Here is the list of everything we wanted to read, followed by the ones we chose.
The Cantos - Ezra Pound
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Divine Comedy - Dante
something by Isaac Newton
something by John Keynes
the Biography of James Joyce
Girl Blog From Iraq
The Day The Leader Was Killed - Naguib Mahfouz
The Development of Underdevelopment - André Gunder Frank
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Condition of Post-Modernity - David Harvey
Analysis of medium-length computer program
Without Hot Air - David MacKay
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
The Underground Man - Fyodor Dovstoyevsky
something by Proust
something by Irving Layton
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Aeneid - Virgil
WHAT WE WILL READ:
Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton (excerpts)
Cantos - Ezra Pound
The Underground Man - Fyodor Dovstoyevsky
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
A selection of Irving Layton's work
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
The Condition of Post-Modernity - David Harvey La Nausée - Jean-Paul Sartre
We have begun La Nausée. (most of us are reading in translation, but the truly ambitious among us are reading the original French!) Our next meeting will finish up with this existentialist dog fart and we'll decide from there what to read next. If anyone needs details about next week's meeting on June 6th, please get in touch!
31.5.09
23.5.09
First Book, Second Meeting
Last night was fun. I can sense a lot of excitement about our project. Let's dive right in!
The next meeting will be at 7pm on Sunday May 31st at Patrick's house: 602 15th St. NW.
We have decided to start by reading the first 100 (or so) pages of Jean-Paul Satre's "Nausea". If you have difficulty finding a copy of the book, send a message to the group. Someone will gladly help you out!
Please be ready to discuss the text and ask a few 'why' questions.
And don't forget to spend five minutes on Doodle to vote for the best days to meet. August polls will be up later this month.
Check back soon for the booklist, including the titles that didn't make it to our top eight!
The next meeting will be at 7pm on Sunday May 31st at Patrick's house: 602 15th St. NW.
We have decided to start by reading the first 100 (or so) pages of Jean-Paul Satre's "Nausea". If you have difficulty finding a copy of the book, send a message to the group. Someone will gladly help you out!
Please be ready to discuss the text and ask a few 'why' questions.
And don't forget to spend five minutes on Doodle to vote for the best days to meet. August polls will be up later this month.
Check back soon for the booklist, including the titles that didn't make it to our top eight!
22.5.09
16.5.09
Introductory meeting
This blog will be the online resource for Volumes summer reading group 2009. Readings, notes and announcements will be posted here. Anyone from the group may post.
The first get-together will be on Friday May 22nd at 6pm.
Please email me at LdotBOYDdotCLOWESatGMAILdotCOM for the address.
In the meantime, let's figure out which books or essays we would like to read. Consider especially difficult texts that would benefit from a workshop treatment - remember, if there is something you don't understand, there will likely be someone in the group who does. That is the beauty of cooperative study! Be ambitious!
This will be the time to determine a schedule, meet each other and discuss our expectations for the summer. Please come with book suggestions, wine and/or food!
Be there!
The first get-together will be on Friday May 22nd at 6pm.
Please email me at LdotBOYDdotCLOWESatGMAILdotCOM for the address.
In the meantime, let's figure out which books or essays we would like to read. Consider especially difficult texts that would benefit from a workshop treatment - remember, if there is something you don't understand, there will likely be someone in the group who does. That is the beauty of cooperative study! Be ambitious!
This will be the time to determine a schedule, meet each other and discuss our expectations for the summer. Please come with book suggestions, wine and/or food!
Be there!
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