presidents: Are you looking for a new book to read? We’re starting on Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin” over at Read Hard! and we’ll be reading this for two weeks. This is an invitation to come join us, basically! It looks pretty quiet over there right now, but we have over 1,300 members (insane, right?) but we could do with a lot more, especially if you are interested in discourse, meeting new people, and flailing over good books. This one looks particularly promising. I have been a fan of Atwood’s poetry since I started college, maybe, but I’ve only read one novel of hers so far (“The Penelopiad” — it’s great, but it’s apparently one of her “lesser” novels, so it must mean that this one is explosive). “The Blind Assassin” is a novel-within-a-novel, and I don’t know what that means, exactly, right now, but I’m adding this to my October reading pile, because I need to scrape together a little bit of dignity after declaring that in the same pile, I have a book called “The Treasure Map of Boys.” (To be fair, though, E. Lockhart writes excellent young adult fiction. But I am 22, so maybe my argument is invalid.) Anyway, again! We’ll be reading “The Blind Assassin” until October 14th. Get your copies now! I will try to finish this one quickly so I can lend it to someone who is a) interested, and b) my friend. :) I really want to join in on this one but ack, I’m such a slacker of a reader, not to mention SLOW. Noticed this book is 500+ pages, I cannot fathom reading all of it in 9 days. But we’ll see… I’ve been quite bored lately, so I just might go out and get a library card and pick this up. :) I’ve been wanting to ask, after you read it, do you have discussions or something of the like?

presidents:

Are you looking for a new book to read? We’re starting on Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin” over at Read Hard! and we’ll be reading this for two weeks. This is an invitation to come join us, basically! It looks pretty quiet over there right now, but we have over 1,300 members (insane, right?) but we could do with a lot more, especially if you are interested in discourse, meeting new people, and flailing over good books.

This one looks particularly promising. I have been a fan of Atwood’s poetry since I started college, maybe, but I’ve only read one novel of hers so far (“The Penelopiad” — it’s great, but it’s apparently one of her “lesser” novels, so it must mean that this one is explosive).

“The Blind Assassin” is a novel-within-a-novel, and I don’t know what that means, exactly, right now, but I’m adding this to my October reading pile, because I need to scrape together a little bit of dignity after declaring that in the same pile, I have a book called “The Treasure Map of Boys.” (To be fair, though, E. Lockhart writes excellent young adult fiction. But I am 22, so maybe my argument is invalid.)

Anyway, again! We’ll be reading “The Blind Assassin” until October 14th. Get your copies now! I will try to finish this one quickly so I can lend it to someone who is a) interested, and b) my friend.

:)

I really want to join in on this one but ack, I’m such a slacker of a reader, not to mention SLOW. Noticed this book is 500+ pages, I cannot fathom reading all of it in 9 days. But we’ll see… I’ve been quite bored lately, so I just might go out and get a library card and pick this up. :)

I’ve been wanting to ask, after you read it, do you have discussions or something of the like?

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