Since I'm the person who has invited a few more people to join our bookclub, I think some introductions are in order. Shani Fisher is my good friend I've made at Houghton. She lives in New York and works as an editor. Edwin Hill is another dear friend from Houghton; he lives in Boston (Somerville, specifically) and works on the very same floor that I do as a marketing manager. Lauren is my friend here at Houghton, my right-hand woman, the marketing associate for the history team.
Edwin and I were having lunch one day at the end of September when this idea of reading a big book together came about. Edwin's dad has a reading group that has read a bunch of "the classics" together. We were talking about how when fall comes whether it's the change in weather or the excited feeling in the air of going back to school, we like to have a big book to chew on. And so we decided to read WAP. Shani came to mind right away because she loves to read and is a good friend of ours. Lauren and I had a good time talking about Anna Karenina this summer, and this seemed like something she'd be interested in.
On to the other characters: Liz is Liz McMahon, my friend, and also my friend Allison's partner. Liz and Allison live about a mile from me here in Roslindale. Melissa is Melissa Caughlin, my friend who lives in Chicago. We discovered each other when we were both working as marketing managers at McGraw-Hill. She now works for Rand McNally. I've read books with Melissa and Shani before, and Liz and I trade books back and forth.
Have you started reading yet? I have to admit I read quite a lot when I was away, a bit more than halfway through, and am having a great time.
Liz pointed out in her comment from another post that the NYTimes is copying us (no surprise) in honor of the new translation. Here's a link to an essay by Richard Pevear, one half of the celebrated translating team: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Pevear-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
And here's a link to the vastly inferior NYTimes book club (reading a part a week?!?): http://readingroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
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And I took the liberty of inviting a friend to the group - Ann Mueller is my friend from college, and now a friend of Katherine's as well. Ann and I share books all the time.
EXCELLENT GROUP!!! Welcome!! I don't want anyone to have any pressure from Katherine "I took a few weeks off and read half the book" Bates and feel like you have to speed ahead. I'm only on chapter 11 of Part 1 and I'm proud of it!! If the book wasn't so heavy (weight) I would maybe be able to carry it around and read it on the go. . .I'm thinking about cutting the book apart. I'm not sure how those college kids lug around those books we produce.
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