Dear Readers, Welcome to the third week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. You can find the introductory post here, Week 1 here, and Week 2 here. Sirius and I will be talking about everything through Chapter 26, which takes us more than three-quarters of the way ... more >
Dear Readers, Welcome to the second week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Our introductory post is here and you can catch up with last week’s discussion here. We’re now halfway through our four-week project, at the end of Book 1. I was frequently lost last ... more >
Dear readers, Welcome to the first week of our readalong and discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 20th century classic. As we said last week, we’ll be reading the book in four sections, and today we’ll talk about ch. 1-9. Sunita: For the purposes of this conversation, I’m the total newbie. I’m ... more >
UPDATE: Robin has an extra copy of the original first edition of The Windflower hanging around the house, that she’s giving away to one commenter. Please see the details at the end of this post and enter via the Rafflecopter. Welcome to the first book club of 2014. Today ... more >
I’ve spent probably a few thousand words chatting via email with various readers about this book so I knew it would be a great topic for discussion. Because I have a lot of admiration for Smith’s work, I was not hesitant to ask her difficult questions and her candor and ... more >
I picked this book for the October book club not because it was the best book I’d read but for two reasons. It was emotionally compelling and I thought readers would appreciate that and second it featured an interracial relationship set in the 1970s and that would give us a ... more >