Guanareads: Guanabee’s First Ever Book Club Selection Is Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
9 January 2009, 5:45 PM. By Alex Alvarez
We are tickled pink to announce the first book in our new, biweekly book club: Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.
Here’s how this will work: We’ll assign a certain number of pages / chapters every two weeks and, at the end of that time, we’ll feature a more or less open thread to allow people following along to discuss what we’ve read so far. We’ll also feature our own questions and observations to try and get the conversation going.
If you happen to have any books you’d like us to feature in our book club — either by a Latino author or about Latinos — please let us know! We’re going to stick to fiction for now, but we might make an exception for something like an autobiography or collection of personal essays. Got it? Good.
Your first assignment (should you choose to play along) is after the jump:
Ok! 200 pages in two weeks. Come on, you can do it. We’ll be reading right along with you as a nice change of pace from our usual evening routine of crying alone the shower. Our very first “meeting” will be Friday, January 23rd.
Please feel free to give us any suggestions for future books, or any input on what you’d like to see come out of these meetings.
Woo, etc!
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YES! I am already on page 587, when you find out who the mask killer really is…. NO SPOILERS, I promise, so count me in.
The book is a good read, but I suggest to make the cut at 228 when second part, “The Part about Amalfitano” ends.
ciao
This really is perfect timing! I just finished The Savage Detectives and was planing on starting 2666 next week!
This is perfect for library nerds, I’m down. This gives me time to finish what Ive been reading and check this one out. *excitement*
Fantastic!!
(An excuse to head out to the bookstore and purchase yet another book….hee hee hee…..I’m a bookstore freak….I could spend all day in one…….)
I have a suggestion: from CARLOS RUIZ SAFRON, name of the book ” LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO ” Please review this book and you will agree is perfect for your BOOK CLUB.
Thank you for give us, insaciable readers, a chance to discuss this brilliant work.
Can’t wait. Going to the bookstore today!
Ah! I just bought The Savage Detectives. I can wait and read along with everyone else, how fun!
I’m in! I read 2666 over the holidays and I have not stopped thinking about it.
I’m just starting Part 3 — I’m in!