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Dear Book Club Readers ---

I hope your reading is treating you well!

Here's a little bit of Book Club housekeeping/admin for the month.

1) A very warm HLBC welcome to new patrons

Welcome aboard, and thank you for joining the club!

Do let us know which book(s) you're enjoying at the moment and what life is looking like for you.

2) Coffee with Hardcore Literature

Do you have any questions about reading the Great Books? Or, indeed, anything else?

If so, please do let me know either here or PM me and I would love to sit down with a coffee and record my answers.

Here are the last three episodes of our Q&A Show:

3) Upcoming content

We've got some great content coming out. We're rounding off Les Misérables, diving into our second lecture on Great Expectations, will have a video covering the "Theatre of the Mind", discussions on making next year your best reading year, and much more. What a great season for reading! 

4) Thank you for your great comments

I love reading through your insightful responses to these great works. I'm making my way through them with a cup of coffee right now.

Thank you for making this such a great community to discuss great literature deeply. I'm so grateful for you all.

And that's all for now, folks!

Happy reading!

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Bill Freeman

Ben - For your next Q&A - I have asked a question about reading and boredom but I'd like to change that question to the following: Tolstoy is considered, at least by some, as the greatest writer of the 19th century; Proust . . . of the 20th century. While we are only two decades in, at this point, who do believe might be considered the greatest writer of the 21st century?

Jo Ann Hinkle

I have a question about audio books for Ulysses. Has anyone listened to any of the audiobooks for this novel? Is there one that stands out as being better than the rest? I’ve never listened to any audiobooks, but I’m thinking I should delve into it especially for Ulysses. Any suggestions or thoughts on this matter are most welcome and appreciated.

hardcoreliterature

Hi Jo! I answered your question about the Oxford World’s Classics Ulysses on the latest Q&A show, which is currently being edited and should be out soon, but I’ve only just seen this question so I can answer it for you here. My top audiobook recommendation for Ulysses is the Jim Norton narration - 100%. He does a tremendous job and really makes it so much easier to understand - he also renders the humour so well!

Jo Ann Hinkle

Thank you for your answer, Ben! I’m sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Too many doctors’ appointments!! I bought the Oxford Ulysses and am looking forward to reading it. I don’t have much experience reading modern literature, but I need to leap into it somewhere. I feel so behind with lectures and reading…