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For August we are going to read .... "As I lay dying" by William Faulkner

And for September we'll ready "Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer.

So get your books we'll start August 1st. And I will post the discussion schedule. Of course feel free to read ahead, but in discussions lets try to not spoil it.

So I hope I sorta pleased everyone hahaha, thats a hard task!

ahh im excited! Im gonna go out and get the book tonight or tomorrow and start it =]

I'm glad we finally got this all sorted out.  Great book choices by the way.  I can't wait to get started!  This is gonna be so much fun!

Yay!! I'm so excited to start this! I'm getting the book tomorrow. 

I'm going to get my book tomorrow. I'm so excited! I can't wait to start. Are we going to have a designated day that we are going to discuss the book, cause I'm going to be in Florida next week and I don't know if the internet is going to work. I hope it does...

Just bought the book! I'm gonna start it tonight. I ride the train everyday for an hour each way so I might finish this one a little early :P

 I'll go get it as soon as i can. Tomorrow hopefully

 I need to go and get my book.  Hopefully tomorrow. I'm so excited.  

So Kaci suggested by the length of the book 14-15 chapters a week. At the end of each week we can have a forum discussion and set up a chat time. The first week August 1- August 8 chapters 1-15 Second week August 9- 15 chapters 16 - 29 Third Week August 16 - 22 chapters 30 - 43 Fourth week August 22 - 29 chapters 44 - 59 Then the 30-31 we can discuss overall thoughts of book, and get ready for next month

happy.endings:

So Kaci suggested by the length of the book 14-15 chapters a week. At the end of each week we can have a forum discussion and set up a chat time. The first week August 1- August 8 chapters 1-15 Second week August 9- 15 chapters 16 - 29 Third Week August 16 - 22 chapters 30 - 43 Fourth week August 22 - 29 chapters 44 - 59 Then the 30-31 we can discuss overall thoughts of book, and get ready for next month

Sounds great!  I got the book yesterday and i'm going to start reading it today i think =) i don't think i can wait =)!  YAY!

 

I am intrested in joining in ladies.  Going to go get the book today!

 Thank goodness we have a HUGE library nearby. I checked the book out today and i have it for quite awhile. Having the library is nice because i'm not too sure if i would have wanted to purchase this book. It kind of seems like a book i would have been forced to read in a literature class in college haha. But i am going to try it out and hope for the best. 

Starting reading tonight

 

Oh also today i stumbled across a book at the library that was our "community read" for the month. It looks a little interesting, its about love, marriage and war. It's called March. I wouldn't make this a group read but i thought i would throw the title out there for people interested.

NewfyMarineWife:

 It kind of seems like a book i would have been forced to read in a literature class in college haha. But i am going to try it out and hope for the best. 

LOL it's funny you say that cause 'As I Lay Dying' was on one of the summer reading requirements table for a local high school at my Barnes and Nobles.

quartnaz:

LOL it's funny you say that cause 'As I Lay Dying' was on one of the summer reading requirements table for a local high school at my Barnes and Nobles.

 

 

Haha I kind of figured it was that type of book because when i looked it up on the internet it came up with spark notes. I can never judge a book by its cover or "synopsis" I have to attempt to read it first before I judge it. It just seems a bit out of my element. I'm still really excited about this book thing though. 

Is anyone else doing the library deal? A lot of big libraries have good book selections.

NewfyMarineWife:

 Thank goodness we have a HUGE library nearby. I checked the book out today and i have it for quite awhile. Having the library is nice because i'm not too sure if i would have wanted to purchase this book. It kind of seems like a book i would have been forced to read in a literature class in college haha. But i am going to try it out and hope for the best. 

I thought i was the only one that felt this way!  HA HA HA!  When i looked it up it came up with the book and foot notes and what not too!  LOL! 

I think it's going to be part of the fun to read a book that you wouldn't normally pick out for yourself! I think I might try the library thing too, but I always forget to return them on time so sometimes it just easier to buy them!

Thanks Maggie for getting this thing started it should be fun!

Well Ladies I struck out in finding both books today. So I am going to try the local library, I can't promise anything. I'll have to wait until Saturday because Art has to take my truck to work tomorrow. So I'll let you know if I can find them.

 

 Well ladies count me out of this month and maybe next month. I could not find those books anywhere. I even checked the library & they checked the local college library. I still hope I can find the book for September. 

 

 

Hey Ladies. I wont be around this weekend to full participate in the discussion for week one. Also if you guys want to do a chat, maybe the book club members can meet friday night (since its the start of the new week) 10 eastern 7 pacific. Whatca think?

Hey ladies, I'm going to join you at some point... Our libraries here are TINY and so I ordered the August book from the bookstore, it should be here within the next few days (I hope) so I'll jump into the discussions when I get it - I'm a fast reader so I should be able to catchup pretty quickly!

If it takes too long to get here, then I'll just join September's book club - already bought the book for it so I'm set!

OKay all I can say right now is that this book is so confusing haha I'm about 10 chapters in and I know what is going on but it's just they way they talk and bounce around is just hard to put everything together. Anyone else with me or am I the only one?

I am having to read this book very carefully and I think it will give us a chance to really have a lot of discussions about it.  Try sparksnotes, I know they have themes and helps on analyzing it.  Good luck with everything.

Chapter Check, how is everyone doing. The book is a challenging one with the language usage and the boucing between everyones perspective. Just want to see how everyone is doing!!!!! Please post here!  

I think if we get the discussion going it will make a lot more sense.  This book needs to be talked about.  The reading is going ok but I dunno how much of it I am understanding fully.  What do you ladies think?

Lets set up our first discussion, want to do a chat? We can do it any time this week, lets talk.