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Book Club Discussion for September 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

You had another incredible reading month in July, and it would be lovely to hear about the books you're enjoying this month.

Your comments in these Book Club Discussion threads continue to reveal your deep love of great literature, and we would love to hear about how your reading is treating you at the moment.

So, tell us what your September is looking like.

What are you reading at the moment?

Let us know anything that's on your mind, your literary loves, and anything you wish to share or sharpen your thoughts about.

  • Author details

  • Seasonal reads

  • Areas to explore

  • Your current Big Read

  • Complementary art forms

  • Questions about literature

  • Favourite lines and passages

  • Things you're finding difficult

  • Rewarding literary rabbit holes

  • Musings, notes, and marginalia

  • Things you want to recommend

  • Resonant character descriptions

  • General life updates (we're interested)

This is the place to put anything bookish you like, and get other readers weighing in on your thoughts!

Our wonderful Book Club community continues to be a literary oasis thanks to your thoughtful appreciations of the Great Books.

Reading through the recent book discussion threads, one can see what a truly special group of literature lovers we have here:

So thank you so much for being a part of the family, and I hope your month is filled with exciting bookish adventures.

Happy reading!

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Michael Plant

Ben, I’m not clear on when we will actually begin discussion of Dante’s Inferno. Kindly let me know. I’m new here and haven’t quite caught the thread of how the logistics all work. Thanks. Michael

Carol Keller

I finished Infinite Jest on Friday. As with any book completion, I let my thoughts and feelings roll around a couple days before sitting down to record them. I have started and erased more words than usual with this one. "I loved it and it's a great book" accurately sums up how I feel, yet seems ridiculously simplistic in the face of the beautiful complexity of IJ. It was an all consuming book. I always read several books at once, but since July this is my one and only. I am so proud of finishing it and look forward to a chronological reread.

Rebeca Portela

I am considering re-reading “One hundred Years Of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A magic realism master piece. I would love to read this book with this club and listen to Benjamin’s lectures on it. It is one of my favorite books and reading it in English is a totally different experience from its original language.

David Stone

I seem to have missed the discussion lectures on Song of Solomon. Were they posted? All I see is the "How to Read" lecture.

Vida
>>149904199

Hi David. The first discussion is this coming Sunday. You did not miss anything.

Sally

Enjoying "Song of Solomon"! Did not think I could enjoy Toni Morrison after "Beloved" but that was a very long time ago! Really love SOS!!!

Allison Trago

I’m late to the game this month, but I’m currently reading The Decameron, which is pairing really well with Dante’s Inferno. Really enjoying all the history lessons from both! :)

Anna

Hello everyone, I'm returning to this awesome group after leaving it in 2023 due to financial reasons. I'm so excited for Dante's Inferno. This is my second attempt at reading it. My first attempt was in college many years ago.

Guillermo Medina

Hello everyone! Hello Benjamin! Greetings from Los Angeles! This is my first post. I finally joined the club a few weeks ago after months of binging all of Benjamin’s YouTube videos and Spotify podcasts. Following Ben’s recommendation, I read Don Quixote and The Count of Monte Cristo earlier this year. Loved both! I’m currently wrapping up Jane Eyre (I’m totally in love with Jane) and listening to the corresponding lectures. I’m also reading a bit of Epictetus or Montaigne’s essays every morning with my coffee. And some Emily Dickinson poems before bed. To keep my bilingual brain active, I’m also reading The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano in its original Spanish language version, and I’m still slogging through The Tale of Genji (don’t know if I like it yet) while on the Peloton every other day. I’m planning on rereading Invisible Man and can’t wait to start Song of Solomon. My goal is to follow the 2025 lectures in real time.

Karen Nielsen

Hello, everyone! Just joined today. I've been reading contemporary fiction for a while, including James by Percival Everett, God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and Pet, Remote Sympathy, The Wish Child, and The Axeman's Carnival all by Catherine Chidgey. I would recommend all of them. Now I am starting a Shakespeare marathon, so am really looking forward to checking out all the book club resources!

Larry D. Marshall

Hee..hee. I'm new here and not all that bright. I've been accessing everything by going to the "content" post, thinking this was a list of the files on the site. I was disappointed to find that the "Book Club Discussions" ended in 2022. Good to know that they still exist and I will start participating. I almost feel as though I should start writing in the September discussion because I read Dante's Inferno AND Morrison's Song of Solomon in September, before joining this group. Oh well, I'll catch the McEvoy train soon. Right now I'm reading five books, which is my norm. Rather than generating TBRs that are never achieved, I use a "slot" method of choosing what books I read. Slot 1: Shakespeare Slot 2: Proust Slot 3: (right now) Clarissa Slots 4&5: whatever I feel like, pulled from my library. Slot 1: Shakespeare - I read King Lear and Year of the Lear (Shapiro) last month but right now I'm reading Comedy of Errors. It's not Lear, that's for sure and Shakespeare may have jumped the shark when it comes to farce with this one. Slot 2: Proust - I started Swann's Way in July. I did it more as a "gotta do" than a true desire to read it. But I listened to Ben telling me to read it slowly so I did. And the fact of the matter was that I got hooked, hard. So much so, in fact, that the music of his prose sort of drowned out my concern about the content (grin). His prose and my brain get along really well but he can easily send me off into dreams and memories. You'd think that would be a good thing but I had to stop (halfway through the book) and start over, telling myself to pay attention. But Ben's right, rereading is where its at. I'm enjoying Proust so much that it's unlikely that I'll ever stop reading it. I'm now halfway through Budding Grove while also rereading Swann's way AND trying to improve my French by reading it, very slowly, in French, or rather spending a lot of time comparing French to English versions. So....in the end, a lot of my reading time is spent with Proust. I'm also reading Clarissa and, surprisingly, I really like it. The epistolary nature really sucked me in and, while it's not "guy" literature, it's fun. For my other two slots, I'm following VicTober2024 organized by booktubers. I'm reading their group read, The Doctor's Wife by Mary Braddon and I just started Jude the Obscure this morning. Neither of those will take long so my hope is that I'll get through Woodlanders before the month is over. So...right now I don't have a "big read" unless Proust qualifies. The Victober crowd has gotten me interested in Dombey and Son so maybe that'll be my next big book. Then again, a reread of War and Peace pops up in my brain regularly, with lots of Proustian memories of Tolstoy's magic.

Larry D. Marshall
>>151292065

I second your recommendation of James. Last month I read Huck Finn, followed by James and that was fun.