So...when do we tear the shrinkwrap off the IV group read?

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks (a bunch!) to an anonymous benefactor (I've apparently had a
copy for days now, I just didn't know it, it was handed to me last
night having been left @ a frequent haunt I've haunted somewhat less
frequently of late, having been putting in extra graveyard shifts
since being released from hospitalization), I have not yet begun to
finish annotating the title, dustjacket, epigraph, 1st chapter, et al.
...

So ...

I propose that, once we come to some sort of consensus (the only kind
we ever really come to ...) on a start date, we take a chapter @ a
time, a week per chapter, with maybe a fortnight or so for the opening
salvo (meaning, I'll be happy to kick it off as well as coordinate,
but, as always, will defer to anyone even more eager to do so, but may
take a running head start, given the attention one can generally pay
alone to everything BEFORE the 1st page, and certainly can here), as
well as, of course, the usual open-ended (i.e., for bloody ever)
wrap-up.  Given breaks/extended periods for, say, yr intervening
year-end/year-beginning holidays et al., that'll give us something to
concentrate on here for at least a half a year or so.

So let me know.  That sound reasonable?  I'll pick up any unclaimed
ch.'s along the way, if need be (AND I'll make an extra special effort
not to let my life, such as it is, interfere as much as it's tended to
in the past), though will of course appreciate any efforts to
alleviate such eventualities (if not quite inevitabilities).  For my
part, I'm thinking, somewhere ca. the opening of October, if not
earlier, but the'd give us all a chance to get through (I simply
stayed up all night, so ...) and think upon the novel (a mere 369
pages!), not to mention kick our or our offsprings' school years et
al.  Again, let me know.  Thanks!  A bunch!