Embassytown Discussion: Preparing for Embassytown: welcome

[Ian]

Hi, Nataliya, I know there's no formal reading schedule, but would you mind listing a notional schedule for what you have in mind?

I'm trying to "catch up", but I'm not sure where everybody else is up to.

I'm up to page 107.

Are you more or less thinking 100 pages a week?

[Nataliya]

I'm just posting them as I read the book. I figured whichever pace you'd like to take - the threads will be there (unless you read faster than I reread, in which case, well...) I'm trying to go by the parts of the book determined by CM rather than number of pages (I combined the parts for the latest thread because none of them felt like it could stand on its own for the discussion purposes).

By the end of this week, I plan to have the threads for the most of the book if not the entire book up - this is my vacation week, and I'm taking advantage of all this freedom on my 'stay-cation'.

Basically, I'm not stringent timeline-wise, so just because a thread is up does not mean I expect people to have read this far already.

[Ian]

Thanks, I posted my threads up in exactly the same way, but there tended to be times of greater activity around when people were coinciding in their reading.

I'd like to finish my read by the end of next week at the latest.

[Nataliya]

Discussion for Parts 4 and 5 is up! (Read at your own pace, but it's there if you have gotten that far already)

[Cecily]

Just a thought, but I think it might be useful to have a topic for general discussion of the book. There are couple of things I want to raise, but they don't really relate to any specific section.

[Nataliya]

Cecily wrote: "Just a thought, but I think it might be useful to have a topic for general discussion of the book. There are couple of things I want to raise, but they don't really relate to any specific section."

You ask and you shall receive:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Nataliya]

The discussion for Part 5: New Kings is up:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Nataliya]

And also posted now is the discussion for Part 7: The Languageless, my absolute favorite part of this entire book.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Nataliya]

Finally, the thread for the last 2 parts of this book is up.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Traveller]

To repeat what I said on the Section 7 thread:

Before I forget to do it later, I wanted to thank you greatly for this wonderful discussion, Nataliya! It's hopefully not over yet, since there are still a few things I'd like to comment on, but in the meantime, I'd like to say a big thank you for all of us, participants and lurkers alike.

It's really been great!

And thanks to all of you who participated thus far to make this discussion a wonderful and enriching experience. :)