Welcome to the Reading Buddies headquarters! Here you’ll find the current schedule, plus information about Reading Buddies and a place to suggest future reads. You can also read my initial Reading Buddies post or my July 2011 updates post.
Reading Buddies now has a Goodreads group to facilitate discussions; please feel free to join! You can also sign up for monthly email reminders about the upcoming reads.
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Reading Schedule
Here are both the current reading schedule and links to any Erin Reads posts pertaining to the current books. For past reads, please see the Reading Buddies archives.
Currently Reading (December):
Formal Read: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (discussion post: 12/16; wrap-up post: 12/30; Goodreads discussion thread)
Informal Read: none at the moment
January: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
February: Voting is now in progress, please see the poll in the sidebar!
About Reading Buddies
In January of 2011, I asked Erin Reads readers if anyone would like to help me tackle my TBR list and accomplish my 2011 reading goals by reading books from my list with me. The response was enthusiastic, and Reading Buddies was born.
Reading Buddies has two parts. One way to participate in Reading Buddies is informally, to read a book together whenever we both have time. Maybe it’s a book we’ve had on our TBRs forever and need an extra push to read; maybe it’s a scary tome we’d like to read with someone else; maybe one of us is reading a book that looks really intriguing to the other one. You email me, or I’ll email you, and we’ll set something really informal up.
The second way to participate is to join me in reading any of the books that appeal to you from the list above. These are the titles readers requested most frequently, and I’ve turned them into laid back group reads. These are NOT formal readalongs! There are no scheduled check-ins and no official discussion questions. Read at your own speed. Post as often or seldom as you’d like. You don’t have to have a blog to participate; I’m happy to discuss via email. I do my best to keep track of who’s participating so we can all discuss, but you’re certainly not obligated to join in.
There’s no official book-by-book button, but if you’d like something, feel free to use the Reading Buddies button above.
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Join In
If you’d like to coordinate your reading for any of the books above with mine, just let me know so I’ll know to watch for your post(s) about the book(s). Then, when the month comes around, just read the book — that’s it!
Books are chosen by poll two months before they are read. So, in choosing a book for October, I will post a poll for the month of August, then announce the winner at the beginning of September, giving participants a month to track down a copy of the book and so forth.
I post about Reading Buddies on Fridays. Each formal read gets two posts: a midway post (two weeks before the wrap-up) and a wrap-up post (the last Friday of the month). Discussion of the book is welcome in the comments of both posts, and each wrap-up post includes a Mr. Linky so participants can link to their final reviews.
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Suggest a Book
If you’d like to read a book together, either one-on-one or maybe as a monthly book, here’s what you can do:
- Take a look at my 2011 reading goals list and/or my Classics Reclamation Project list.
- Figure out which books from those lists you might like to read together, or suggest another title that would fit.
- Fill out the sign-up form and I’ll be in touch!
Archives
February 2011:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (discussion | wrap-up)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (discussion | wrap-up)
March 2011:
The Appointment by Herta Müller (discussion | wrap-up)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (discussion | wrap-up)
April 2011:
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (discussion | wrap-up)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (discussion | wrap-up)
May 2011:
Animal Farm by George Orwell (discussion | wrap-up)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (discussion | wrap-up)
June 2011:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (discussion | wrap-up)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (discussion | wrap-up)
July 2011:
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (discussion | wrap-up)
August 2011:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (discussion | wrap-up)
September 2011:
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (discussion | wrap-up)
October 2011:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (discussion | wrap-up)
November 2011:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (discussion | wrap-up)
