John: upload a Behind the Beautiful Forevers book club video next Tuesday during his trip (July 2014)
promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2014-07-22) · owner: John
John's July 2014 promise to schedule a Nerdfighter Book Club video on Behind the Beautiful Forevers to upload the following Tuesday while he was away in East Africa; the video came out on 22 July 2014.
Part of: Nerdfighter Book Club 2014 edition: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Told alongside: John points viewers to read Behind the Beautiful Forevers for the relaunched Nerdfighter Book Club (2014)
About: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Nerdfighter Book Club
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-15 | promised | John commits to make a Behind the Beautiful Forevers book club video, scheduled to upload next Tuesday (22 July 2014) so he doesn't get punished. | Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 00:02:34 |
| 2014-07-22 | kept | John delivers the Behind the Beautiful Forevers book club video on Tuesday while he is away in East Africa. | Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:00:16 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says his favourite character in the summer book club pick is Sunil, a 12-year-old garbage picker who is not an orphan but grew up in an orphanage. — 00:00:16
- 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says the book's first mention of charity is complicated: the nun running the orphanage lies to raise money and the orphanage sells clothes collected for the kids, yet Sunil needs it and learns to read there. — 00:00:40
- 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John notes that in the book the charity-run school in Annawadi is taught by a teenager and substandard, and many charity schools are frauds, like one that closed once its leader had photos to secure government funds. — 00:01:18