John points viewers to read Behind the Beautiful Forevers for the relaunched Nerdfighter Book Club (2014)
ask · status: asked in 2014; no response reported · last event: reminder (2014-07-15) · owner: John
In April 2014 John pointed viewers to Behind the Beautiful Forevers for the relaunched Nerdfighter Book Club, to be read by 10 June. He reminded Nerdfighters in April and May, and again in July 2014 ahead of the next week's video.
Part of: Nerdfighter Book Club 2014 edition: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Told alongside: John suggests Nerdfighters read Maximum City alongside Behind the Beautiful Forevers for extra credit (2014) · John: upload a Behind the Beautiful Forevers book club video next Tuesday during his trip (July 2014)
About: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Nerdfighter Book Club
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-15 | asked | John points viewers to Behind the Beautiful Forevers for the relaunched book club, with links in the description. | Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:03:03 |
| 2014-04-29 | reminder | John tells Nerdfighters they must read Behind the Beautiful Forevers by June 10. | Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club 00:01:38 |
| 2014-05-20 | reminder | John reminds Nerdfighters not to forget to read Behind the Beautiful Forevers by June 10th. | Deserving 00:00:12 |
| 2014-06-10 (said on 2014-06-07, implied) | reminder | John begins the Nerdfighter Book Club conversation on Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the summer's book, starting with the first four chapters; he calls it a book that should be a movie. | Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:00:28 |
| 2014-07-15 | reminder | John tells those who haven't read Behind the Beautiful Forevers that now's the time, before next week's (week of 21 July 2014) video. | Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 00:02:40 |
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).
- 2014-04-15 · Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles — announcement: John: From an airport, John announces the relaunch of the Nerdfighter Book Club with Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a nuanced look at poverty in one Indian community. — 00:02:56
- 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club — ask: John tells Nerdfighters they must read the book by June 10, joking that otherwise nothing will happen to them. (playful) — 00:01:38
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — recommendation: John urges anyone who hasn't read Behind the Beautiful Forevers to read it now: it will make next week's (week of 21 July 2014) video more enjoyable, and it's excellent. — 00:02:40
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John says Behind the Beautiful Forevers won the Pulitzer Prize. (doubtful: the Pulitzer Prize) — 00:02:45