We are back, everyone! The Write Conscious Book Club is once again the most hardcore and active book club online. For May, we are reading 10 transformative novels, and I expect that number to be 12-15 in June/July when I am off from work for summer break.
I don’t care if you are a newbie reader or a scholar; if you want to read the best books of all time, this club is a place not just to get accountability to finish them but to explore your ideas with others and cement them in your memory forever.
Something new I am doing for all books is releasing an hour-long breakdown of the novels 3-5 days before the calls, so expect a ton of literature content on the Substack for May.
I’ve also strategically placed the calls on Saturday mornings, so everyone should be able to join, even to just listen or put in a quick word. I don’t mind if you lurk as you’re at your kid’s soccer game, at work, commuting, or doing whatever. If you can’t say anything, that’s fine, but if you can find a minute to talk about your feelings surrounding the book, we would love to hear you out!
All book club calls will be recorded and uploaded the day they are filmed.
So, here is the schedule for the month! I would love to see you in the calls or read your thoughts in the comments if you can’t make it :)
May 3rd - Infinite Jest Pt. 1 - 9 AM
May 10th - Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - Full Book 9 AM
May 17th - Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky - Full Book 9-9:45 AM
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - Full Book - 9:50 - 10:30 AM
May 23rd - Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima - Full Book - 8 AM
May 24th - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Full Book - 9 AM
The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon - Full Book - 10 AM
May 30th - Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy - 5 PM
May 31st - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - 9 AM - Full Book
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - 10 AM - Full book
This will be followed up by a discussion of Part 1 of Joesph Frank’s biography on Dostoevsky
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