The Hobbit

It is already the end of January, when did that happen?

Is anyone interested and available for a February 4, 7:30 pm PST discussion?

We will focus on just the first third of the book, since that is what is covered in the first movie. We we discuss anything from casting choices, to the visual representation of the book, to just about anything you liked, disliked, or had no feelings about.

Let me know if you are interested. We will be using a new chat this time around, I have set up a chatango room for the club, check it out at http://atbooksend.chatango.com.

2013 - Books and Movies

Since we had a lot of fun last year reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and then watching the film together, this year I am proposing we do a books with movies theme.

It can be new movies releasing this year, or books that have long had a film adaptation. This will allow us to pick from a variety of genres, and will give us more to discuss as we will have a film and book to critique/analyze. We might not be able to watch together all the movies, as we did with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, since we are all geographically spread, we will set a date ahead of time to either watch the film together, or watch the movie by so that we can discuss.

I know it is already into January, but this month I am reading The Hobbit. Finally. Anyone interested is welcome to join me. Even if you haven't read it, if you have seen the movie, you will have much to contribute to the discussion later this month.

Let me know if you are interested. We can also start throwing around ideas now as to February's book/film choice.

Book Sixteen: A Million Suns

Just a reminder, book sixteen was decided on late last month and it is A Million Suns by Beth Revis. It is the second book in the trilogy we began last year with Across the Universe. If you didn't read the first book (or you have really bad memory like myself) you can take a look at our chat discussion here.

I know not everyone has been able to get their hands on a copy, so let's discuss where we are at and decide on a chat date.

Never Let Me Go

Reminder: Book chat today at 5:30pm.

Here is a video of the song "Never Let Me Go" from the film adaptation of the book.

Never Let Go chat details and book sixteen discussion

Alright, so I actually can not make the chat Sunday at 4pm as I have a conflict until 5pm, but if we push it back to 5pm or 530pm I can probably make most of it. If 4 works better for everyone else involved in the chat, then let's not mess with the time. Let me know in the comments.

As for book sixteen, go ahead and field your choices in the comments and we'll begin voting on Friday.

Never Let Me Go

If you plan to participate in the chat for Never Let Me Go, please list your preferred time and date for the chat. If this week does not work, we might try next week so please list your availability for both.

Thanks.

Book Fifteen - Never Let Me Go

Looks like we will be reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro for the month of April. It is a pretty short book (less than 300 pages) so we should be able to get through it pretty quickly and I'd like to plan for a chat the weekend of the 20-22.

Let me know your availability.