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Book Club Discussion for January 2025 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

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

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 January 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

  • Highlights from the year just gone

  • Goals & resolutions for the New Year

  • 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, and year, is filled with exciting bookish adventures.

Happy reading!

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George Ambruster

Hello everyone. I want to start with Siddhartha and I want to read it in English but I live in Spain and we might be limited in what English editions are available. So I wanted to ask if anyone has a list of good editions/translations of Siddhartha to English.

Laura Wolf

I signed up for Poetry Foundation's poem of the day and it hits my email every morning. I've enjoyed reading a poem everyday and now I'm finding myself searching my poetry books throughout the day for a quiet moment. Sometimes if the it hits right I read the poem out loud to someone in my family. Otherwise I'm reading One Hundred Year's of Solitude and loving it.

L.M. Francis

I was a photojournalist by trade and after retiring I decided to write a novel. I remembered something Steven King said that reading is writing and if you are not reading you are not writing. Before writing a single word I went on a binge of reading novels., something I had never done. It prepared me for my authorship. So that was 11 years earlier. So while lounging around I stumbled across this channel. I had just completed Cities of Salt a novel by Abdelrahman Munif. Then I moved into Dickens which I am reading right now. Bleak House is surprising me as to good it is. I am going to start with 100 Years of Solitude. I am also very interested in Faulkner. Faulkner and Joyce are the two authors I am interested in. I am looking forward to supercharging my reading here.

Debra Schnitzer

So far in January I've read Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, listened to Where the Crawdads sing. Also, Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering heights. Now reading All Fours by Miranda July, Belladonna by Adalyn Grace, The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, and listening to My Brillant Friend by Elean Ferrante. Waiting for my book club books.

Philip Spuler

Hi there! New to the club and getting up to speed with the schedule and format. I started Crime and Punishment a few weeks ago, so I’ll likely wait to join a read along until March’s Madame Bovary. I did find the past lectures related to C&P so I’m enjoying a self paced journey through the story. I just finished up James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain and absolutely loved it. I found the novel to have exceptional dialogue and found myself annotating quite a bit.

TwistedKnitster

I picked up “Small Things like These” after seeing so many people on BookTube praising it as one of their favorite reads of 2024. I’m reading it or savoring it in 30 minute bites before bed but this will be my 5th book of the year. Found a quite place and used noise canceling headphones since the house can get noisy and started “Meamorphoses” By Ovid and am beside myself with the story so far. This has been the most enjoyable book I’ve read and I’m less than 50 pages in. This was the first book I’ve EVER annotated and my wife asked me to buy the paperback version so I’m using flags and transparent post-it notes for my notations and will transfer them to the paperback on Wednesday when the paperback arrives. I’m reading the Penguin classics version translated by David Raeburn. The pre-summary of each book is fabulous because it lets you know who the characters are and their relevance that are forthcoming. I’m currently reading “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler on my hourly commute and he inspired me to begin annotating as a way to engage further with the book and Author. The concept seems simple but the detail and process has changed how I read permanently. Thank you Benjamin for recommending that and for the two books so far in the challenge.

TwistedKnitster
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Lloyd, 100 years of solitude was way better than I had anticipated it to be. The writing is richly descriptive and unlike anything I’ve ever read. So much so I read his last book “Until August” last weekend. Different genre but the same writing style. I hope you don’t dismiss Metamorphoses by Ovid. I’m less than 50 pages in and it may be the best book I’ve ever read.

Micheal P. Gumbert

Hi everyone - so I was here as a member before and took some time away but am back (clearly). At the moment for another in-person book group I am reading Plato's Meno and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. If you are from the Midwest of the United States of a certain and listened to public radio stations you will recognize this line, it's been a quiet week out here on the edge of the prairie. I work remotely and it has been bone chillingly cold here as of late so I have been forced inside more than I would normally be but I have used it for my reading. In addition to reading I have been using the time for a Latin class I have started which I am very excited about. Also, for 2025 I am trying to make an effort to learn more about the arts especially the "fine" arts things like painting, sculpture, ballet, opera, and classical music. Things I enjoy but what to get beyond a surface level of understanding.

Katie

Hi everyone! I was unsure where else to post this, but I was looking to get into literary criticism. I got my Masters Degree in History, so I am unsure of how the literary field looks and if I should approach it the same way I did historical monographs. Does anyone have any recommendations? I know Benjamin brings up Harold Bloom a lot, but is there a specific Harold Bloom book/essay/article I should check out? Or should this be more of a journey of trial and error lol. Thank you!!

Josie Gimmestad

You can get in search of lost time on Apple as an ebook for free right now! It’s also Ben’s favorite translation 🥹

Laura DiFrancesco

I am so so excited for the 2025 lineup!!! It’s phenomenal. I’ve read 8 or so of the Shakespeare journey so far last year and am excited to continue. Also, so excited for 100 years of Solitude & Ovid to kick off the year! I just finished a re-read of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame + a read of Onyx Storm. Onyx Storm was my favorite yet!! So so good if you like Romantasy! I did a YouTube / podcast on it if you’d like to geek out together. I’m also wrapping up Dicken’s from the end of last year read!