ANNOUNCING THE COMMUNITY-WIDE READTHROUGH

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!

Based on popular reaction, we're doing it: a readthrough of all three books, in order. By my count we have about 8 weeks, which boils down to 6ish chapters a week, so we'd better get crackin'!

Here's how this will work: Every Friday, the person in charge of that week will post a short guide, with a few questions to start the discussion, and then we can babble away in the comments. The goal is to hearken back to the early days of the comm, where we dissected anything and everything we came across; don't be afraid to talk about something that might have been mentioned before, because we're always game for conversation!

At the end of this post I'll do a tentative reading guide, so if people want to claim weeks to lead discussion, they may. I'll do this week's, and then after that we can pass it around; if more than one people want the same day (I apologize for the fact that there are only eight), we can work something out. But first! The most important part!

Your assignment for this week: The Thief, chapters 1-7
Readaloud? Yes, for chapters 1, 3, and 7.

(I, for one, find the readaloud a great way to do something else with my hands while getting a chapter done. If you've signed up for a chapter in one of the later sections, this is the perfect opportunity to get it done! :-D)

The Plan
Week 1, 1/17-1/22: TT, 1-7, led by Jade
Week 2, 1/23-1/29: TT, 8-12, led by ?
Week 3, 1/30-2/5: QoA, 1-7, led by avian_xj
Week 4, 2/6-2/12: QoA, 8-13, led by ilysia_039
Week 5, 2/13-2/19: QoA, 14-21, led by Jade
Week 6, 2/20-2/26: KoA, Prologue-5, led by sgwordy
Week 7, 2/27-3/5: KoA, 6-10, led by TA and PR
Week 8, 3/6-3/12: KoA, 11-14, led by Jade

There's also an option for
Week 9, 3/13-3/19: Thief! and Eddis Short Story, if we want. :-)

I look forward to rereading the books with all of you! See you Friday.



p.s. on a totally different note, in case y'all haven't heard about it, help_haiti is a community doing a fandom auction in which fanworks are exchanged for donations to charities dedicated to helping the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti. I know we have a lot of talented people involved in a lot of different fandoms here, and so if anyone wants to shop or make offerings, it's a great place to go help. The first auction closes on the 20th, but they'll be doing another later this season. Just a thought!

p.p.s. a thought that occurred to me from reading sartorias's post: what can we do to help make the release of CoK Megan's best release yet? Brainstorm, we should have one.

Comments

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

Excellent! *runs to pile of books, begins to dig feverishly* This is going to be absolutely fantastic, and a great way to countdown for CoK.

*does happy dance*

I wonder if I might make a claim on leading the discussion in Week 4? That would be smashing.