We are reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin in April.
Please post your comments and questions in this thread.
We are reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin in April.
Please post your comments and questions in this thread.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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My library does not have the book but have placed an order. Should get it in a week's time.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I just started reading the book
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
In the mean time you can still access the book in Google Books, if you'd like.Originally Posted by Scheherazade
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jiw...sec=frontcover
I guess I need to reread the "Ponteliers" again.
Nice book though. I'm looking forward for some discussions.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'll read it. I never have, and I've been meaning to for years. It should be enlightening for me to discuss it.
I did read it awhile ago and liked it, but I'm not sure why really. It will be fun to revisit it and delve into it a little more. From what I remember, I would not have classified it as a Novel of Manners. It will be fun to explore that avenue.
"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare." W.H. Davies
Not having read much of it yet, I can't really say, but it doesn't seem like a Novel of Manners to me. Still, I like what I've read, and I agree, Lynne, it should be very interesting to discuss.
This is something I've wanted to read for ages. I will join in if I can. I have a copy at work, but we're off for 2 weeks now for Easter. I may try to read it online.
I have two copies, I believe - both are accompanied by short stories by the author; happen to find my second copy on the freeby shelf at the library. At any rate, I read this book a number of years ago. I think probably it was around the same time Lynne read it, since we discussed it briefly. I too, need a refresher reading. I will tackle it this coming week. It is only about 100 pages in my paperback, but there also seems to be some good notes in the introduction, which I will be interested in reading. Maybe, as a suggestion, we could post some parts of the first chapter or so of the book and work through it systematically. This way we can discuss it as we are reading it. What does everyone think of the idea? We do this with the Lawrence short story thread and it works quite effectively.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Since books are longer than short stories, I like the idea of the book discussions being more open and not as strcutrued.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I like that, too. People read at such vastly different speeds and some have more time to read than others, we'll probably all be at different places in the book.
True, there is that time limit of one month and we all do read at different speeds. We don't have to adhere specifically, to that one month margin though; no discussion threads actually end forever. I was just thinking back to the 'successful' discussions for monthly book reads and I think the best ones have been ones where we took the chapters systematically; but then again, they did last longer than a month in actuality. We did this more so when discussing "To the Lighthouse", "A Tale of Two Cities", "Women in Love" and many others - but I can't think of any of those, that did not exceed a month's time. The thing is if someone does mention the ending during the early parts of the discussion (month), and this book "The Awakening" would be a good example, then it gives away a great deal and others might give up on their reading. Good idea to put SPOILER on any posts that do reveal the ending of the novel.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Thanks for the advice, Janine.I can go with whatever format everyone else likes.
Well, I read this about a year and a half ago (at least I think it was that long ago). I am not understanding the "Manners" category either, but then again, when I think about some of the "events" that take place in the story, I suppose you could list it under that category. I liked it. I won't say too much about anything until people are able to read more of the story and the discussion gets more involved. I don't want to spoil anything for anybody.
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