Literature Book Club Survey
A break from our normal programming
Hello Readers,
I was planning to write about The Invisible Man story from The Innocence of Father Brown this Saturday, but I decided to take a break in our normal programming and send out this survey instead. We like to take a quiet (as quiet as you can with 6 kids 8 and under) on Good Friday and Holy Saturday so I’d rather not be on my computer writing and I’d rather not fill your inboxes that day as well. Also our family has been hit with a pretty bad bout of sickness. I am trying to take the doctor’s orders to rest seriously and hopefully get better by Easter. It is one thing to be sick and feel like Holy Week (and Lent) are penitential, but it just feels offensive if it spills into Easter. So I will post about The Invisible Man AND The Wrong Shape on the Saturday after Easter (April 6th).
Instead of our normal programming I wrote up a survey to get some feedback on our year of reading together. I would appreciate any feedback you are willing to give! As always please feel free to message me if you’d like to chat more.
As always, thanks for being part of our community and reading good books together! I appreciate all your feedback as I am in the throes of planning for another year. I hope you all have a prayerful Holy Week and a celebratory Eastertide.
Enjoy your reading until we meet again!
“A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one’s age group. It comes from reading books above one.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
A Few Reminders
In Case you haven’t seen it yet here is our schedule for The Innocence of Father Brown this month. Feel free to read the whole book if you want, but also feel free to take a break from long reading assignments!
March 23rd- The Secret Garden (30 pages)- Here’s the post if you missed it!
April 6th- The Invisible Man (25 pages) AND The Wrong Shape (27 pages)
April 13th- The Sign of the Broken Sword (26 pages)
After that we have Crossing to Safety in May. I am very excited to chat about this one and maybe introduce you to a new author that I love. I will decide how I will break this one up and post a schedule in the next few weeks!
If you found your way here and are not part of an in person book club, welcome! We would love you to read along with us. But, in person literary community is a beautiful thing. So please contact me if you’d like to join or start a group!
If you are part of a group, but you’re not on our Slack page, please contact me. That is where people share thoughts and logistics for each in person group.
Book lists from previous years can be found here.
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