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Next book: Lemoine Affair - Marcel Proust (most of us will not read it in French, but I liked the cover)
Valentine Louis Georges Eugène Marcel was born in Auteuil, Paris into an upper middle class family on July 10, 1871. His father was a well known pathologist and also an author of many books to do with medicine and hygiene. Marcel’s mother, a well read and literate lady, came from a strong background of a rich Jewish family.
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Our next novella!
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Our September book pick is: Pafko on the Wall by Don Delillo
As a side note we have decided to revisit the format of our podcast. We haven't given up, but in order to make it more accessible to a larger audience we've decided to change up how we record it. Look for it in the near future!
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Getting there!
Okay, we are getting there with the old podcast editing. The sound quality on this first one isn’t the best, but we should be able to fix that with our next one. We will do what we can on this first one.
Hope to hear from some of you soon! And thank you for being patient while we work out the process.
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We are currently working on editing our first podcast where we talked about The Lifted Veil by George Eliot. The editing process will probably take longer on this first one (working out the kinks). Should see that posted in the next week or two.
Our book for August is, Glaciers by Alexis Smith! Get reading and meet us back here for the podcast!
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Here we go. Tonight we will be recording part of our very first podcast where we talk about The Lifted Veil by George Eliot. If you have any burning questions you would like us to try and answer, please post it in the comments section.
For now take a look at one of George Eliot’s first published essays (click on the title of this post).This essay was first published in Westminster Review in 1856.
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Proof! We tested the podcasting equipment and will be recording our next meeting! Read The Lifted Veil by George Eliot along with us and ask questions before (and after) the podcast. We will try to answer any (or at least a few) posted questions during our podcast.
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Podcast in July
Things seems to be going well with our new podcasting equipment. We are doing a test run tonight and then we will be ready to PODCAST for our July 2 meeting. We will talk about The Lifted Veil by George Eliot.
We will dedicate one post to asking questions that people have about the book, and we will attempt to answer as many as we can during our podcast.
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Names
George Eliot changed her name an amazing three times. She was born in Arbury Hall near Nuneaton in 1819 named Mary Ann Evans and later moved to Coventry. In 1849 she left Coventry for London, calling herself Marian. When she started writing in 1858 she finally became the ever-popular George Eliot.
from the BBC website
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Our book for July is The Lifted Veil by George Eliot.
This book will kickoff the first podcast of our book group discussion. Feel free to post questions that we will try to answer in our podcast and read along with us! The podcast will be uploaded in mid-July if all goes well.
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"One can give such particulars too much value. Bourgeois habits have no claim to be sanctified or eternalized."
"So then . . .
We are for the time being, the living, maimed and defective."
The Actual, Saul Bellow
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We are currently reading The Actual by Saul Bellow
Stay tuned for our monthly podcasts about the books we are reading. Hopefully starting in July!
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Still, being alone doesn’t mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it’s different from losing something. You’ve still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You’ve got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you’re on your own.
Yoko Ogawa | The Diving Pool (via blogut)
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“It’s the haphazardness of this wreck, West’s carelessness, that makes it a poetic fate for the author of a novel like Miss Lonelyhearts. It’s often difficult to wrap our head around the fact that human suffering might just be the result of haphazard chance. We prefer our narratives (and our...
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June Book. Miss Lonelyhearts
Bonus: Day of the Locust
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