Dickens

[close] So welcome to a Victorian-style Dickens readalong, run by me, Katie from Books and Things. Following on from our reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, we'll be starting reading Bleak House in March 2018. Here's the idea. We read Dickens's Bleak House in a serialised way, just as the Victorians would have done! So, three or four chapters a month, every month for eighteen months until we're finished. We talk about how we're reading here and I then make a monthly video talking about the chapters we've read that month. Here's the schedule. March 2018, chapters 1–4 April 2018, chapters 5–7 May 2018, chapters 8–10 June 2018, chapters 11–13 July 2018, chapters 14–16 August 2018, chapters 17–19 September 2018, chapters 20–22 October 2018, chapters 23–25 November 2018, chapters 26–29 December 2018, chapters 30–32 January 2019, chapters 33–35 February 2019, chapters 36–38 March 2019, chapters 39–42 April 2019, chapters 43–46 May 2019, chapters 47–49 June 2019, chapters 50–53 July 2019, chapters 54–56 August 2019, chapters 57–59 September 2019, chapters 60–67

[close] This is a group for anyone who wants to read the Chunksters (the BIG books like Anna Karenina, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Infinite Jest, A Suitable Boy, In Search of Lost Time, Jerusalem, Middlemarch, Miss Macintosh My Darling, Ulysses (ok, you get the idea...). We are all about making these fun and easier to read in a group format! Plus there are mini-group Chunkster buddy reads for books that members want to get together and read. **Before you join, please be sure to go to our Group Guidelines thread and be sure you understand the rules in this fun group!**

[close] This is a group for discerning readers looking to discover, explore, and critically discuss some of the World’s literature, with a primary emphasis on the great books, short stories and poetry of the early-18th century to the early-20th century. You can expect to find intelligent discussions associated with literary periods and movements; major and minor authors and their works; and potential connections and relationships with other artistic movements and periods (e.g., music, visual arts, architecture, etc.).We encourage participants to bring their intellectual curiosity and a willingness to share their knowledge and engage in critical thinking and discussion. This group is intended to be a safe, comfortable, yet stimulating haven for those looking to learn more and share their love for some of the World’s great literature.

[close] Do you love the stories by Charles Dickens, and anything Victorian? Are you keen to chat about his books, his life, the times or places he lived in, or the authors who were his friends? Why not come and join us? We have regular group reads of his works, side reads and lots of places to discuss our favourite author - or one we would like to know better. "Wot larks!" as Joe Gargery might say. Whatever your reason for joining, if you are interested in Dickens' world, you'll get a warm Dickensian welcome here.