Brave New World?

So, we were supposed to read BNW for a few days ago. Based on the recent poll, it appears that four people are checking in with the blog. If any of those people have also read Brave New World, it would be great if they could identify themselves/tell us what they thought of the book!

More on Emma

Are Emma's efforts to improve the lives of those around her praiseworthy or blameworthy?

If Praiseworthy: what makes someone an authority on what will make others happy?

If Blameworthy: why shouldn't we do our best to help others?

Summer Book #2

Hi Everyone!
Thanks for the great Emma comments! As most of you know, the next book is Brave New World.
We are going to read it for July 2.

Love, Hannah

Step 2: The Obvious First Question

So, what did you think about Emma?

Step 2

So, tomorrow is the day we were gonna read Emma for.
I vote for a two day grace period in case anyone started reading and forgot.

Also, I am not sure what we are actually going to do now that we've read the book. Hartley was less than enlightening on the matter. But on the bright side, he's no longer the only person on campus wearing shorts.

As seen in the poll, the next book is Brave New World.
It's short, and fun.

Please comment and offer guidance for what should happen!!!

Interesting...

I don't mean to interrupt you all from reading Emma, but a friend of mine pointed this book out to me, and I thought you guys might find it interesting. It's got a different perspective on a few of the "Great Books" that we read.

At one point, the author writes: "The desire that something be true, rather than the desire for truth itself, may well be the root of all evil. It is certainly the origin of all ideology, and ideology was the source of much of the evil in the past century."

Interesting, no?

PS - I didn't actually *read* this book, so I have no idea if it's any good, and don't really know anything about it, I just think it's interesting how the Great Books come up everywhere, all the time, and are used for such a variety of purposes by so many different sorts of people
PPS - Do people inform you of any and all great-books-related things that they find? People certainly have started pointing them all out to me... it's quite funny.

Bilateral Decision: Book #1

Dear Comrades,
Good news, the first book of the summer is Emma, by Jane Austen!

The date to have Emma completed by is: June 4, which is three weeks from today.

I had a planning meeting about book group and we decided that picking one book at a time will be better than laying out an entire program right now. This way, we can see what people want to read, who is reading, etc, as we go.
Of course, the people who decide to take part in book #1 will get more of a say in the next books. Hartley and I thought Emma was a safe bet for making people happy.

Please comment with complaints about the book, the date, etc, and/or to say you're planning to take part!

And, of course, Congrats on surviving finals everyone!!!! We no longer need refer to ourselves as "First years."

Love,
Hannah