Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Final (?! ) Revised Schedule

[Richard Ryan]

Hosts/Assembled Listers!  This, it would appear, is our final schedule - please advise only if it no longer works for you!



Richard Sept 15th - 28th Chapters 1-4
Bekah Sept 29th - Oct 12th  Chapters 5-8
David [Morris] Oct 13th - Oct 26th Chapter 9-12
Mark Oct 27th - Nov 9th Chapters 13-16
Lawrence Nov 10th - Nov 23rd  Chapters 17-20


--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>, "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>, "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 12:51 PM
> I do plan to be alive and not much more mentally
> deteriorated by my hosting time. 
> 
> MK
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Richard Ryan
> <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read -
> Revised Schedule
> > To: "David Morris"
> <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>,
> "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 2:17 PM
> > 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
> > >
> > >