I'm thinking about requesting a few days off of work for this adventure. Hey Doris...can you write me a letter excising my absence?
I will also need a letter of excuse for coordinating the predictions game.
I'm thinking about requesting a few days off of work for this adventure. Hey Doris...can you write me a letter excising my absence?
I like this idea, maybe if we read a quarter of the book a week and discussed it at the end of each week? And then spend a fifth week discussing the book as a whole, and themes. This way people who can't be online as regularly have time to discuss too. I'm proposing such an awkward way of measuring the book each week (quarters), because from what I gather, this book doesn't have chapters, only entries of varying sizes, so trying to measure it according to that and still be done by the end of the month could be tricky. Correct me if I'm wrong/you have a better method, as this one is obviously quite messy.
That sounds like a good plan. Obviously late, but hey---need to go get a copy of The Color Purple now...
Oh dear - I'm late to the party, too!
I have huge project going on with a deadline on the 3rd...how long is a quarter of the book?
The paperback (2003 edition) is 300 pages. So, one quarter of the book would be 75 pages.
Good luck with your project.
BTW, I used to be Larkin. As of today, Wednesday, I am skylark.
Thank you
Glad to hear the book is short - I'm a fast reader so 300 pages is not too much even just for one night. I read 450 pages of Barchester Towers just last night before bed#Brag
ETA I like your new name!
ETA Don't know where I got the idea that the book was about 1500 pages...maybe because the movie was pretty long?
Well worth it, wasn't it?"Barchester Towers" - along with "The Warden" & "The Last Chronicle of Barset" - is among my Absolute Favourite books ever. If you can, you should get hold of the '80s BBC series (if you haven't already seen it, of course.) You'll enjoy it.
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Ooh I have not! I will try my best to find it
I haven't read the other two, but I'm going to - I'm going through a Trollope phase right now![]()
Thank you
Glad to hear the book is short - I'm a fast reader so 300 pages is not too much even just for one night. I read 450 pages of Barchester Towers just last night before bed#Brag
ETA I like your new name!
ETA Don't know where I got the idea that the book was about 1500 pages...maybe because the movie was pretty long?
Thank you. Skylark feels more like me, somehow. And yes, it was a long movie, thank goodness Spielberg did it.
I got my copy of the book from the library today; hardback is even fewer pages, also there's space between many chapters. It seems I remember that it's one I liked to take some space between while reading, letting myself mull over things. That's just me, though. Either way, if you're a fast reader, you're not going to have an issue at all.
Although I do remember that at first I was slowed down by the syntax/dialect. In fact, maybe for half the book. By the time I finished the book and started another, I recall I had to get used to a more "mainstream" style of writing again. It seems that I'd begun to internalize the rhythm of the sentences of The Color Purple. Alice Walker has said that her characters came to her and spoke to her that way; she had to be very quiet in order to listen.
I hope no one feels this post is a spoiler. It isn't, to me, but let me know if it is to anyone else.
Well, I have to start reading now. It is November...
I love discussing books, so just throwing that idea out there!
I'm so glad we are honoring Olympia this way!