If you are anything like me, you are always asking yourself "What am I going to read now?" I have over 1300 books on my to-read list, but I still cannot decide what to read. Sometimes I feel like I need someone to set up a schedule and tell me what to do. Well, Deborah Harkness has done just that. She is is setting up a reading of her book, A Discovery of Witches to be read over 40 days that coincide with the dates in the book. I bought the book recently and haven't read it yet. This gives me the perfect opportunity to read a book that I've been meaning to get to, but I get distracted by shiny things.
Take a look at this note from Deborah and check out her reading schedule. If you want to join in reading, come find our A Discovery of Witches Readalong Group on Facebook for discussions and flailing.
From Deborah Harkness
Real Time Re-reading of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Five years ago, around 7
September 2008, I started writing what would turn out to be A DISCOVERY
OF WITCHES. As many of you know, the main action of the book takes place
over forty days between September 21 and October 31. Diana Bishop's first
encounter with Ashmole 782, however, occurred on September 18. So if you're
wondering how to spend your time between now and Halloween, and waiting
for news about book #3, why not re-read A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES as the
action elapses? Some days have more than one chapter, and others have none
at all, but it's interesting to read it and have just as much time as Diana and
Matthew did to absorb the enormous changes happening to them, and all
around them. It may give you new insights .
Note: because the action of the book starts on a Friday, the days of the week
will be wrong, even though the dates are right and you will end up, as they
did, on Halloween.
September 18: chapter 1
September 21: chapters 2 and 3
September 22: chapters 4 and 5
September 23: chapter 6
September 24: chapter 7
September 25: chapter 8
September 26: chapter 9 and chapter 10 (which continue through September 29)
September 30: chapter 11
October 1: chapter 12
October 2: chapter 13
October 3: chapter 14
October 5: chapter 15 and chapter 16
October 6: chapter 17 and chapter 18
October 7: chapter 19 and chapter 20
October 8: chapter 21, chapter 22, and chapter 23
October 9: chapter 24 and chapter 25
October 10: chapter 26
October 11: chapter 27
October 12: chapter 28, chapter 29, chapter 30, and chapter 31
October 13: chapter 32 and chapter 33
October 14: chapter 34, chapter 35, and chapter 36
October 15: chapter 37 (which continues to October 19)
October 20: chapter 38 (which continue to October 21)
October 22: chapter 39 (which continues to October 28)
October 29: chapter 40
October 30: chapter 41
October 31: chapter 42
November 1: chapter 43
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