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Book Club Discussion for April 2025 (Patreon)

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2025-04-05 20:19:30
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Dear Book Club Readers ---

You had another incredible reading month in March, 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 April 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

  • Things that are giving you joy

  • Rewarding literary rabbit holes

  • Musings, notes, and marginalia

  • Things you want to recommend

  • Resonant character descriptions

  • General life updates (we're interested)

We have an exciting day tomorrow with our introductory video for our next big read with Faulkner, but let us know about anything you've been reading and loving recently.

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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Donna F.

Hi everyone. I’m in the hospital again. I need to step away from the HLBC until things are better. I wish everyone well

Karen Werner

I just finished Madame Bovary which I did enjoy it. This one really wasn’t my type of book. I also read Freeing Jesus by Diana Butler Bass. That was a pretty quick read as she brings in a lot of humor to things that are mysteries. I have just finished reading and watching Henry IV part 1 which I loved so much. I also watched it on the Hollow Crown series which I highly recommend to accompany that read.

Karen Werner

There is a movie of 100 years of solitude which is on Netflix. It helped a lot after I read the book to understand a bit of it that I was confused about.

Josie Gimmestad

Hey everyone! I’m enjoying the sound and the fury on audiobook today. I’m resting up this week before finals. :) hope you are all finding comfort and pleasure in your reads!

Wanda Colangelo

well I just joined and I'm reading books from my TBR stack..so I'm choosing Anna Karenina to start with

Peter F

I hope you cover "The time of the Hero" by Llosa in thr future. Just finished. Beautiful work

Carolyn

I coming to this group to ask for a book list to read during a recovery from surgery. I am looking for thought provoking books that contain life lessons. Thank you!

Terri Matter

My two favorite personal reads for May were: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (based on one of my favorite Robert Browning poems "The Last Duchess". ) "Beloved" by Toni Morrison which was a fantastic complementary read to "The Sound and the Fury", supplying both a feminine and black perspective. I would consider this a modern masterpiece.

Deborah E

Thoroughly enjoyed The Canterbury Tales - the bawdy humor kept the mood lighthearted, which was welcome respite after a purposefully slow read of The Sound and the Fury. Gholson Lyon mentioned the Gone With the Wind reference - which I've read a couple times. GWTW does help us understand the romanticized concepts of honor, pride, and family legacy in the old South. Thus, the white nostalgia for the wealth and status of the landed gentry. The Compsons lost the land and legacy, likely built by the forced free labor and exploitation of enslaved Black people. Their ultimate decay and soulless nostalgia for what they had lost felt hollow to me. I felt the most empathy for Quentin; his suicide, his flicker of insight into the futility of trying to live the old South values when most of the trappings had rotted. On a random note: did anyone else notice that when Quentin reminisced about the scent of honeysuckle he had incestuous thoughts of Caddy? I'm also finding that so many of the literary illusions I missed prior to HCBC now jump out at me! Like seeing bits of Chaucer woven into Shakespeare. Thank you, Ben!!

Deborah E

Enjoyed Madame Bovary. Throughout her series of love affairs and search for love I kept feeling like she expected the perfect mate to create perfect love for her. Even when she was manipulative she seemed to have no agency. She kept waiting for someone else to make life wonderful for her. Then, I remembered that, at that time, women truly had very little agency in creating their own lives. So much depended on her station in life, her parents' wealth, her luck in finding a suitable husband. I was judging Emma by 21st century realities, not by those of her own time. She did not have much self-determination, and she knew it, My view of her softened when I remembered the constraints of her world. In the end, it was too much to bear.