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I know how to read
so I'll give it a shot

What's the length of the book?
edit: Paperback is 170 pages, so not bad.
Oh, there's an audiobook by Dessalines on YouTube. That makes it much easier for me. I'm in!
I'm interested in joining.
The previous books I've read from Anna Louise Strong were very insightful.
I took part in previous reading group on here and lost interst after a few weeks and felt bad every week that my backlog grew
I think I'll try again tho
I'd like to join the reading group as well, hoping to be able to stick with it.
I would like to join
, I've had Strong's This Soviet World on my backburner for a while.
I'm in, I struggle to stay engaged with books but I picked up When Serfs Stood up in Tibet and couldn't put it down again until it was done
Think wed be down to participate, how often and in how long chunks of the book would tjis be?
I would love to do a book club. Do we have any schedule yet?
Okay I just saw it’s a chapter a week. That sounds good to keep engaged.
and my axe!
Add me to the list! I was so desperate to talk to someone about this book when I first read it that I was blabbing to all my friends
I haven't read that one, sign me up!
I might not be too active in the discussions of each chapter though, depending on what time they take place.
Uhhh.
Okay so I looked at this library and it has Carl Madsen. And hey I like that guy,
But his works aren't translated into English, and while I know this place has a significant Danish population tbat seems... uhhh, problematic? I mean I guess we can go with home translations by users. But if they're incomplete we will have some users able to read the full work and others only catching individual chapters, or worse parts of chapters.
It's three chapters from his book the Good Doctor, translated by SoyViking
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Yeah that's connected to that last part. It's chapters disconnected from the rest of the book and translated ad hoc. Would the book club translate the rest of the book or go solely with what was decided by the translator as pertinent? It is a 24 chapter book. Would you in other cases read solely chapters 9, 21 and 22?
It's not a terrible crime or anything, it just seems less than ideal. I'm not trying to indict anyone. This isn't menst to be an attack. It just doesn't seem ready to be on the reading list.
I wasn't thinking of having the group read that book. The library isn't a reading list, it's my project making EPUBs
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My bad for misunderstanding the idea then. Sorry.
We'll probably read more books from ComLib, especially if this initial book is successful. We probably won't be reading every book on it, however.
It's starting out quite successfully. I was just imagining a few people, we have 34 participants!
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I figured it'd do well! This Soviet World is a commonly recommended but under-read book, plus Hex hasn't had a reading group in a while. Seems like the right content, right place, and right time! Though we should expect a good many to drop after the first few weeks, as happens with most reading groups (or less comments and more passive participation, which is also good).
I will join!

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