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Book Club Discussion for October 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

You had another incredible reading month in September, 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 October 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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Yoknapatawpha

Read East of Eden for first time in January, mind wide-open. Not a fan of Steinbeck. Political opportunist. Sappy sweet good story "Red Pony" may be what he's remembered for in 200 years, certainly not the miserable Grapes of Wrath or the equally execrable East of Eden

Stephanie Jeannette

I've been away from club reading since East of Eden and missed the group and, of course, Ben. Very tough work schedule the next few weeks but I'll try to drop in to some current lectures and posts. 💕

Emma S.

Has anyone read If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino? I picked it up this weekend and have only read the first few pages. It is very different and very intriguing so far.

Kelly R.

I just finished The Master and Margarita yesterday…I’m still putting all my thoughts together but I can say I went from unsure about it to absolutely loving it. It takes a lot of work to make it rewarding I think, and so I’m glad it was worthwhile. I love the puzzle, and I loved that for once I could just surrender and enjoy magical realism. That alone was worth all the effort. So glad I made it! And it still ties in well with reading Dante right now.

Karen Bird
>>152306804

I read the book back in February and enjoyed it, but I felt that the first few chapters were the best.

Stephen Conroy
>>152414583

I also just wrapped up Master and Margarita. I found the beginning of the book disorientating and the shenanigans of Woland and his posse at the start, were to me, the least interesting part of the book and reminded me of a Marx Brothers movie - some humorous parts, but overall outstaying its welcome. I was much more invested in the Pilate chapters and the book finally picked up with the entrance of the Master. From then I found the book enthralling. I felt the book was very much a product of its time, with Bulgarkov's critique of the corruption of the so called "intelligentsia" and self referential to his treatment by the controlling authorities. It helped me to put down the book for some time to allow me to digest the first half of the book. I feel that it is likely to be more enjoyable as a re-read, now that I understand the overall structure and internal connections. This is not perhaps a book I would have selected myself for enjoyment, but understand its place as an artifact of its time and its importance in Soviet literature.

Garrett

Currently reading Anna Karenina. About 200 pages in. Way back in the archives of 2021 but enjoying the lectures and having a blast

Ally Edmondson

Dante’s Inferno (loving it!), Frankenstein and Everyman’s Pocket Poets: Villanelles, Poems of The Sea and the Halloween themed one 🎃 I thought Dante was going to be a more difficult read, something closer to Paradise Lost but I’ve found it to be quite an easy read? Anyone else experiencing this too? One Canto a day, before I leave my bed for work and it’s been amazing! 🔥⭕️

Constantin

Currently working on Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Found myself racing through it and feeling I’m not getting the most out of it. Hoping to find some guidance here for a reset and slow and deep reread alongside other texts.

David Stephens

Hello Fellow members. For some reason I just haven't been able to get back to my reading schedule and I feel riddled with guilt. Instead I have been wasting time watching YouTube. I have to make a concerted effort to resume reading the great books.Iam hoping it is just a peculiar phase and so I must ensure I do not extend the rut I am presently in.I am going to start with a "comfort" read to get back into a routine of sorts-and then it is back to literature!!

Constantin
>>152753373

Off to a great start with the first reading assignments on the epigraph; love the fact that the Paul Valéry text is also provided in the original French. A supplementary bilingual English-German version for Jakob Böhme would be great, too. It’s available online.

Cgast

My primary reasoning for plunging headfirst into the poetry of Dante’s Inferno is to facilitate internalizing the imagery possible with the italian language. I am a student of the language and function adequately at the B2 level yet I don’t feel the language the same way as I do in english. So with focused intent, I’m jumping into the deep end and following along with my copy of “La Divina Commedia”. Effort and sweat is my path, a year or more is the duration and e questo sito è Virgilio.

Mary Beth Barrett
>>152803058

Hit the back catalogue of videos they are awesome and inspiring. You can get lost back there! Its like the halls of an old library. Just go cruising through. You are bound to find something that hits. Let me know what you find :)

Yoknapatawpha

I enjoyed the first chapter or intro to