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A Special Bookish Q&A Show (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

I recently sat down with a coffee to answer a sprawling variety of questions about reading great literature in celebration of a significant milestone over on the YouTube channel.

We're talking about how to read in our digital world, practicalities of deep reading, returning to marginalia, my research process, syllabuses for children, and so much more. We're also discussing cherished writers like William Shakespeare, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and many more.

I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for you. Thank you so much for keeping these great books alive with me. I appreciate how much love you have for literature. And it warms my heart to see how fully you are bringing yourselves to these life-changing works.

A quick note on our next masterpiece. As we've recently wrapped up Charlotte Brontë's incredible Jane Eyre, our very next video will be our introductory 'how to read' lecture for Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. So make sure you have secured your personal copy of this postmodern masterpiece. I will be working from this edition from Vintage paperback.

I hope you enjoy the bookish discussion, and please feel free to jump to any topic that you're most interested in via the timestamps below.

Video Timestamps:

  • 0:00 thank you for reading along
  • 0:47 Shakespeare’s comedies or tragedies?
  • 3:40 how approach syllabus for your future child?
  • 7:38 how to read in a world of distractions?
  • 10:45 your favourite of Shakespeare’s English histories?
  • 13:32 advice for reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch?
  • 17:31 know one book intimately or a hundred superficially?
  • 19:57 fondest literature travel memory?
  • 20:40 where in the world would you take a literature pilgrimage?
  • 22:12 which work gave you the biggest book hangover?
  • 23:20 have you read Brazilian literature/Clarice Lispector?
  • 24:29 have you read literature from the Balkan region?
  • 25:04 your ranking of the episodes of Joyce’s Ulysses?
  • 27:51 your top three favourite authors? And their favourite works?
  • 29:54 stories as thrilling as The Count of Monte Cristo?
  • 30:55 any classics of hardcore literature you haven’t read?
  • 32:18 what are your thoughts on the value of reading manga?
  • 34:12 have you considered discussing DFW’s Infinite Jest?
  • 36:48 how to encourage young readers in this digital world?
  • 45:10 how did you first start reading?
  • 46:13 how many books have you read so far?
  • 46:20 your favourite quote from a book?
  • 46:54 most valuable lesson from reading great books?
  • 47:39 poetry recommendations for special needs education?
  • 48:55 why take the dust jackets off your books?
  • 49:41 your thoughts on Katz’s translation of Dostoyevsky?
  • 49:58 what are your favourite candy reads?
  • 50:37 your favourite contemporary writers at the moment?
  • 50:55 what did you do when Cormac McCarthy died?
  • 51:20 is it normal to cringe at your old marginalia?
  • 52:11 have you felt the call of a book you haven’t read before?
  • 53:00 which literary movement do you most identify with?
  • 54:37 how much time do you spend on content vs reading?
  • 56:25 how do you approach a book you’ve never heard about?
  • 58:42 some of your favourite non-fiction books?
  • 59:03 what is your research process like for content?
  • 1:02:02 who are your favourite prose stylists?
  • 1:02:21 your thoughts on FOMO with contemporary fiction?
  • 1:05:43 would you prefer a story with style or substance?
  • 1:06:52 what are the practicalities of your reading?
  • 1:11:11 how to manage reading for fun vs university?
  • 1:12:00 how to avoid burnout when studying literature?
  • 1:14:29 what would you do differently at university?
  • 1:17:00 when will the reading schedule for 2024 be announced?
  • 1:17:48 expressing my gratitude for you

Thank you for appreciating great literature with me and do let us know if you have any insights relating to anything we discussed.

  • Who are the top three writers in your personal canon?
  • What is the most valuable lesson you've learnt from reading?
  • Where would you take a literary pilgrimage?

Happy reading and love to you all!

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Philip Mildenberger

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Scott W

I hear this is the thread to post our 2024 guesses? Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales Dante, Inferno Beowulf Wallace, Infinite Jest something by Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms? Aristotle, Poetics or Ethics I could guess more but I feel the force is strong with these ones. :)