2019
Join Great Book Study in discovering the “outrageous” ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft in a read along of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman during the month of April. Sign up here.
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.
Zoladdiction is a yearly dedication to the French Naturalist writer, Émile Zola. For a month every April Fanda Classiclit will do Zola-ish things. Why April? Because it’s Zola’s birth month (he’s born on 2nd April 1840). The main object is to promote or (if you haven’t known him) to get to know Zola’s writing and works. Sign up for this challenge here.
Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon is coming once again on April 6. What is Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon? For 24 hours, we read books, post to our blogs, Twitters, Instagrams, Litsy, Facebook, Goodreads and MORE about our reading, and visit other readers’ homes online. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day. It happens twice a year, in April and in October. The readathon will begin promptly at 8 am Eastern time. Register here.
Laura at The Book Corps has announced a Gone With the Wind read along on her blog for March. Sign up and join in with Laura here.
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.
Rachel at Hibernator’s Library is working on a plan to take on Shakespeare in 2019. She will read and share four of his comedies, and, to help her out, Erica at The Broken Spine will read and share four of his tragedies. Rachel is still looking for someone to read and share four of his histories. Let The Classics Club or Rachel or Erica know if you might like to join in or offer support for this venture.
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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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