Nerdfighter Book Club 2014 edition: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
project history · status: past edition (2014) · last event: milestone (2014-07-22)
In April 2014 John relaunched the Nerdfighter Book Club with Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, set June 10 as the due date, and opened the discussion with its first four chapters on that day.
Parts: John points viewers to read Behind the Beautiful Forevers for the relaunched Nerdfighter Book Club (2014) · John suggests Nerdfighters read Maximum City alongside Behind the Beautiful Forevers for extra credit (2014) · John asks viewers for their thoughts on the first four chapters of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and on luck (2014) · John: upload a Behind the Beautiful Forevers book club video next Tuesday during his trip (July 2014) · John asks viewers for their thoughts on charity in Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2014)
About: Nerdfighter Book Club, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-15 | launched | John announces the relaunch of the Nerdfighter Book Club with Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers. | Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:02:56 |
| 2014-04-29 | rule change | John sets the book club due date: June 10, after the TFIOS film release on June 6, with Maximum City as an extra-credit reading. | Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club 00:01:28 |
| 2014-05-20 | milestone | John reminds Nerdfighters to read Behind the Beautiful Forevers, which he is rereading for the Nerdfighter Book Club, by June 10th. | Deserving 00:00:12 |
| 2014-06-10 (said on 2014-06-07, implied) | milestone | John opens the Nerdfighter Book Club discussion of Behind the Beautiful Forevers with its first four chapters. | Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:00:28 |
| 2014-07-22 | milestone | 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. | Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:00:16 |
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
8 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 — announcement: John says this summer the Nerdfighter Book Club is reading Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, which he calls a fascinating book. — 00:01:23
- 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club — announcement: John apologizes for not giving a due date and sets June 10, since the TFIOS film comes out June 6 and things will be crazy until then. — 00:01:28
- 2014-06-10 (said on 2014-06-07, implied) · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — 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. — 00:00:28
- 2014-06-10 (said on 2014-06-07, implied) · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — ask: John asks Nerdfighters what they took from the first four chapters and what they think of luck: how to make sense of a world where luck shapes triumphs and tragedies. — 00:03:31
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John: Meanwhile John will make a video on Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the Nerdfighter Book Club summer pick, and schedule it to upload next Tuesday (22 July 2014) so he doesn't get punished. — 00:02:34
- 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