2015: The Year of Reading Women discussion

Alice Munro, of course!

of course! I'm always in for an AM read - I do a couple of hers each year. I actually want to re-read Lives of Girls and Women in 2015, but am open to whatever, whenever. :-)

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read any Munro yet though I have at least 2 or 3 books of her stories on my shelves. I keep getting diverted. I'd be happy to read something with you sometime this year.

She has a new book just out that is a selection of stories from later years, 1995-2014, called Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014. It might be a good one for an intro to her. I'm looking forward to reading it, to enjoy all over again previously read stories.

Munro's "Dear Life" is on my to-read list for quite a while. I would love to have a buddy read anytime. BTW, I have read some reviews and I gathered that its a wonderful book. Maybe the best of Munro. So, Anyone, anytime, anywhere, I am ready for it.

@Sue: We'll make sure that you get to read some Munro this year. :)

@Cheryl: Thanks for the heads up. I was unaware about her new book.

Like Abubakar, I have also heard some great things about Dear Life but any other Munro book is as good a choice too. More suggestions are welcome.

I have, but haven't yet read Dear Life. I'm in for that one!

Jennifer (aka EM) wrote: "I have, but haven't yet read Dear Life. I'm in for that one!"

We should definitely plan something.

Ok great! Let's wait for others to comment and then we can fix a date for group read.

I have Runaway, Selected Stories, 1968-1994, Too Much Happiness and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose. But I'm willing to read anything as I'm sure the library will have others. If I start here I'm sure it will motivate me to dig into the books I own. I don't think I can start immediately, but if an early date is chosen, I'll do my best to join in.

I was thinking of 2nd week of Jan as starting date. The collection comprises of 14 stories that can easily be covered within 2 weeks time but we can stretch that up to 3 weeks to accommodate everyone with their other reading commitments.

Sure Garima. Lets do it.

I think I can do that Garima. To be honest, I'm losing track of what I'm reading when, but I usually read multiple books at one time. So the plan will be for Dear Life, starting around the 11th or 12th of January?

I'm in! Thanks for organizing us on this one, Garima!

Thanks for the replies and the pleasure is absolutely mine. Let's decide Jan 11 to Jan 31 (3 weeks exact) devoted to group read. I'll cross post this info in Jan 2015 group read thread and shall try to chart out a schedule soon.

Perfect !

I have all her books and I've read one or two of the stories, so I might peep in here now and then. Not committing myself to anything though. :) My January is far too full already...

I'm going to read her in 2015. I've read Dear Life - so I might just read something else - yet test my memory to see if I can join in on the discussion.

@Garima we need to put it on the main group thread along with other upcoming books. Maybe we will have more buddies to join us if they want to.

@Trav n Melody- Welcome aboard! Looking forward to your participation in the discussion.

@Abubakar: Done :)

So I have come up with the following proposed schedule and since I don't have the book at hand right now, I referred to Amazon's look inside feature to calculate the no. of pages:

1st week- 4 stories (around 107 pages)
2nd Week- 5 stories (around 126 Pages)
3rd week- 5 stories (around 103 Pages. 3 of the 5 stories are the shortest of the lot)

I thought of reading 4 stories in 1st week in order to settle down with the mood and style of writing and once we'll gain the momentum, reading more towards the 2nd week will be easy.

Alternatively, we can read 5 stories in 1st week too. What you guys think?

I think 4 will be good for a start. And, Late comers will also easily match up.

sounds great.

I'm going to try to do at least part of this, hopefully all of it. I have really wanted to start reading Munro.

I have created the group read thread. Here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hello all!

Just a reminder that we are going to start reading Dear Life on Jan 11. Hope everyone who signed up for the group read has got the copy by now. See you here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...