The Signature of All Things December 2014 Read

[Irene]

Reading Schedule
Part One-The Tree of Fevers- 12/7/2014
Part Two-The Plum of White Acre- 12/14/2014
Part Three-The Disturbance of Messages-12/21/2014
Part Four-The Consequence of Missions- 12/28/2014
Part Five- The Curator of Mosses- 1/4/2015
Happy Reading:)

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Excellent Irene. Who will be joining us on this read for December?

[Irene]

I plan to read along.

[Irene]

Sheila wrote: "Excellent Irene. Who will be joining us on this read for December?"

Thank you

[Nell]

I will join the December read. This one's been in my TBR for months.

[Sibaprasad]

I shall try and start reading the book soon.

[Nina]

I'll try keep up with the schedule, but we will see how it goes. I have maybe planed too many book for december :s

[Sibaprasad]

It depends on the availability of the book.

[Bookworm Adventure Girl]

I hope to read along.

[Sibaprasad]

December is here. I am afraid I won't be able to finish it in December. The book is yet to come.

[Irene]

Can we expand the time line?

[Irene]

Are you waiting for the book from the library?

[Rebecca]

I would like to be in on this one.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Sibaprasad, we will be reading this book all month, into the first week of January, so when your copy comes you are welcome to join in on the discussion at any time! :-)

[Nell]

Irene wrote: "Can we expand the time line?"

How about separating the discussion topics into the sections - a different thread for each Part. Then readers can join in as they finish each part.

Plan to start reading next weekend.

[Irene]

Sounds good, will do.

[Laura]

I had started this book before it was announced and I just finished reading it - a bit ahead of this schedule. I'd like to join in but may have some trouble remembering exactly what happened in each Part. I borrowed the ebook from the library so can't easily flip back. But I'll take you cues and see if I can contribute.

You guys are in for a good read, enjoy yourselves.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

I just started reading last night. I like the writing style, so I think I am going to enjoy this one. :-)

[Amy]

I'm going to look for a copy ASAP. Looks like a good read :)

[Irene]

It's engaging. The story line is very interesting.

[Rebecca]

I just got my book tonight. I will start it tonight. Good to know Sheila and Irene.

[Irene]

I created a discussion thread under the title of the section. If you are ready to discuss go there.

[Daniale]

Woo hoo! Just picked it up from the library! Can't wait to dive in and join the discussion!

[Irene]

Daniale wrote: "Woo hoo! Just picked it up from the library! Can't wait to dive in and join the discussion!"

Welcome all

[Irene]

Irene wrote: "I created a discussion thread under the title of the section. If you are ready to discuss go there."

I can't find the threads for parts 3 thru 5. I finished part 3 and was going to post thoughts before moving on.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Irene, it looks like Irene only has separate threads up for parts 1 and 2 so far. (sorry, I'm a little behind, I've been out of town this week). I would guess a thread for part 3 will be going up soon.

[Irene]

Thanks, I thought I had recalled seeing threads for all five parts at one point. Maybe I was dreaming it.

[Irene]

I'll put it up. Wow, you read fast.

[Irene]

It's up. LOL

[Irene]

I started looking at the drawing before each section. It looks like the author carefully chose sketches of plants discussed in each section, but it also represents the human sexual parts as per Alma. For example, section 2, looks like development and discovery of female parts, and section 4 looks like the male parts. I can't make out the other sections. What do you think?

[Rebecca]

I am just finishing up section 2. This book is very confusing to me. I have no idea what the author intended. I will post by comments tonight for section 2.
Irene so much of this book was spent on Alma and her sexuality to the point of excess. I really dont know what the author intended only to add some eroticism to her book? This book has been tough for me to want to finish.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Irene wrote: "I started looking at the drawing before each section. It looks like the author carefully chose sketches of plants discussed in each section, but it also represents the human sexual parts as per ..."

I think anyone can 'interpret' anything into any picture, as in the Rorschach inkblot test. If you wanted to think sexual, you can look at just about any picture, and find something you can say is sexual about it. I think this all goes along with the title of the book, and with some 'believing' that a plants shape told you what it was good for.

Rebecca, this book is a bit confusing to me too. I'm not sure what the author is trying to get across either. The excessive, and sometimes odd, sexuality doesn't seem to fit with the nature of the rest of the story.

[Amy]

I suspect that Alma's sexual drive has some parallel to the plants/ moss in her research. She had the drive to do so, but didn't reproduce for other environmental reasons.

Not sure how all this will come together, but I'm reading onward and hoping that it will :)