Archive for March, 2011

America's Lost Generation Tour Begins!

The America’s Lost Generation Tour officially begins! The first stops will be here:

Monday, March 21    Sasha & The Silverfish This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 21    2606 Books and Counting The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Monday, March 21    A Literary Odyssey The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

I won’t be posting every day of the tour. Rather, the master schedule will be a sticky note on the Classics Circuit site. Make sure you follow tour participants. I hope this helps you figure out which book you want to read next.

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America's Lost Generation: Tour Schedule

The upcoming tour is going to be wonderful! Here are the planned stops on the tour. If you’d like to join in or if there is an error below, please send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com.

Monday, March 21    Sasha & The Silverfish This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 21    2606 Books and Counting The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Monday, March 21    A Literary Odyssey The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

Tuesday, March 22    Bibliosue The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Tuesday, March 22    Notes from the North “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
Tuesday, March 22    Stiletto Storytime An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Wednesday, March 23    Mustard Seed Book Reviews A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Thursday, March 24    The Zen Leaf A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Thursday, March 24    1morechapter The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Thursday, March 24    The Reading Life Something by Sherwoood Anderson

Friday, March 25    Dolce Bellezza “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, March 25    pages turned “Spotted Horses” by William Faulkner
Friday, March 25    C’est la vie! Short stories by Ernest Hemingway

Saturday, March 26     The Story Girl Something by Ernest Hemingway
Saturday, March 26      Time’s Flow Stemmed As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Sunday, March 27    Booksploring Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
Sunday, March 27    Hungry Like the Woolf Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Monday, March 28    Nonsuch Book The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 28    Bread Crumb Reads “Eeldrop and Appleplex” by T.S. Eliot
Monday, March 28     bibliographing Lucy Church Amiably by Gertrude Stein

Tuesday, March 29    Fitzgerald Musings Winter Dreams or May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, March 29    Wordy Evidence of the Fact Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot or True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway

Wednesday, March 30    Just Add Books To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, March 30    Shelf Love The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Wednesday, March 30    An Armchair by the Sea Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thursday, March 31    things mean a lot Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday, March 31    Evening All Afternoon Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Thursday, March 31    Rebecca Reads For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Friday, April 1    Fat Books & Thin Women Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Friday, April 1        A Book Lover Something by T. S. Eliot
Friday, April 1    Nisaba Be Praised Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, April 1    Capricious Reader Something by Zelda or Scott Fitzgerald

Saturday, April 2    Lifetime Reading Plan The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Saturday, April 2    Life is a Patchwork Quilt A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Saturday, April 2    Sparksmarks “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot

Sunday, April 3    Breathing Space The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald or A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Sunday, April 3    Fig and Thistle Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
Sunday, April 3    Notorious Spinks Talks Books Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

 

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America's Lost Generation Button

Sign up has closed for America’s Lost Generation tour. If you missed out and still want to join, send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com. We currently have a full schedule of participants scheduled from March 21 until April 3, but we can always fit in more classics readers!

The button for this tour is taken from an original cover for The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1922. (Imaged via Wikipedia, in the U.S. public domain.) The Beautiful and the Damned is about a 1920s socialite and his relationship with his wife, and the illustration of the two elite on this cover are said to be based on Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald themselves.

Since F. Scott Fitzgerald is such a key figure in the Lost Generation, this autobiographical cover image seemed an appropriate one for this Classics Circuit tour.

Happy reading, and I’ll be back to post the schedule once all emails are sent!

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