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Book Club Discussion for February 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

You had an 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 is filled with exciting bookish adventures.

Happy reading!

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Tatiana

You are the 2nd person to mention Wiseblood this week, thanks, I will get it. I am 6 of 17 books in on my All Faulkner project. Time to branch out further into Southern Gothic.

Tatiana

Early DeLillo is great too. I read his first 6 or 7 when they first came out.

Jane

I have started reading, Ours by Philip E Williams not bad at all but it is a chunkster. I have suddenly got busy with work stuff but I am trying to get rid of all that to go back to my reading. I had started Pride and Prejudice and had forgotten just how hilarious Austen is. I am continuing my read of Genji and loving it. I read Martin Amis ’ , Zone of Interest because the film has come out - I saw the film last night and it is chillingly good but the film is only loosely based on his novel.

Emma S.

I've just finished East of Eden, and am returning to an author I really enjoy, Daphne du Maurier. I'm reading My Cousin Rachel (for the first time) and am transfixed so far! I love how immersive her writing is, and it's wonderful to be transported to sunny Cornwall for a little while.

Brenda

My big read this month is 'The Recognitions' by William Gaddis. I am wondering if others have read this and what their take on it is. I'm finding it to be a somewhat difficult yet incredible read. Benjamin, is this a book you've considered doing an in depth review on? (or perhaps, JR?). Concurrently, I am enjoying a re-read of Anna Karenina.

Jeff
>>130476105

Hi Brenda, love The Recognitions, haven't finished it yet however. Did you know of a Gaddis website that gives copious annotations to all his work?

Neil Butler

Did anyone else find East of Eden to be very predictable, some of the characters stereotypical, and some of the dialog over simplified (and trite)? I couldn't help but think that it was written like a screenplay with the (James Dean) movie in mind...

Jeff Watson

Still on track to complete Ulysses by Bloomsday, reading one Shakespeare play each month (Othello this month), and reading through Dickens (Great Expectations this month). Also slowing making my way through Bloom’s The Western Canon.

Neil Butler
>>131283402

Harold Bloom's books are staples in my library. Many times, before I start out on a journey with a great book or poet's work I heck in with him to get his take on it, his analysis. I find it very helpful every time!

Laura Duck

I am attempting to read War and Peace. So far I am 260pages into it. I am struggling to read much of it every day, but I am impressed with the funny parts. Last year I attempted to read it, and I failed at ~100pages. I have read "Classics" in the past, but these days, I read lighter fare. The other book I am currently reading is "Mockingjay" (Hunger Games #3). My teen and I are reading it simultaneously and discussing it. Others online say that, compared to other stories, so far The Hunger Games series has stood up well to the time that has passed since it was first published (2008). Of course, this is only 16 years, so I wonder if it will continue in popularity and importance 100 years from now. My other goal for this year is to complete as many of the series I am in the middle of right now. I sometimes wonder if War and Peace would feel more accessible if it was published as a series instead of a 1300 page tome. There are several series of more than 1300 pages...which are also very popular. And War and Peace was originally written as a serial. Publishing was different back then.

Tatiana
>>131258507

That's why I skipped it and went ahead with The Master and Margarita.