It‘s here!! #InfiniteJest
It‘s here!! #InfiniteJest
I got the idea for this post when I met up with my Nashville Littens earlier this year. @britt_brooke mentioned doing an Infinite Jest buddy read and it got me to thinking about how big books can be challenging. So thanks to her and the rest of the cool women that day for all the great book talk. We need to have another #nashvillemeetup soon!
https://bookriot.com/2018/03/12/how-to-tackle-giant-books/
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I followed the #infinitejestbuddyread with interest last year, cheering on participants from the cheap seats. On CBC‘s The Next Chapter, Randy Boyagoda spent an entertaining 12 minutes explaining to Shelagh Rogers why it‘s the greatest Canadian novel written by an American. You can listen here: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-next-chapter/segment/15521919
Sooo here I am again for the third time and I‘m still certain I haven‘t finished reading this book 🙈 this time through I set the book out chronologically and anyone wanting to re-read it a different way I highly recommend this it made me notice a load of things I‘d previously missed but in short I adore this book and am certain withdrawal pangs will kick in shortly 😂
The funniest, most intelligent and challenging book I‘ve ever read! I just want to spend my days reading about on different Internet forums. Thanks @JenP - shadowing your #infinitejestbuddyread made the experience much easier and more fun!
I finished!
I started this with the @Jess7 #infinitejestbuddyread (was it Jess?- it seems like a decade since we started it) but fell off the wagon. After putting it aside for several weeks, I came up with a monthly page goal in order to finish by the end of the year.
I can't say I would recommend it to anyone but I suppose it depends on the person. There were parts that I loved and could have read a whole book about. I will miss the characters.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. #Infinitejestbuddyread, #Infintejest. @JenP
@JenP My sweatshirt arrived today so of course I had to put it on! Thanks so much! 😍😍😍 #infinitejestbuddyread
And the winner of the sweatshirt is...
@britt_brooke Congrats! You were randomly selected to win the final prize.
Congrats to everyone who finished the #infinitejestbuddyread this spring! Finishing the book is really its own reward. I had a blast reading with all of you. Maybe another buddy read in the fall? What would you want to read?