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This week we read section 1. The Theater. This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time. After going through this short section, what are your thoughts so far? - Did you have any prior knowledge of this book or the HBO adaptation before we started? - What do you think of Jeevan - What are your predictions for the next section? Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods. Happy Reading.
BOOK CLUB SEASON 3: Today we wrapped up Ice Planet Barbarians and overall its been a positive experience and a nice break after 11/22/63. Books in the running today: - Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird - Manacled - Fanfic - Last Days by Adam Neville After rolling a D4 we landed on 1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel The book is broken down into Sections and chapters. Chapters are very short, so the group has decided to do it as 1 section per week. 9 sections total. We may go to 2 sections a week depending on how it goes. Happy reading.
**Week 7: Americana** This week we are reading and discussing chapter 14 and 15.
**Week 5-6: Living in the Past** We will not be meeting on Sunday 8/7/2023 due to most of us being busy with travel but we are planning on meeting the next Sunday 8/14/2023. With that, the group has agreed that our next reading selection is all of Part 3, chapters 9-13. This post will serve as a backup on-going discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time. Some discussion questions to get started: - Do you think Jake did the right thing in this first trip to 1958 - Will Jakes cell-phone in the lake come up again? (it is a Nokia after all) - Is the past going to get more obturate the longer he stays there? - did he cause any massive changed in 2011? Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods. Happy Reading.
**Week 4: The Past is Obdurate.** This is a catchup post for the community. I forgot to make a the week 3 post and the week 4 post is being made after the discussion. I will post the next discussion this week. Questions for this week: - Did you suspect No Suspenders to be involved? - How did you feel about Dunning's choice of weapon? - How will Harry be different in 2011? - Did you make the connection to Steven Kings IT and Derry? - Are the associations with IT working for you? Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods. Happy Reading.
**Week 2: Life Turns on a Dime.** This week we are reading and discussing chapters 3 and 4 of 11/22/63 by Steven King. Week 2 meeting will be on Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. We are considering recording our meeting sessions but we will see how that goes. It may turn in to a twitch stream. This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time. Some of our discussion questions to get started: - Did you have any preconceived notions about Steven King and his writing? - Have you read any of his previous works? - Where do you think the story is going? - What do you think of the main character? - Does anything stand out to you about the writing style? - Any particular lines that stood out to you? Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods. Happy Reading.
[@wordnerds](https://lemmy.world/c/wordnerds) On my copy of 11/22/63. Gee you don't say.
Testing how this appears for @wordnerds@lemmy.world on Mastodon.
[@wordnerds](https://lemmy.world/c/wordnerds) Does this show up for anyone else? More experimentation
[@wordnerds](https://lemmy.world/c/wordnerds) I created this lemmy community as a way to track on going activities/discussions for my friend groups new book club. Wanted to try out interacting with the page from Mastodon. Gotta educate myself on how to navigate this new federated world.
**Week 1 WELCOME** This is our first post. It will be updated with a basic summary of what was covered and serve as a backup discussion for anyone that cant make our usual Sunday meeting. The club has nominated 11/22/63 by Steven King as our first book. Our first discussion will be Sunday 7/9/2023 covering chapters 1-2. If you need a copy of the book we can provide a pdf. Happy reading. **EDIT UPDATE:** First meeting down. We covered the prologue and chapters 1-2. We have decided to stick with the Sunday 9pm meeting time. This week we will be reading chapters 3-4 and discuss this Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. That discussion will continue on the Week 2 post.
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!wordnerds@lemmy.worldWelcome to the WordNerds Book Club Community.
This community will serve as an ongoing discussion of chosen book for the club as well as any other book/media related topic members want to discuss.
Once the group finishes the selected book, we will create a new post to collect all suggestions for the next title and then use a random number generator to select the next work.
This community is under ongoing work.
This is also going to partially serve as a practice ground for us to get to grips with federated social media.