Book Club Housekeeping & Your Questions for Hardcore Literature (Patreon)

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 reading with us!

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 Q&A episodes:

• Episode XVIII 
• Episode XVII
• Episode XVI

3) Bookish Content

Our deep reading of James Joyce's Ulysses continues with one of the most musical and eccentric episodes in all of literature. We've also kicked off a rich discussion about the vampire and gothic literature with Bram Stoker's Dracula.

In addition to Dracula, we'll also be discussing ghosts, evil spirits, the occult, and the possessing power of music with J. Meade Falkner's 'The Lost Stradivarius,' a literary gem deserving of great love and close reading.

We'll shortly be appreciating some Victorian poetry, short horror stories, the next instalment of George Eliot's Middlemarch, a few more pages of Proust's Search, and, having just appreciated Much Ado About Nothing, we'll soon be moving into our cycle of winter plays.

4) Secret Dickens & Next Year's Schedule

We will be revealing our Secret Dickens before the month is out, and the book club schedule for next year will be announced in late November. I'm incredibly excited because we're going to be reading many truly remarkable works of great literature.

5) Thank you for your great comments

Thank you for continuing to make this such an amazing community to lovingly discuss great literature. You continue to warm my heart with your passionate, intelligent, and inspiring comments. I'm so grateful for you all, and I'm currently enjoying making my way through our discussion threads.

And that's all for now, folks!

Happy reading, and let us know if you have any questions for our Q&A show!