Hi everyone!
I'm really excited Lethargarians is back in business. So excited, in fact, that I'm directly contradicting an email I sent to Karen about 20 seconds ago saying that I wasn't going to post until next week. I hope you all have had a rich literary year! I'm curious what you lot read, whether for classes or for fun. Did you find yourselves able to make time for books? I found that the only times I read for fun at Stanford were during my coterm year, when I deliberately set aside time, and after I wrote my thesis senior year. The best thing that happened spring quarter senior year was spending hours and hours on the Columbae porch reading. I hope you all succeeded better than I did at reading while in school.
Anyway. I'm going to be brief here. Some quick thoughts that I'd like to explore further: literary tourism (by which I mean Harry Potter tourism), sad books, "works of genius", rereading. Discuss. I'm going to formulate some ideas and discuss later, but I'd like to hear what those words elicit in you guys, too. And, can we do a blogosphere book club? Read a book in common and discuss? Alongside everyone's regular contributions, of course. Any suggestions?
And finally, for those of you in the Bay Area, Strangers with Candy will be resuming sometime this summer. I think we might be starting with "The Scarlet Letter", for which I apologize in advance. But we definitely want people to participate, even if it's not for 10th grade English classics. Let me know if you're around and interested! Books! Candy! Strangers (hopefully)!
happy reading and happy summer!
Alyssa
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Rebirth!
Dear Lethargarians,
Our dear bookblog has long been silent. Granted, the catchphrase on the left panel says that it is a summer blog, so we need not feel terribly guilty. But it will soon officially be summer, and with it should come some more stellar literary rambles!
I know many of you are on vacation right now (as I will soon be), so posting/communication may be spotty at best. But vacation=beach/forest/travel reads!
What will you read this summer?
Alyssa suggested an HP marathon, which is a very enticing proposal. But reading through old entries, I found that the last gazillion posts were about Harry Potter. I know we are all obsessed, but should we try to branch out? With so many amazing books out there (how many times have you said, "Oh, I want to read that!" at the bookstore and never actually gotten around to reading the books), I feel like I really need to read something new this summer.
After all, we are all of us facing new and bewildering futures in the Real World--I challenge us to make the leap in our literary lives as well!
What say you, Lethargarians?
xoxo,
Karen
Confession: Jane Austen's Persuasion is lying open on my bed right now. But I've only read it once before!
Our dear bookblog has long been silent. Granted, the catchphrase on the left panel says that it is a summer blog, so we need not feel terribly guilty. But it will soon officially be summer, and with it should come some more stellar literary rambles!
I know many of you are on vacation right now (as I will soon be), so posting/communication may be spotty at best. But vacation=beach/forest/travel reads!
What will you read this summer?
Alyssa suggested an HP marathon, which is a very enticing proposal. But reading through old entries, I found that the last gazillion posts were about Harry Potter. I know we are all obsessed, but should we try to branch out? With so many amazing books out there (how many times have you said, "Oh, I want to read that!" at the bookstore and never actually gotten around to reading the books), I feel like I really need to read something new this summer.
After all, we are all of us facing new and bewildering futures in the Real World--I challenge us to make the leap in our literary lives as well!
What say you, Lethargarians?
xoxo,
Karen
Confession: Jane Austen's Persuasion is lying open on my bed right now. But I've only read it once before!
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