This sounds great. Also the ISOLT - our reading group in Paris did that during the pandemic too. I’ll keep an eye on your group feed too!
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If you like long projects, a dozen of us are reading all of Shakespeare's plays with Much Ado About Nothing starting on Feb. 1st. #MuchAdo_2025 We're on the penultimate day of #RichardII_2025 now! I'm working on updating my substack this weekend: alltheletters.substack.com/p/all-the-ba...
jan 25, 2025, 5:44 pm • 9 4 • view
What did you read as a group before I joined for Henry IV?
jan 25, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view
I've led slow-reads of all of Woolf's novels, short fiction & a play; Rosamund Lehmann's Dusty Answer; Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them; The Iliad; Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart. Many of us read Proust, Mann, Knausg., Yourcenar, Beard w/ @literaturesc.bsky.social since 2020.
jan 25, 2025, 8:05 pm • 3 1 • view
Oh gosh, sorry. I meant which of the Shakespeare plays. But most of those sound like great group slow-reads.
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We started with Henry IV part 1 - so, you've been with us from the beginning 🙂 I'm working on a post on my substack about this first Henriad that we've read together. A memento of these 3.5 months (we started on Oct. 1, 2024)!
jan 25, 2025, 8:23 pm • 3 1 • view
Yay & Yay
jan 25, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Ugh I _love_ Woolf and Lehmann!
jan 25, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I'll be joining for Much Ado About Nothing, and hopefully continuing for the others.
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Oooh tempting!
jan 25, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Slow read- about 15 minutes daily.
jan 25, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Glad to hear that Much Ado is next!
jan 25, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Are we skipping Henry VI, pts 1, 2, and 3?
jan 26, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
No, my understanding is that they will follow this comedic interlude.
jan 26, 2025, 7:54 pm • 3 0 • view
My understanding is the same.
jan 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Correct! We must finish the second Henriad!
jan 26, 2025, 11:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Fantastic we could use some humor.
jan 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely. Also, why can't the NYT says "The government" rather than Big Idiot's surname? Seeing those 5 letters makes my blood boil instantly.
jan 27, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Good point! I made the mistake of reading about his trip to LA and all the incredibly stupid things he said there. My favorite is the secret valve for water from Canada and PNW for California he will unveil for us! 😜
jan 27, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Faucet on! Faucet off! Who knew!?
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Only He who must not be named!
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