Posted by Sterling on 20/10/2011, 15:53:46, in reply to "Draft Schedule"
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This sounds fine to me, Steven. Thanks for all your hard (and, as always, excellent) work.
--Previous Message--
: Here's a really quick draft of a schedule for 2012,
: assuming everyone is in agreement with my previous
: message:
:
: Jan - The Savage Detectives
: Feb - The Mystery of Edwin Drood & The Sense of an
: Ending
: Mar - Room
: Apr - Nothing Like the Sun & A Dead Man in
: Deptford
: May - C
: Jun - Wolf Hall
: Jul - Red Harvest & Farewell My Lovely
: Aug - A Mind at Peace
: Sep - The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
: Oct - The Prague Cemetery
: Nov - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
: Dec - The Tunnel & Recollections of Things to Come
:
: Here is the rationale, where there is one:
:
: Jan - Selfish reasons on my part. I belong to another
: reading group that is doing Bolaņo's novel 2666 in
: March, so I wanted to read The Savage Detectives
: first. This should also be an easy book for everyone
: to find.
:
: Feb - February 7 is the date of Dickens' bicentennial,
: so there is likely to be some hoopla that month.
:
: Apr - Shakespeare was born and died in April, so it
: seemed as good a month as any.
:
: Jun - Selfish again. That other reading group is doing
: Wolf Hall in June. It will be interesting to see how
: it works out to read the same book for two groups at
: the same time. Perhaps I can cross-pollinate the
: discussions.
:
: Jul - Mysteries seem to be considered the best summer
: reading.
:
: Aug - Just from looking at the preview pages on Amazon
: it appears that A Mind at Peace begins in August.
:
: Oct - The Prague Cemetery seems like an appropriate
: book for the Halloween season.
:
: Nov - The Thousand Autumns in autumn, of course.
:
: Dec - To give Joffre plenty of time to work on his
: Spanish. Also, Recollections is $30 new, so some of us
: may want extra time to scout out a more affordable
: used copy.
:
: For those months not mentioned above I just tried to
: space out the longer works and double selections, not
: have similar works back to back.
:
: Again, this is just a draft, feel free to comment and
: suggest changes.
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