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sketching-shark · 9 months
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Not that long ago I threw out the idea of creating a Journey to the West reading group, and was delighted to see a fair number of people interested in the prospect! So in the effort to see this come to fruition while still taking into account everyone's different schedules, time zones, and busy lives, here's my general proposal for how this will work:
The version of Xiyouji that this reading group will start with will be the Anthony C. Yu English translation, firstly because while long it is the most complete and accurate translation out there, and secondly because thanks to @journeytothewestresearch it is completely free to download and read as pdfs! I'll create a separate blog specifically for this reading group, which will act as something of a hub/archive for people's analysis, art, reactions, memes, criticisms, additions of context, etc. as we make our way through the journey. The schedule that I'm thinking of would be to do one chapter per week, which would be more or less 20 pages per week. This group would "meet" every Sunday, which would be the day participants are encouraged to finish that week's chapter and/or submit their creative/analytical pieces about it. Sunday would also be the day where I'd give a quick recap on that week's chapter, and would mass reblog anything participants submitted to have that work in the archive. This is what I imagine for starters, but if it works out well we could try organizing larger events or even chat rooms.
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in a JTTW themed reading group! Of course people should feel free to offer any advice, concerns, criticisms, or questions, but if this sounds like a solid plan for a tumblr based book club then I'll get to work on the reading group blog and a pinned post that will detail where people can access the Yu pdfs along with a good summary of the entire journey, and provide something of a tentative reading schedule. So here's hoping this sounds like a good set up, and here's looking forward to getting this journey started!
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 🌹
November's book of the month has been decided! We are reading "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "a short story of a man who crash lands his plane in a remote part of the desert. The man meets a little fellow, The Little Prince, who regales him with his tales of his travels around the universe." Synopsis taken from Goodreads. This story was chosen for this month due to lots of members participating in NanoWriMo. It's only about 93 pages long with lots of illustrations by the author himself, so those who want to get some reading in this month, but don't have time for a regular-sized novel can still do so.
Happy November Everyone!!
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Interested in learning about our club? You can read about our club activities at this post linked here.
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rockislandadultreads · 5 months
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National Reading Group Month: Book Club Picks
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School. But as this family saga plays out, we see J.D.'s family struggle profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he carries the demons of his family's history.
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off under mysterious circumstances. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. 
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable - more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows something is wrong. As she digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, Claudia discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing?
The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
On June 5, 1944, in a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers since the Germans invaded her country. Only twenty-two, she learned to bake at the side of the village baker, Ezra Kuchen, before he was forced to wear the six-pointed yellow star on his clothing and pulled from his shop at gunpoint. In the years that followed, Emma stealthily fought back by baking contraband bread for her village. 
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federer7 · 2 years
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“Reading Group”, The New Yorker, Oct 15 2018
Cover: J. J. Sempé
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alanshemper · 2 years
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“How can capitalists go on like this? ... They still feel that they own the world. ... They think they have nothing to fear.”
—How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm
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theeclecticlibrary · 3 months
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Come join us on Twitch on Thursday (today) at 6pm ET for the Primordium reading group as we read and discuss bell hooks' essay "Loving Blackness."
bell hooks was an American author, professor, and scholar who is best known for her writings on the intersectionality of race, gender, and capitalism.
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macrolit · 2 years
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Hello, maybe you and/or your followers can help me out with this: I have been given the chance to organise a book club at my university and I am currently in the process of picking out literature for it. Since it will be a weekly thing with a changing group (pretty much a come whenever you want kind of thing) I would like to be able to discuss a different text each week instead of looking at the same book for a longer period. So I thought that turning it into a short story club might be fun and I am not trying to put together a list of short stories (maybe also essays and longer poems) for that. I would love some ideas, especially since I am trying to put together a diverse list of authors :D
Hi! This sounds like a super fun idea. :) I'm going to give you three short story suggestions, but I hope a bunch of my followers will do the same. I know I'd love to see a big list that I can go back and reference myself. :) My three are: "Lost Letters" or "Litost" - Milan Kundera "How to Tell a True War Story" - Tim O'Brien "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor Okay, two more. 😅 "Lappin and Lapinova" - Virginia Woolf "The Book of the Grotesque" - Sherwood Anderson Looking forward to hearing the suggestions of others!
