Don Quixote - February 15-21: B2 C2-14

[Brian, co-moderator]

Discussion thread with no discussion for Week 7. Starting to get the feeling no one is reading the book we all voted for ;)

[Brandon]

I actually am still reading it. I’ve just gotten behind! I’m a teacher and we just had our students come back to in person learning so I’ve been exhausted.

[Brian, co-moderator]

I'm a little behind myself! All good. Just happy to know there are people here with me!

[Brandon]

I actually really really love the book. Way more than I thought I would. What did you ever decide with the translation Brian? I know you were testing out a couple of them.

[Brandon]

It is funny to me that the first handful of chapters in part 2 is just Cervantes filling in plot holes that from the first part.

I continue to love the bromance between Sancho and the Don. I can’t even begin to say how many relationships I have seen like this in real life. Quixote always correcting Sancho never fails to make me chuckle. Every time I think Sancho is onto the Don being crazy he immediately falls back into the plan that Quixote has for them.

[[deleted user]]

Don Quixote never fails to amuse me. It seems modern! I love how Don Quixote is a book in Quixote's universe as well, so the whole 'history' is to be taken as tounge-in-cheek. Amusing, how the Don and Sancho would see their own adventures written.

[Brandon]

Darshana I 100% agree. It is so funny and weird how meta it gets. You expect a book that is considered one of the earliest novels to be stuffy but Cervantes is anything but stuffy!

[Tina]

I'm also way behind. I am also a teacher and tutor. . I am enjoying it and reading when I can but the 10-25 min I get in before falling asleep isn't enough to keep up.

[Brian, co-moderator]

We are considering stepping back, shortening the weekly reads, and taking an extra month or two with this one. What do you all think? Where are you in the book? We'll select a sensible new schedule so that you're caught up, and shrink the weekly reading from ~75 pages to something like 50.

Thoughts?

[Brandon]

I am 100% behind that idea Brian. It’s a tough schedule to keep up with.

[Linda_G]

Does this change only Don Quixote or does it affect the monthly read?

There has only been one suggestion for the March read

[[deleted user]]

I agree too. I'm in the schedule (Ch - 14) but it will not do hurrying through Don Quixote.

[Tina]

It would be great if we could slow the pace a bit! I'm still waaaaay back in Part 1.

[Cosmic]

I am at chapter 16 but I am in no hurry. I am enjoying the quest. I am listening to the book so I don't know what page i am on. I have about 32 more hours to go...so no worries that I am going to finish anytime soon...lol Try to be more active...sorry.