Amy and Erin's Amazing Diarchical Club of Books You Should Read With Us discussion

This discussion is about Annihilation, book 1 in the Southern Reach trilogy. We will begin reading and discussing in June of 2015.

This is for general discussion. Please put spoilers behind cuts. Thanks.

Hi Amy,
How does this work, I would like to join this reading session of Annihilation, sort of new here :-). Can I just start reading in June and join the discussion?

Annet wrote: "Hi Amy,
How does this work, I would like to join this reading session of Annihilation, sort of new here :-). Can I just start reading in June and join the discussion?"

Yes. A couple of us own Annihilation already and decided to read it together in June, so I thought I'd go ahead and start up a discussion board in anticipation. As we read, we can post our thoughts and any group questions here.

A few days ahead, I'll check to see who else on GoodReads might be reading the book at the same time and send out a few invites to liven up the conversation.

Reading officially starts June 1st.

Yep, I also have Annihilation on my shelves ready and waiting. Count me in!

Count me in as well!

I've finished the first chapter, and it's full of clues to the book's mysteries. Or maybe they're not clues. I think I'll start a thread for Chapter 1 for us to look at the clues and give our best guesses as to what's going on. Be on the lookout for it after you read the first chapter. :-)

Well noted! Will start reading tomorrow or Monday.

Absolutely don't read it until you've read the first chapter completely.

Understood :-)

Well I started reading, in the middle of chapter 1, so I won't read the thread about it until done. But the atmosphere of chapter one is 'unsettling', weird. So far, I have to say, I like the tension building and the weirdness in the story. And what's going on exactly....
What also fascinates me is the division of the several reviewers on the book so far on goodreads. Highs and lows. I'll be back when I finished chapter 1.

So, did you guys hear that this one just won the Nebula award?

https://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/

A very well-deserved award!

I heard that.

Is it a tower or a tunnel? Agh!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65705/...

Amy wrote: "Is it a tower or a tunnel? Agh!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65705/..."

Wow. For some reason that sculpture feels just as creepy as the Annihilation tower/tunnel...

I think that it is like saying potato or potato....well you know what I mean. It is about perspective. I was like the biologist and thought of it as a tower. Even though many of the characters thought it was a tunnel.

But then...that looks like a tunnel of books...

If you liked the book, I think you may like the movie. I did.

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