Tentative Schedule - comments???

[NancyJ, Moderator]

Here is the tentative schedule. Is this too aggressive? I know some people want to read a LOT of books before the PBS shows airs in the Fall. But others might prefer a more relaxed schedule of new reads, or to just skip every other read. In any event, ALL the discussions will remain open as long as we're here, so if you're rea ding a book 4 weeks after the start date, you probably won't be alone.

Feedback please?


JUNE 3 PM update- Tentative Schedule

Group Reads

June 1 - June 30 (threads will remain open for comments afterward, so read at your own pace). Selected: 1984 and Looking for Alaska

June 2 nominations: June 15 book was selected (a clear winner), and the rest were put into a poll.

June 3-7 Poll: To determine the July 1 book

June 8 Announce the July winner

June 15 - Group Read: A Prayer for Owen Meany (Dates June 15- Aug 1 since it's somewhat long)

July 1 - New Group Read starts

July 15 - New Group Read or SKIP?

August - A Long book (2+ months to read), and a short book

Sept - Include a focused read (from a category identified by the show

Oct 1- Include a scary book

[Linda]

My $.02......if we do two books each month, maybe the "chucker", the long book, could be July 1-30, and with one smaller book July 1-15 and another July 15-30. I don't know that I could do "War and Peace" in two weeks, even in summer. Life gets in the way

[Roseanne]

Personally I intend to go at my own pace. I don’t think it is realistic for me to think I will read all on the schedule. Especially when we all haven’t read all the same ones. Of the 29 I have already read I only intend to reread maybe 2. Yes I want to read them all but I don’t expect that to happen by the end of the summer.

As for War and Peace, I loved it and spent many nights staying up late reading it and it still took me 3 months to read.

My advice - pace yourself, enjoy the journey.

[KP]

Thank you for doing this. Facebook is not good for discussions. This is much better. How about 6 or 8 weeks for the big books. I need the motivation of a group to read War and peace, don Quixote, or count of monte cristo.

[KP]

Roseanne wrote: "Personally I intend to go at my own pace. I don’t think it is realistic for me to think I will read all on the schedule. Especially when we all haven’t read all the same ones. Of the 29 I have alre..."

Ok maybe I’ll wait until winter to start war and peace.

[Colleen]

Roseanne wrote: "Personally I intend to go at my own pace. I don’t think it is realistic for me to think I will read all on the schedule. Especially when we all haven’t read all the same ones. Of the 29 I have alre..."

Good advice,....3 months is not too much to ask out of one's life for a book, correct?

[Tasha]

I do it all the time! ;)

[Colleen]

Tasha wrote: "I do it all the time! ;)"

lol, yikes,

[Linda]

Kgrinch wrote: "Thank you for doing this. Facebook is not good for discussions. This is much better. How about 6 or 8 weeks for the big books. I need the motivation of a group to read War and peace, don Quixote, o..."

I agree. Since work often requires that I read more than one thing at a time, and I know War and Peace has a long list of characters, and it's 1000 pages, I'd need at least 5 or 6 weeks with it. I'd read it whenever. My f2f book club tends to read one very long one for August-September, since we don't meet in August, to give the non-native speakers extra time with a text that's a bit longer.

[NancyJ, Moderator]

Kgrinch wrote: "Thank you for doing this. Facebook is not good for discussions. This is much better. How about 6 or 8 weeks for the big books. I need the motivation of a group to read War and peace, don Quixote, o..."

Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote:

War and Peace has a long list of characters, and it's 1000 pages, I'd need at least 5 or 6 weeks with it.
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Thank you both for the feedback!

[Paula]

NancyJ wrote: "Here is the tentative schedule. Is this too aggressive? I know some people want to read a LOT of books before the PBS shows airs in the Fall. But others might prefer a more relaxed schedule of new ..."

I've read over 50 of the books on the list so, depending on which book(s) we select, I may be sitting out any I've read and don't intend to re-read. I always have at least three books on my list along with my daily Bible and devotional reading and that means I'm pretty busy with my bookworm habit. That's not to say I won't be watching the discussions. I enjoy reading what other people have to say about literature. Happy reading, Everyone.