A Tale of Two Cities, Reading Schedule

[Zulfiya]

Work in Progress. Will post ASAP. How about Sunday 17 as a start day?

[Lynnm]

Sounds good to me....

[Deborah, Moderator]

I'm bummed that I won't have time to read this one. It's one of my favorites

[Mary Lou]

Oh my gosh -- this group has a whole Dickens sub-group?? I'm in heaven. :-)

[Deborah, Moderator]

Marion wrote: "Oh my gosh -- this group has a whole Dickens sub-group?? I'm in heaven. :-)"

Yes it does. The group has been reading them in order of publication.

[Hedi]

17th sounds great! Then I will not have too much to catch up to in June. My current working hours are absolutely crazy - even during the weekend. I have not read a book in weeks. :-(

[Pip]

17th is good for me too :-)

[Frances, Moderator]

Works for me. This is another new Dickens for me so looking forward to it.

[Robin P, Moderator]

I'm in

[Zulfiya]

Drum roll, please!

This is the schedule for our upcoming novel and its discussion.

As agreed earlier, we shall start on May 17. It sounds like a good day to start reading another novel by Dickens. What is more, I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. After this novel, we will have only three more novels to plough though and "Ta-da!" The mission will be accomplished!

[Zulfiya]

05/17 - Book I (Chapters I-VI)
05/24 - Book II (Chapters I-VI)
05/31 - Book II (Chapters VII-XII)
06/07 - Book II (Chapters XIII-XVIII)
06/14 - Book II (Chapters XIX - XXIV)
06/21 - Book III (Chapters I-VI)
06/28 - Book III (Chapters VII-X)
07/05 - Book III (Chapters XI-XV)


And that is it - less then two months for this sweet little thing, and we will be ready to tackle another big novel by Dickens. That means that in 2016 the mission will be accomplished!


By the way, if anyone has an actual paper copy, please make sure that I have not segmented the book into too big pieces. I have based my schedule on an e-copy from my OneClickDigital download, and the pages should be roughly similar to the paper edition, but I cannot guarantee it. if you have a chance to see whether weekly selections exceed 50 pages per week (our usual load), please let me know.


Charge your reading batteries and enjoy long summer days ... if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. Dear Southern Hemispherees (excuse my neologism), I hope this novel will comfort you during your long winter nights :-)

[Anne]

I have a hardcover copy, and all but the first section is less than or equal to 50 pages. The first section came out to 58 pages, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

[Zulfiya]

Thank you, Ann!

[Zulfiya]

I thought it would contain more pages than others, but I did not see any point in splitting book I into two weeks.

Thank you, again. You are awesome!

[Laura]

I'm in. A great book where knitting plays a role, you can't beat that. I have not read this since high school and that is more years than I care to remember.

[Renee]

Booyah! Can't wait to read this again! I did a fun little trilogy the last time with The Scarlet Pimpernel and Scaramouche. They were more swashbuckling adventure stories set during the French Revolution, but so much fun to read. If anyone is interested in doing one/both as a lighthearted buddy read I'd be up for it. :D

[Pip]

I've read (most of) the Scarlet Pimpernel, but not Scaramouche. I'd do the Fandango with you!

[Renee]

Fabulous! Since ToTC is an 8 week read, we could do one book May/June and the other June/July. ???

[Bonnie]

July/August?