CoL49 Group Reading

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 23:16:48 UTC 2024


I would like to suggest that we keep chapter divisions noted for context,
and in case particular book page numbers don’t match

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:00 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Divide each CHAPTER (adjust to your book) into sections of about 5 pages
> gives the following:
>
> Pages: 9-183 = 174 total pages.
>
> 174 pages/5= 35 segments +/-
>
> Chapter 1: 9-22 (13 pages - 2 sections)
>
> Chapter 2: 23-43 (20 pages - 4 sections)
>
> Chapter 3: 44-80 (36 pages - 7 sections)
>
> So, if we want to make it about 5 pages per week (divide chapters into
> nearest equal #) starting April 30, we get the following start:
>
> CHAPTER 1:
>
> 4/29:  p9-15.   JK
>
> 5/6:  p16-22.   Mark
>
> CHAPTER 2:
>
> 5/13:  p23-29. David
>
> 5/20:  p30-35
>
> 5/27:  p36-43
>
> CHAPTER 3:
>
> 6/3:  p44-50
>
> 6/10:  p51-56
>
> 6/17:  p57-64
>
> 6/24:  p65-73
>
> 7/1:   p74-80
>
> CHAPTER 4:
>
> 7/8:  p81- (etc)
>
>
> Volunteers for ALL of these slots should be filled before we start, or
> this read is bound to fail FAST.  Also, it might be better to *speed up the
> pace* (10 pages per week?), or people are likely to drop out from boredom.
>


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