(Poss not exactly the logical home for this, but I thought putting it here would in some magical way catch the eye of the right people ahem)
It's called I've Got an Idea for a Seminar
and what you do is bounce about ideas for reading & scope & spin-offs -
SO this morning I noticed someone reading this book of short stories about the City and I thought: that would go nicely with Liar's Poker, and how about one of those late 19th c. American robber baron novels ... but we also need something about how doing three-dimensional chess with money is actually rather quietly dull most of the time, and if I can't find that I'd better write it myself. And the seminar will be called "Finance Red in Tooth and Claw(?)" (- although the question mark is a bit trivialising).
I've got another one, which is about those books about How Engagement With a Specific Plot of Ground Has Changed Your Life and Your Entire Perspective on Everything - such as Elizabeth and her German Garden, and the drippy strain of stuff which is A Year in Provence. And of course you would start off with On Walden Pond - I think, unless anyone can think of anything earlier. (Interesting if you can, because of course Thoreau's schtick is that he is so original.) I don't have a snappy title for that one, so suggestions welcome.
So, is this anyone else's idea of fun? Or am I going to be playing all by myself in a corner? (PS you don't have to do my ideas, you can do your own - hope that goes without saying.)
(It would be quite a fun concept for a book group, too, wouldn't it? One that had a bit of a developing curve instead of one misc. book after another ...?)
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