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Jane Austen Discussion

Upcoming Discussion on Jane Austen:

Chris is going for a Jane Austen Scholarship Essay due May 15th 2010 and is looking for insight regarding Jane Austen.

The topic of the essay is related to the construction of "chaos" in Northanger Abbey.

Separate Novel Discussions: Specifically, Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion

Date: April 17th 2010

Upcoming Discussion: February

Text: Northanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Location: Sanne's Place

Date: Sunday, February 21st 2010 @ 2pm

The "Imperials" Return...

Current Reads:

Chris Wallace

- Currently Reading:

-- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

-- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

- Upcoming

-- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

-- The Turn of the Screw

Susan Abildgaard

-- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Jane Eyre discussion to Commence August 1st

The Imperial Readers has reconvened!

Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is first up on the discussion list, followed shortly by "Tess of the d'Ubervilles" (Thomas Hardy).

Following these two "Chick Classics" will be a "Dude Classic" still to be determined from a list including authors Hemmingway, Burroughs, & Dickens.

Discussion notes to be posted.

Summer Book Crunching

HEY!!!!

Summer Reading up and running (finally)

Books will be divided into two traditional, sexist categories.

TDB (The Dude Books)

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TCB (The Chick Books)

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This is grossly generalized, but it is being done to appeal to Sanne & John's conflicting tastes.

Upcoming Selections TBA!

~Chris

Currently Reading - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Currently Completed - The Ox-Bo Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Book Break - Semester Interval Allots Extra Reading Time

Last Novel Reviewed:
"So Big" by Edna Ferber

Mixed Reviews:
-Sanne: "I loved it, it's a fave of mine!"
-Ole: "Shallow characters, no development."
-Charlotte: "Ditto Ole."
-Chris: "Enjoyable, I'd read it again."


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The Book Club has been on a bit of a stand-still on account of Chris' summer semester classes and practicum, Susan's trip to England, John's commitment to the construction of Sanne's sunroom, and Charlotte's trip to Japan. Whew! We're all over the place. Charlotte gets back this Saturday so we'll have a little meeting to discuss what novel we'd like to do next . . . In the meantime:

BOOK TRACKER:
- Chris -> "The Postman Always Rings Twice"   by   James Cain

- Charlotte -> "Outliers"   by   Malcom Gladwell

- Susan -> "Tess of the d'Ubervilles"    by   Thomas Hardy