quotablebookquotes discussion

This group belongs to all of us. This chat has been created so you can share your ideas of what you'd like to see whether it be a bimonthly series or different Discussion topics to be added for our books. If you want to see anything different or new in this group, this is where you can share it or tell me that my ideas don't suck [they probably do].

I know I just started this but I didn't want to disrupt the explanatory note by my two [current] ideas

1. bimonthly series? I think it could be fun. [may go to vote]

2. Making a bookshelf for the books that we haven't read as well as the ones that we have so that we can better keep track of things that we want to read and have read?

Colleen, I think creating a bookshelf for the books we want to read is a great idea!

Caity wrote: "Colleen, I think creating a bookshelf for the books we want to read is a great idea!"

IT IS DONE (ish)

Back to bother you all again! I was thinking about what books to quote on the quote blog and I was thinking that sense and sensibility would be a nice addition. Then I was thinking about how this months theme is Made into Movies and how cool it would be if we could have a theme next month too.

I was thinking maybe Austen or 19th cent romances?

Thoughts?

Hey all,

As a philosophy major obviously I think philosophy is super duper fun. IFF (if and only if) Sophie's World wins would anyone be interested in reading some philosophy with me and some Foundation Year (a University of King's College Program. If you'd like more information on it hit me up)related lit?

It will be a lot of fun and Sophie's World is about The History of Philosophy, so it would be a great introduction. Seeing that I'm taking Philosophy right now I feel quite capable of explaining some of the ideas and why words are important.

Thoughts?

I was also thinking that a trip to the ancient world might be fun. Get some Lucretius, Seneca, Homer,
Aeschylus, and Plato in there? Yeah? Good idea? Fun times?

Ahhhh! This is exciting! IT WILL GO TO POLL [eventually] //I'll try and find some lighter things to start with, as in Greeks.

Do you guys think we should make this an open group?

Guys, we're going to be reading A Series of Unfortunate Events until January #awesome

Does everyone like having the polls anonymous, or would you like to see what books people are voting for?

Actually, I'm looking to become a Classics/Philosophy major myself (I do wish to teach it, after all) and think that it would be a great idea. But, if I may suggest while we're on the ancients, how about all literature and not only philosophy?
Homer, Sappho, Aristotle, Apollonius, and the like.

And about the philosophy, were you thinking of moving from past to present?
Or perhaps even adding a history section for various knowledge or information about that period?

Yeah, I was thinking just a really really long journey around the world, starting in the ancients moving to the modern with literature in between. Kind of like the Foundation Year Program at The University of King's College [which was my first year program and I highly recommend it. King's is the best.]

I'd like to combine a lot of the reading lists from that and add and subtract some works as we see fit. So start with The Epic of Gilgamesh and move onto Homer and then into Plato and so on and so forth.

I just really want people to read philosophy texts with again.

Well you can read with me! :D I think that would be a great idea.

Awesome. I'll start working on a list later this week!