Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the first half of November’s book, The Castle by Franz Kafka trans. J.A.Underwood published in 1926 (up to Chapter 14 ("Frieda's Reproach") if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that we’ll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first episode, published on the second Friday of the month, we’ll discuss the first half. And then in the second episode (published on the last Friday of the month - 25th November), we’ll look at the second half of the book (in this case from page 146 - chapter 14 'Frieda's Reproach'). We’ll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it’s a book we’d recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don’t have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I’ll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we’ll be reading for December is Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds trans. Ken Liu(594pages) (so get that ready if you’re going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! Roger
Content Warning: There will be spoilers.
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Future Reads:
December: Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds trans. Ken Liu(594pages)
January: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (139 pages)
Links:
Guardian Article on Wide Sargasso Sea: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/15/book-beach-wide-sargasso-sea-jean-rhys
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