Hello, hello! To make a long story short, I've been thinking about setting up a book club over here at dreamwidth, as most  of the ones I've stumbled across are long since inactive (a tag search brings up comms that haven't been updated in years).

I was personally thinking about operating it similarly to bookclubfiction, with votes for the genre and then the individual titles nominated, although I'm totally open for better suggestions as to how this hypothetical book club should be run. It'd all be low pressure and just about giving people another excuse to pick up new books and have a chat about them, or whatever topics we'd find relevant as a group. 

So! Would anyone here be interested in this? If so, suggestions for a name would be grand too. 

This is the discussion post for August.

We had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series as a theme.

What did you read?

Sign of the Four? or some of the short stories?

Go and discuss.

Bonus link:

Trailer for Sherlock Holmes new movie to be release in December.

I call it Steampuck Holmes.



Official trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI

So links.

Please add to this post in the comments.

Links for the series

The Official Jasper Fforde site : where you can get everything and anything about the series

The Thursday Next official site

Thursday Next

For the books

The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair Plot summary, reception of the book and an academic articles references.

Books used in the plot :

Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë
or in audiobook.
Martin Chuzzlewit. Charles Dickens or in audiobook.
The Raven. Edgar Allan Poe or in audiobook.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud". William Wordsworth or in audiobook.

Lost in a Good Book

Books used in the plot :

Great Expectations. Charles Dickens or in audiobook.
The Trial. Franz Kafka or in audiobook (from Audible this title is not in the public domain)

Lost in a Good Book : mostly a summary with references to the books used in the novel.

The Well of Lost Plots
Books used in the plot :

The Big Over Easy aka Caversham Heights. Jasper Fforde which makes for interesting possibilities of meta discussions. *g*
Cardenio. Shakespeare

The Well of Lost Plots : mostly summary

Something Rotten

Books used in the plot :

Hamlet. Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare

Something Rotten : Mostly summary

First Among Sequels

Books used in the plot:

Haven't read this one.

Misc pages

Thursday Next bio and background

Thursday Next Wiki

PDF documents reader's guide questions

Characters in Thursday Next Series

Characters in the Thursday Next Series

This is the read along post. You can post your reactions, squee, dismay and rants as you are reading any of the books of the series.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

An alternate history set in 19th-century England during the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange.

This is the read along post. You can post your reactions, squee, dismay and rants as you are reading any of the books of the series.

The Handmaid's Tale

Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government.