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Oh, love this idea. I'm very interested in this book. And my library actually carries it!
I think this will be an interesting book to discuss.
This should be an interesting read, the physical book is so beautiful !
Bit of a recommendation: go through your copy and make a list of all the ephemera and which pages they go with, because you will drop one. And a discussion question: how is everyone tackling the simultaneous-story aspect? I'm reading them both at the same time, but I know some people read one then the other.
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Oh, love this idea. I'm very interested in this book. And my library actually carries it!"
Your library has it?! Huh, I'd've thought they wouldn't want to deal with the pieces of paper. Unless there's a new library edition, I guess.
So how's everyone liking it?
My library has it! We've even got the inserts cataloged in the item record so we know which page they go between. If you're curious, and your friendly neighborhood librarian is not busy, they might be able to go through the book and help you put all the inserts in order!
Book Synopsis:
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
THE WRITER: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him.
THE READERS: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.