussions
Posting 'as you go' threads should also throw up a number of interesting possibilities (as opposed to threads where one posts when one has completed a book and has a more 'finished' impression of it). It should, hopefully, make the forum much more vital.
I see these two ideas operating in tandem with the current thread types - reviews, recommendations, author discussions, Book Club and Notes and Queries, threads on issues relating to books and genres, and so on. I think the forum could have a real depth to it, which is a little lacking at the moment.
Oh - forgot the sagas. Definitely going to read a saga. Anyone esle want to do this? |
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