As I announced a while back, I’ll be hosting a group read on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple throughout May. Well to be honest, my hosting part of it is pretty limited – to this intro post and a roundup post at the end of May. The real glory is for all the amazing people who are participating! Here they are, in no particular order:
- Geoff of The Oddness of Moving Things
- Clarissa of Clarissa Draper
- Caroline of Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
- Laura of Devouring Texts
- Danielle of A Work in Progress
- Fleur of Fleur Fisher in her World
- Connie of The Blue Bookcase
- Chelsea of Prescription: Reading
- Carey of Carey’s Book Project
- Iris of Iris on Books
- Fanda of Klasikfanda
- Délaissé
Bring it on! What an impressive list!
Please do let me know if I’ve forgotten anyone (sorry!) or if you still want to join.
The rules are really simple: read The Color Purple during May, post your thoughts on it at the end of May, and be included in my roundup post scheduled for May 31st. That’s it!
I’ll hopefully also be announcing some other The Color Purple-related shenanigans as May proceeds, so stay tuned.
I look forward to reading all your thoughts and discussions!
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May 2, 2012 at 3:00 am
You have a wonderful list of participants! What a great discussion you all will have. I’ve read this many years ago, and feel no desire to read it again, but it will be fun to see the posts
May 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Thanks Bellezza! I’m really excited about this and look forward to your comments on our posts.
May 2, 2012 at 8:22 am
This is one of those books I’m so familiar with, because of the movie and because it is so famous, that for a long time it never even ocurred to me that I have actually not read it.
I’m really curious to see how it will be to actually read it and to read the posts of other participants and to discuss it.
May 3, 2012 at 8:36 pm
You know, I’ve never seen the movie. I’m thinking of doing a “watch along” at some point in May as a sort of side-kick to the group read. It might be fun.
May 4, 2012 at 5:59 am
Oh yes, that would be really great. I love this type of pairing.
May 4, 2012 at 5:59 pm
I think I’ll probably watch the film as well after I read it! I’ve never seen the film but I’m in a book group about books into films and it’s made me really conscious of adaptations.
May 4, 2012 at 6:54 pm
I often review books and movies together when I can. It’s quite interesting to compare. I remember music s very importnat in te movie Color Purple so it will rally be interesting to see how that comes across in a book or whether it has bee purely added for the film.
May 4, 2012 at 7:17 pm
That is one of the things I enjoy about films. I can never get around to reviewing a movie with a book because I get distracted by other books and then all of a sudden the movie’s out of my mind. That’s one reason I joined the book group – and am hoping to do it with this novel!
May 4, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Thanks for hosting! I’m very excited and am hoping to get to it relatively soon and not have to scramble at the end of the month!
May 7, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Well – I finished reading it this weekend. It was a faster read than I expected. I’ll have my post up early next week. Overall I enjoyed the novel and was a bit awestruck/disturbed at how powerful parts of it were.
May 7, 2012 at 10:45 pm
You’re quick! Looking forward to your post. Just on behalf of those who haven’t read it before: will there be spoilers?
May 7, 2012 at 11:58 pm
In general I try to avoid posting any spoilers. And if I do I try to make it really known that there are spoilers following.
May 4, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I will probabaly post on 31 as well. I don’t think I can make it earlier as my own readalong is due on May 28.
May 4, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Fab – glad to see some of you will be watching the film too. I think I might just include some remarks on the film in relation to the book in my wrap-up post, or if I find out that I want to say a lot more after watching it, I might do a separate post.
May 6, 2012 at 1:17 pm
I just started reading. I must be the only one who knows nothing going into this book. I haven’t seen the movie either. On page 32, I think it might be a difficult book to write about though.
May 7, 2012 at 10:44 pm
I’m discovering the same thing, Iris! Even though I’ve read it before, I didn’t remember it as being this difficult to think about. Let’s see how this goes.
May 15, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I knew nothing and it was incredibly disturbed by the novel when I read the opening scene. I also found it difficult to write about – good luck!
May 15, 2012 at 7:39 pm
*disturbing
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