2019
What are your ideas about love? Is love an overwhelming romantic feeling? Can it be a decision or a duty? Can you fall out of love? Have you wished for a better understanding of the love of God? Can friends love each other? What about families and our love for them? In English, we use the same word for all these feelings … love …. but the Greeks have different words for these feelings of love and each has its different distinctions. Do you want to learn more? Then please join Classical Carousel in a read-along of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves for the month of June! To find out more about the read along, please go here.
The Bout of Books Read-a-thon is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 25 information and updates, visit the Bout of Books blog.
Did you get stuck in or gave up on #Donquijote #Donquixote? Join Lory at Emerald City Book Review and Emma at Words and Peace starting the week of March 18. It will be a slow and very manageable read along of Don Quixote, about one chapter/day, with a recap with questions and comments once a week, alternated on Lory’s blog and Emma’s. All are welcome to join. Follow the blogs to get details when all is ironed out.
Nick at One Catholic Life has chosen four books for 2019 for his Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Lilith by George MacDonald, and The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. If you would like to join in, get copies of the books you’d like to read. Then post about it on your blog. Download the daily schedule and commit to reading a chapter a day.
If you’re a Classics Clubber, please leave details about classic book blogger events you’d like to share with the group in the comments below. The most recent will be at the top if you’re on the hunt for something. Please let us know the start and end date for the event, some details, and a link to the home site. It’s fine to do this whether you’re the host of the event or simply want to share one you’ve discovered, as long as you’re a clubber. If you want to be notified of new events, subscribe to the comments below. (Also check out any events our members on Twitter may have tweeted about at hashtag #cceventsched.) 🙂 – The Club
I’m hosting a read-along of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves if anyone would like to join me. Here’s my initial post: https://classicalcarousel.com/four-loves-read-along/
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Hello,
I’m hosting a read-along for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, for the month of April. If anyone is interested, check it out here:
https://greatbookstudy.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-vindication-of-rights-of-womenread.html
Thanks!
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Hi!
I’m hosting a readalong for Gone with the Wind from March 1-31 if anyone is interested!
I know many Classics Club members have this book on their TBR and it might be a good chance to knock it off once and for all!
For more info: https://thebookcorps.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/gone-with-the-wind-readalong-march/
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Not to be pushy, but Brona, dear Brona, is the Moby Dick read-along still happening in February??
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2019 year of Shakespeare anyone? Maybe one play a month?
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I could possibly get behind that.
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We could even make it into a 3 year project to get all the plays, if people got really excited. Though that seems long. 😁
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Part of me says, “Absolutely!” and part of me says, “Yeah, prolly not gonna happen.” Maybe make a poll and have people vote on what they’d like to have included? Or let everyone choose their own things and just have it be a “read some Shakespeare” event like the Women Authors event from a year or two ago?
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I was thinking more aling the lines of voting for the plays, and everyone reading the same. But we could also split it into 4 month tragedy, comedy, history and let people read however many they want.
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