Woo-hoo! Saturday evening my time, which should be late afternoon West Coast, and slightly later evening East Coast. I’m excited and hopefully everyone who is interested can make it. If not, I’ll also be posting a discussion space.
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DCIB Book/Movie Club: Sangam! Watch it, and then Discuss it On Saturday Feb 17!
Bhansali inspired me! Sangam is SUCH a good movie, and there is so much to consider in it, I think it is a perfect one for us all to talk about.
Continue readingDCIB Bookclub: Scarlet Pimpernel!!! A Plot that Moves Like a Race Car!
So glad we did this book for book club! And thank you to the anonymous commentator who reminded me of it. I read this book as a kid and loooooooooooved it, and by golly it holds up! Not deep or anything, but super super fun!
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Scarlett Pimpernel! Romantic, Adventure, Period Drama, AND Interesting Ethical Issues! Discussion Sunday October 28th
It’s all our favorite things! And it’s sort of appropriate for Halloween weekend? Because it’s about disguises and stuff.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Scarlett Pimpernel or Dracula????
Yes! It is book club time again! And I am suggesting two of my FAVORITE books. Which are also a bit old-fashioned and out of date and easy to find for cheap or free. All the best things!
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ponniyin Selvam Book 1 First Half
This is a very confusing series! I read the newest translation of Book 1, then started an older translation of Book 2 and went “wait, this doesn’t seem like it makes sense”, went back to another translation of Book 1 and found a whoooooooooooooole other part of the book! So I am calling this post “First Half” and trying to cover all my bases.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ponniyin Selvan Vol. 1 Fresh Floods! Discussion Sunday May 21!!!!
Woot! BOOK CLUB!!! I picked Ponniyin Selvan because I’ve almost finished the first volume, it’s very fun, the movies are great, and it’s on topic for the blog. Oh, and the English translations are pretty readily available, at least digital copies (physical you may have to ship from far away).
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Should We Start Again? If So, What to Read?
It’s summer! I feel like reading! More specifically, I feel like sitting on my glider in my front yard watching the clover grow and reading. And the best kind of reading is reading where we talk about it later!
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Kim! Final Section! Chapter 11 through 15!
Yaaaaaay, the really truly beautiful ending! One of the greatest moments in English writing to describe humanism and love and all good things. If you have read the whole book, I recommend skipping to this discussion, and then going back to the other two, because really the ending dominates all.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Kim! The Middle Bit! Chapter 6 Through 10!
Woot, some of you are actually promising to try re-reading and following along with me! So we will see if this post gets comments. Even if it doesn’t, I am still happy because I just love talking about this book.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Kim! By Kipling! First 5 Chapters!
This may just be me talking to myself, but I don’t care. I love love love this book, and I know it is Orientalist, but it’s also loving and well-written and a vision of India from someone who actually lived in India, and loved India, during that time period.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Next Sunday, the First 5 Chapters of Kipling’s Kim!!!!
Reminder! Book Club! Get your copies now and read the first 5 chapters of Kim. I promise, you will like it.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club November 13th: Kipling’s Kim! A Book About India by a Man Who Loved India, and Also the British, 5 Chapters at a Time!
I have been considering doing this book for DCIB Book Club for ages. I’ve avoided it because a) Kipling was a colonist, and b) the book is slightly long for a book club pick. But I’ve decided we are smart enough to deal with the complications of Kipling’s relationship to India, and I’ll just break it into 3 parts.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Rilla of Ingleside, What Does it Mean to Write the Rough Draft of History?
I have a terrible feeling none of you listened to me and read this book (who hadn’t read it already). So I’m gonna say again, READ IT! I just re-read it for this post, and it is good as I remember, and as unique. It’s a fascinating true-feeling document of a very specific time and place and people.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Rainbow Valley, Book of Terrible Adults and Wonderful Children
The last two Anne books! Which are also the two I was most looking forward to discussing. Please please read just these two, even if you don’t read any of the others. This one is the childhood story of a gang of children, and the next one tells what happens to those children when they grow up. They are very different from anything else Montgomery wrote, and pretty different from anything I have ever read by anyone else either.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne of Ingleside! A Bunch of Short Stories of Varying Quality, and Anne Makes Mistakes!
Well, I had to stay up almost to midnight but I finished it! The problem is, I enjoy these books so much that I keep putting them off as a special treat for the weekend. And then I have so much to do on weekends that I finish them late. Anyway, I’m starting Rainbow Valley TOMORROW! It makes me happy, why not read it right away?
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne’s House of Dreams, a New Trilogy Starts
Woot, another Anne book! Which has absolutely no harem-scarem Anne hijinks at all. In fact, she barely leaves her house, and doesn’t interact with the wider community at all. What’s that about?
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne of Windy Poplars, Best Characters and Worst Plot
I just had the loveliest morning finishing this book. I put it off partly because I was super busy this week (this was Week of Getting Yards Ready for Spring), but also because I remembered it being kind of dull. Not at all! So many fun little stories in there once the book really gets going.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne of the Island! My Favorite Anne Book
I am SO EXCITED to talk about this one. I remembered it has Ruby Gillis, but I forgot it also has the John Douglas-Janet Sweet romance. Either of these sections on their own would make it one of the most thought provoking Anne books, but the two together, plus Anne’s own maturing idea of romance, plus Phillipa Gordon’s romance and character, make it just a feast for discussion.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne of Avonlea, the Middle Book in a Trilogy!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay, another Anne book to discuss! And we have so many left to go! This is just delightful for me, I hope we don’t run out of things to discuss.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Anne of Green Gables! The First Book in the Series, the First Sunday of Our Series!
Don’t worry, the discussion questions are going to be very general, so even if the last time you read the book straight through was years ago, you can still contribute. Personally, I was just going to sort of skim, and then I ended up sitting down and reading and crying for 2 hours straight yesterday and forgot to eat lunch. Basically the same as the first time I read it
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: All the Anne Books!!!! Week By Week!!!!
I have a Grand Plan!!! I am excited! And I hope at least some of you will join me on my journey. Or part of my journey. Anyway, before I go to Prince Edward Island with my Mom in July, I have to re-read all the Anne books. And I thought “why not use the blog to inspire me?”
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Why I Don’t Feel Like Re-Reading “The Viscount Who Loved Me”
Weird book club post, a post about a book you may be reading but I don’t want to re-read and why I don’t want to re-read it.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Bridgerton 2! The Viscount Who Loved Me. Get SEXY!
I’m not gonna read this one with you probably, I read it like 5 years ago. So y’all will remember it better than me! That will be fun. Anyway, all the books are very well-written romance novels. Meaning, actual 3 dimensional characters, fun dialogue, and smoking sex scenes. Not meaning, actual deep novel questions.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club reminder! Next Sunday, Just Jennifer, WWII Children’s Book/Young Romance!
This is just a reminder, next Sunday, we are discussing an obscure children’s book that I personally quite like and also think you all would find it a fun light quick read. We all have graduate degrees (mostly)! We should be able to read a 100 page children’s book!
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