Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule

[David Morris]

I volunteer for the last segment.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok - so after getting some more feedback and input and another hosting volunteer (thanks Mark!) we now have a schedule of four chapters every TWO weeks.
>
> Richard Sept 15th - 28th Chapters 1-4
> Bekah Sept 29th - Oct 12th  Chapters 5-8
> Lawrence Oct 13th - Oct 26th Chapter 9-12
> Mark Oct 27th - Nov 9th Chapters 13-16
> TBD Nov 10th - Nov 23rd  Chapters 17-20
>
> I need to hear from our hosts and make sure this schedule works for them, but I hope that this is one that the rest of the list can live with.
>
> This is a schedule of about 3 pages a day - it seems a little slow to me - but it provide for the kind of very close reading that the group wants....
>
> RR
>
> --- On Wed, 9/3/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read
>> To: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>, "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 9:36 AM
>> This is essentially the pace that I suggested, except my
>> proposal was
>> to shorten the length of each section to about 25 pages per
>> week.  As
>> I said before, I think 50 pages per week is too ambitious.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Bekah
>> <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > I think I'm scheduled to host Chapters 5 - 8 (4
>> chapters).  In my version (Amazon.com)  that's pages 29
>> - 93, 65 pages.   There is an incredible amount of material
>> in those pages and I don't mind doing it as I'm
>> already familiar with it but I'd kind of like to see it
>> spread out over 2 weeks if that could be worked out.
>> >
>> > I think 2 weeks per section might be better fFor the
>> shorter sections, too, because there may be more material
>> than meets the first-level reader's eye.
>> >
>> > Bekah
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