The Book Club With Just One Member

I’m leading a group read of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 over at my blog Bolanobolano.com

You can also follow the conversation on the bolano-l mailing list.

The project got a nice write-up yesterday in the LA Times Jacket Copy blog.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24rich.html

by Motoko Rich

Published January 23, 2010

Communal reading can also help for books that are challenging to approach on your own. How many people actually got through “Ulysses” outside of a college class? Matthew Bucher,
a textbook editor in Austin, Wallace-L,” an online discussion group for fans of David Foster Wallace, said that the expertise of mathematicians, linguists and other fans sharing insights with the online group vastly improved his reading of “Infinite Jest.”

That doesn’t stop Mr. Bucher from having a deeply intimate relationship with books. “I still read the book at home at night by myself with one lamp,” he said. “The next day it does enhance my experience to talk about it.”