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Book Club Discussion for February 2025 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

You had another incredible reading month in January, 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 February 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, and year, is filled with exciting bookish adventures.

Happy reading!

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L.M. Francis

I made a big mistake. While in a bookstore I saw Proust's novel Swann's Way. Curious I picked it up. After reading the first sentence, feeling invigorated I purchased it. Damn! It is hard to restrict oneself to just ten pages. I find myself sometimes so transported that I don't want to stop. But that is what I am doing daily along with writing about it. My method is to read ahead write marginalia, and then after finishing the first section, reading and journaling the entire reread from the beginning, while only reading five pages ahead from where I left off. The prose invites me to visualize as much as I can what I am reading. I am amazed at this book already. It's gonna be my background read, going on while I read other books. Thank God I have the time to do it.

Donna F.

Hi Everyone—I hope people are doing well and enjoying the reading. I’ve been pretty debilitated after some health issues. Looking through the back catalog I decided to start this year with Jane Eyre. Best Wishes to All.

Loren A Boston

At Ben’s suggestion I recently purchased “The Perpetual Orgy” by Llosa in expectation of reading Madame Bovary. This book is incredibly enlightening with respect to Madame Bovary, Flaubert and realism. I highly recommend it. Best to all.

Yoknapatawpha

Finished reading Madame Bovary tonight on flight from San Francisco. My first ever read of this top-50-novels-of-all-time on most lists. Also whilst in SF, used a driverless car service, Waymo, for the first time. Amazing. Instantly hooked on Flaubert and Waymo, interesting bedfellows (maybe that's just San Fran).

Marie

Currently reading Infinite Jest. Up to page 564 and using the past lectures on here. It’s great so far! I’m also listening to the audio book for Rejection:Fiction, which I can’t say is the best book but I’m still committed to finishing what I started! Also reading non-fiction “The First Episode of Psychosis” but that’s for work so maybe doesn’t really count.

Eric

Just joined and am currently reading Crime and Punishment and listening to the old lectures! I’m also reading a mixture of Freud and Jung. Hoping to dive into existential philosophy. I am a film lover and would love to know a favorite film that they recently have watched. I just watched Nickel Boys, a film entirely shot in 1st person POV and it was incredible. (P.S. If anyone lives in mpls Minnesota, would be awesome to assemble a meetup of some kind one day. If interested, feel free to reach out!)

Donna F.
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Hi. I’m Donna. Welcome. I too love films. I’ve been reading about cinema. I recently finished a book about the making of the classic Hollywood movie , All About Eve, and I’m currently reading how Hollywood films changed in the 1940’s, such as using flashbacks. I watch a lot of film noir. Recently watched A Murder of Crows and 2 films that Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy starred in. I know a couple of people who enjoyed Nickel Boys—I’ll have to check it out. Happy reading/watching.

Donna F.

Hi Everyone. I’m back in the hospital for antibiotics and wound care, then I’ll be in a skilled nursing facility for a week or so. Infections are stubborn. I’m enjoying Jane Eyre. Sending everyone Best Wishes and Happy Reading.

Yvonne Finnegan

In February I read of course 100 years of solitude and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Also, I read what turned out to be a work of “magical realism,” to my surprise: La vouivre, by Marcel Aymé (I inherited 7 of his books from my mom—merci maman!) Serendipity! It has much in common with OHYOS. To balance all these fantastical elements, I am also immersed in Jane Austen’s letters—enjoying the wit of the author and getting a glimpse into her everyday concerns. I also read “Ladder of Years” by Anne Tyler, which really perplexed me as to authorial intention, and started Knut Hamsun’s Hunger.

Donna F.

Hi. I’m temporarily in a snf—skilled nursing facility for wound care. Thank goodness I have the iPad and kindle with me! I’m enjoying Jane Eyre very much! On the side, I’m also reading 2 noir books, a book of film reviews of the great movies by Roger Ebert, a book about the comedy/music sensation from Saturday Night Live during the 1970s and 1980s, The Blues Brothers, and a Sci-fi book. It keeps me out of the pool hall (grin).

Ann B
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Best healing wishes for your wound care!! I know how challenging and long this road can be. I can understand how this book club adds so much interest for you while you heal!

Karen

I completed reading OYOS, and particularly enjoyed the humor, which balanced the heaviness of the read. Just a beautiful artwork of language. The same for Metamorphoses- masterful storytelling. I completed Wintering by Katherine May, which has transformed my approach to the winter season, and have begun Madame B. Just retrieved The Letters of G Flaubert from my local library. This book club has invited me to (again!) carry a book with me always. So grateful to have recommitted to the expansive joy of reading.