Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 13:52:26 CDT 2008
That would be fine with me.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you David.
>
> Fellow hosters - Lawrence (who I believe originally suggested TMoP for the
> group read) can't perform his hosting duties during the Oct 13 - Oct 26th
> time slot.
>
> David, would you be OK switching slots with Larwrence?
>
>
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule
> To: "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>, "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 11:21 AM
>
> 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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