The Big Book Club starts "Middlemarch"

Big Book Club's "What the Whale!"

Welcome back to the Big Book Club!

In our introductory episode of Season 2, Jennie, Megan and Pete chat about the reading schedule for "Middlemarch" and the discussion format of this season's Big Book Club:

• We're reading for 3 weeks, and then taking a week off to catch up (and repeat)
• We're hosting 2 in person chats in the off weeks, for people who don't like online discussion
• We're holding the online discussion on Goodreads. It's a closed group, so if you haven't asked to join yet, do so before 8 p.m. on Sunday, if you want to take part in the conversation about chapters 1-9.

We also share our feelings about introductory sentences, wonder what the prologue means, Megan schools us on how much of a badass George Eliot was (especially for a Victorian lady), and Alex makes big pronouncements about "Wuthering Heights."

And of course we share our palate cleansers:

• Jennie - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 2
• Pete - MAGFEST - the Music and Gaming Festival - and Super Art Fight - "The greatest live art competition in the known universe"
• Megan - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 1
• Alex - "The Devouring: a Billy Boyle World War II Mystery" by James R. Benn