Well hello there, day that is not Thursday! How about a wee bit of blogging?
As some of you may be aware, Infinite Summer is an online reading project that has gained a fair amount of attention in recent months. The goal is to read or re-read the late David Foster Wallace's ground-breaking 1996 novel Infinite Jest between June 21st and September 22nd 2009. Weighing in at an astonishing 2.4lbs and a bold 1104 pages, it definitely proves itself to be quite an immediate challenge.
Thanks to my recent move and my local bookshops being out of stock, my gargantuan paperweight (get it?!) of a summer read didn't descend into my greedy little palms until Wednesday. This mishap immediately placed me an immodest 2 weeks and 4 days, or approximately 185 pages (excluding a plethora of endnotes) behind the curve. Not exactly fashionably late. But, no worries, I'm up for the challenge. While I'm not entirely convinced that I can make the September 22nd deadline, it's a book that I am keen to be challenged by and plan to persevere. You can find out more about the Infinite Summer project here.
Are any of you taking part in Infinite Summer, or have you read Infinite Jest?
If you're interested in becoming an Infinite Summer buddy, I'd love for you to leave a comment, email me, or even send me a tweet (@robotnic)!
Hope you are all having a lovely weekend!
Nicola x
6 comments:
What's it about? :)
Wow. That is a MEATY book. Good luck with it! :)
Howdy!
Yeah I'm on the INFS tip as well. I've started the book a couple of months ago and put it down for a while but was happy to see a summer online reading circle forming for this story, I'm currently bookmarked at p. 283, but I've been bouncing back to re-read previous segments and forward to the end notes often. IJ is an interesting, fun, and challenging book to read. Feel free to talk IJ with me on twitter @Michael_Haring or #ifsm.
Aloha!
Hey, my friends and I are reading it. Join us on the Facebook group, in the Denver/Boulder section. Great!
Darren
Wow, that's a whole lot of BOOK! Good luck with the challenge, I hope you enjoy it! :)
Lo - Honestly, it's kind of hard to tell. The blurb talks about communication and how much of ourselves we share through technology and how that whole sphere of communication is changing. Sounds pretty groundbreaking for its time!
Lesley - Thank you!
mharing - Will definitely be hitting you up on Twitter soon =)
Darren - Hi! Thanks, I'll look it up.
Corrine - I know right! Thanks =)
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