Update: Discussion has begun on Jane Eyre! Visit http://culturepoppe.boardhost.com to join in!
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It’s 2014, and in an effort to help with those resolutions, we’re hosting a book club! Structured around Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, we’ll read both his series and works referenced in (or with the same themes as) the Thursday Next books. The idea is simple: Read one book per month and discuss it on a dedicated discussion board.
I prefer Toby Stephens as Rochester, but Fassbender wasn’t so bad.
Our first book is the classic Jane Eyre – available for free on most eReader download sites. (You can find the Kindle version on Amazon.com and with a valid and subscribing library card, on Overdrive.com; if you’re in Nashville, here’s your link.) Unless you want to get started early, we’ll kick off the discussion of Jane Eyre on Wednesday, January 15.
Happy reading!
Some general rules for the discussion board:
- Feel free to post thoughts and questions as you reach them, but please identify the chapter number at the beginning of your comment to help avoid spoilers.
- Culture Poppe will make the discussion forums available for posting on the first of each month, but won’t begin posting until the 15th; however, please feel free to begin posting at any time. Discussion will last through the end of the month and a wrap up post will come to CulturePoppe.com.
- Note: Unless requested specifically by the poster, all content is available to repost on CulturePoppe.com.
And if you can’t join us every month, we’re posting our full 2014 schedule below – Poppe by when you can!
January: Jane Eyre
February: The Eyre Affair
UPDATE: Further hosting of the book club will be done via http://anunreliablenarrator.com. Join us!
March: Lost in a Good Book
April: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
May: The Well of Lost Plots
June: Hamlet OR The Merry Wives of Windsor
July: Something Rotten
August: First Among Sequels
September: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
October: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
November: The Little Prince
Possibility for December*: Dark Reading Matter
*The publish date hasn’t been announced for the eighth (and rumored to be final) installment. If it occurs in 2014, we’ll take off The Little Prince and shift everything up so that all books can be included.
Oh, this is happening! I want to play 🙂 I’ve never actually read Jane Eyre. This will be a good reason to do so.
So glad you’re joining – we’ll need you for the Thursday Next stuff ;). You know, I started it last night and realized that I hadn’t, either. I’d convinced myself that I had because I’ve seen every film version available, but even in the first four chapters there are characters I’d never heard of…