Vote on a May Date for The Princess Bride

Thanks for the fantastic chat on Divergent, after a bit of a hiatus.  It was great to be able to compare the book to the movie.  Will anyone be reading the rest of the series (besides those who've already finished it)?

Next up is the critically acclaimed tour de force The Princess Bride!  I am assuming we want to read the book in advance, but watch the movie concurrently with our chat--comment if you had something else in mind.

Vote for our May date to chat here:

https://doodle.com/5ck52ebcgg8zfhma

Note: one of the dates coincide with when a certain someone is in San Francisco, which could make the chat a little less virtual.  Another is on that certain someone's birthday, which might not work at all, or could really excite her, given her passion for this book/movie.  And, I threw in some times on Memorial Day, in case people get it off and are available to chat then.

Warning: this is a kissing book.  ;-)

Divergent Chat: 4/19, Noon Pacific

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

Thanks to everyone for filling out the Doodle poll.  It looks like our best date and time is Saturday, April 19th at noon Pacific.  We'll meet in our chatroom to discuss the book and the movie, so don't forget to finish reading and go see the movie!

P.S. - The movie website has an aptitude test.  Leave your results in the comments!

Vote on an April Date to Discuss Divergent

Hey, gang!  Long time, no chat.

During our last chat, we had discussed reading Divergent as our next book/movie combination.  If that still sounds good to folks, let's go ahead and pick an April date by voting here:

http://doodle.com/nveeu9pivauh24e6

Keep in mind that those dates include Palm Sunday and Easter weekend, if you have any family or church conflicts.

The movie comes out March 21st.  Let's all make sure we both read the book and watch the movie before the chat!

A Christmas Carol - Chat TODAY

Chat today at 3PM EST (12PM PST) in the usual spot, our chatroom.

Reminder we are discussing A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

"Before our chat, we will watch An American Christmas Carol (1978), in which Henry Winkler is Benedict Slade, "a heartless finance company president in Depression era New England."

Then, during our chat, we will concurrently watch Scrooge (1935), which is the first sound version of the film adaptation, starring Seymour Hicks, who played the title role many times on stage and in an earlier silent film version."

We will also decide our next book, so stay tuned.

Bah Humbug

Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in our Ender's Game chat!  As always, a transcript is available in our chatroom.

To get into the holiday spirit, our next book/movie combination will be A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  It's more of a novella, really, so it should be a pretty fast read.  In addition to reading the book, we will be watching not one, but two movie adaptations!  There were simply too many from which to choose.

Before our chat, we will watch An American Christmas Carol (1978), in which Henry Winkler is Benedict Slade, "a heartless finance company president in Depression era New England."

Then, during our chat, we will concurrently watch Scrooge (1935), which is the first sound version of the film adaptation, starring Seymour Hicks, who played the title role many times on stage and in an earlier silent film version.

We'll check in next week to figure out a time to schedule our chat, but we're tentatively looking at the weekend of December 20 - 22.

Merry Christmas!

Ender's Game Chat Saturday

We're all set for a chat on Saturday, at 9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern. Should be interesting to compare the book to the recently released movie! Talk to you all tomorrow and remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Ender's Game

Thanks to those who made it to the Emma/Clueless chat yesterday. We had a lot of fun comparing/contrasting the early 19th century British text with the late 20th century teen film.

Next up in our queue is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

The book is about 350 pages of young adult text, so it will read much faster than the lovely, verbose, Jane Austen.

If we want time to wrap up the year with a Christmas themed text, for example A Christmas Carol, it is important that we get this book wrapped up in the month of November. This means just about three weeks to read the book and watch the movie (which is now in wide release at theaters nationwide).

This will have to be a single book/movie chat, following our viewing the movie independently at the theatre.

When are we available this month to chat? The last weekend of November is Thanksgiving, so that might be tricky planning, but I know I will be in town and easily available to squeeze in a 1-1.5 hour chat.