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John asks Nerdfighters to read The Great Gatsby with him for the Blurbing Book Club (summer 2011)

ask · status: asked in 2011; no response reported · last event: reminder (2011-07-13) · owner: John

In June 2011 John asked readers, first-timers and past haters alike, to read The Great Gatsby with him for the summer Blurbing Book Club.

Part of: Blurbing Book Club 2011: group reading of The Great Gatsby

Told alongside: Nerdfighters are asked to vote in a Your Pants poll on the Sharpie colour for John's signatures of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) · John points viewers to pre-order The Fault in Our Stars (2011) · John and Hank at LeakyCon 2011

About: The Great Gatsby

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2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) asked John asks readers, whether first-timers or rereaders who hated it, to read The Great Gatsby with him: 'Let's read it!' Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) 00:01:45
2011-06-29 reminder John returns to the Great Gatsby reading ('I don't know if you've started reading The Great Gatsby') and starts discussing it today, epigraph and first sentence only. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS 00:02:13
2011-07-08 reminder John reminds viewers to read the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby by Wednesday (13 July 2011): homework from YouTube. Kill the Dollar Bill! 00:03:05
2011-07-13 reminder John gives people who haven't yet read the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby an extension until Monday (18 July 2011). · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:00:00

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