Blurbing Book Club 2011: group reading of The Great Gatsby
project history · status: past edition (2011) · last event: milestone (2011-09-07)
In June 2011 John chose The Great Gatsby for the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club, set the first six chapters as reading with a quiz, extended the deadline to 18 July, and discussed the book in videos in July and September 2011.
Part of: Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club (2008)
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to read The Great Gatsby with him for the Blurbing Book Club (summer 2011) · John asks readers whether The Great Gatsby's portrait of wealth and the American dream is true, to discuss on Your Pants (2011) · John asks Hank and commenters whether Gatsby's quest, and their own, is heroic (2011)
About: Blurbing Book Club, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) | launched | John restarts the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club for summer with The Great Gatsby, with a purchase link in the doobly-doo. | Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) 00:01:30 |
| 2011-06-29 | rule change | John sets the first deadline of the Great Gatsby group reading: the first six chapters within two weeks, with a quiz. (playful) | THE FAULT IN OUR STARS 00:03:12 |
| 2011-07-13 | rule change | John extends the deadline for reading the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby to Monday. | ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:00:00 |
| 2011-07-18 | milestone | John posts his first chapter discussion video in the group reading, on chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. | Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1 00:00:00 |
| 2011-09-02 | milestone | Hank says John is going to make a great Gatsby video on Monday. | Tattoo Typos, Senses, Posters and Bad Movies 00:02:48 |
| 2011-09-07 | milestone | John posts his reading of The Great Gatsby from chapter two onward, without massive spoilers, after his chapter one video. | The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes 00:00:01 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — ask: John points to a purchase link (outside the US the book is probably public domain and free) and asks readers, first-time or returning, even past haters, to read Gatsby with him. — 00:01:32
- 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John: What matters is critical reading as a concrete way into hard questions — e.g. nature's indifference, expressed by white in Moby-Dick, lest you end up like Ahab — using story to think about our lives; that's how they'll read Gatsby. — 00:03:15
- 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — announcement: John starts talking about The Great Gatsby today, but only its epigraph and first sentence, so no spoilers. — 00:02:13
- 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: John apologises to Nerdfighters for not talking about The Great Gatsby in this video, because he has been sick. — video description