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thebookbud · 1 year
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Hey guys! Wanna crush your TBRs with some fun challenges? Come check out our group on Goodreads! We do all kinds of fun stuff and plan on Buddy Reads coming soon too! Plus if you read the most in our Battle of the Books by the end of the year, you get a prize!
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warmtake · 4 months
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authorbuzzuk · 11 months
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Author's platform tip: Book clubs and reading groups
As you work to expand your platform consider hosting a book club or reading group. This allows you to not only make friends with like-minded people but foster deep relationships with potential readers. Hosting a reading group is a reliable way to connect with readers and promote your book to an “inner circle”. Book clubs can also be a fine place to get feedback on your new work. You will quite…
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tea-and-law · 1 year
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Ulysses reading group - Jan 23rd
Hey everyone!
Over at the DFW Community on Discord we plan on reading Ulysses starting on Monday 23rd with discussions scheduled on the weekends. Everyone is welcome, first time readers and rereaders, we'd like to go through one episode a week, at least for the first eight or so, then we'll change the schedule accordingly c: i've been gathering some resources and those will be posted as well. If you join our discord server for Ulysses and you are not interested in postmodernism don't worry: you can click on the 📘in #roles to get the Ulysses reader role, it will hide all the other channels. There is no obligation to stay/discuss anything other than joyce if you don't want to, we aim to keep book talk open to anyone and try to conquer ulysses together! This is the invite link: https://discord.gg/2qDt8JfVYD Happy reading!
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sketching-shark · 9 months
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The Journey to the West Reading Group Blog is now live!
Thank you again to everyone enthusiastic about starting a Journey to the West reading group! I’m happy to say that I’ve just finished creating a blog for it, so feel free to check out https://journeythroughjourneytothewest.tumblr.com/ current only post to get a sense of the schedule I’m thinking of! And of course feel free to let me know either here or there if you have any specific questions or concerns; this is my first time running a blog-based reading group, so needless to say I’m likely to make some goofs. In spite of that, I hope that this is the beginning of something a lot of people have fun with, and here’s looking forward to the religiousness and ridiculousness that makes Xiyouji such a wonderful work.
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So excited for this reading group!
We will read these 3 books in the next 3 months or so. The last time I read the first was years ago and now I'm finally going to re-read it with a lot of fans and the author herself. This is going to be fantastic! 🥹❤️
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rockislandadultreads · 5 months
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National Reading Group Month: Book Club Picks
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Mistry Law is handling the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen goes through the papers, she notices something strange: all three have signed over their inheritance to a charity. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen tries to investigate and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder.
This is the first volume of the "Perveen Mistry" series.
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
In this memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family - of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Recounting her family's story, Nina takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer.
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. This volume chronicles Elizebeth's life and how she played an integral role in our nation's history for forty years.
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself at the center of a story he cannot control.
This is the first volume of the "Hawthorne & Horowitz" series.
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The Cultural Politics of Code: A Critical Code Studies Reading Group
The Cultural Politics of Code is a new reading group exploring ideas and methods from the emerging field of critical code studies.
Critical Code Studies (CCS) seeks to analyse both the functional operation of programs and the source code to interpret priorities and significance that may not be clear through either lens alone. CCS holds that the lines of code in a program are not value-neutral and can be analysed using the theoretical approaches applied to other semiotic systems, in addition to particular interpretive methods developed specifically for the discussions of programs. CCS is fundamentally interdisciplinary, taking cues from cultural studies, semiotic analysis, science and technology studies, and media archaeology.
This reading group will begin with discussion and exploration of the methods associated with CCS, moving on to collaborative codebase analyses and expansion of critical code methods to other fields in the digital humanities (e.g. digital museum studies, cultural analytics, interactive fiction studies). This term’s discussions will cover code aesthetics and poetics, black-boxing and machine learning, and explainability and accessibility of code.
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alanshemper · 2 years
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Shots fucking fired
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