ETS Book Club Book: Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad"

[allegro]

I'm making a big dinner the night of New Year's Day. It's actually a "holiday."

@elevenism , you can highlight the areas of note in the book, and then pull up all of the highlighted areas via Kindle on the computer HERE via your Amazon account.

And you can copy-and-paste highlighted text from the book into this thread, for example:

Alice tossing the heads into the slop bucket. She staggered into the sunlight. Did the woman think her food tainted? Is that how Alice had got rid of everything Cora had contributed these past five years, treated every turnip knob and bunch of sour greens? Had it started with Cora, or Mabel, or her grandmother? There was no point in confronting the woman. Alice had been beloved of Randall, and now James Randall, who had grown tall on her mincemeat pies.

I have 54 highlighted passages, LOL.

[elevenism]

I'm making a big dinner the night of New Year's Day. It's actually a "holiday."

@elevenism, you can highlight the areas of note in the book, and then pull up all of the highlighted areas via Kindle on the computer HERE via your Amazon account.

oh, word? thanks!

So what do you propose we do? i don't want to leave out @allegater

I can discuss even when not 100%. So the question, for me, comes down to this: can allegate be ready to discuss tomorrow?

[elevenism]

I'm making a big dinner the night of New Year's Day. It's actually a "holiday."

@elevenism, you can highlight the areas of note in the book, and then pull up all of the highlighted areas via Kindle on the computer HERE via your Amazon account.

And you can copy-and-paste highlighted text from the book into this thread, for example:




I have 54 highlighted passages, LOL.

that's seriously fucking awesome. I have highlighted passages but didn't yet know how it worked.

[allegro]

that's seriously fucking awesome. I have highlighted passages but didn't yet know how it worked.

It came in REALLY handy for some stuff when I was in school, that's for sure, especially for thesis essays that required cited text.

I learned pretty quickly that highlighting text helps to really "absorb" the text. (Taking notes is even better, but this isn't a class, we ain't getting any GRADES or anything.)

note that you can even ADD NOTES near each highlighted text online.

My friends are in book clubs where you read the book then show up at a meeting and sit around drinking wine and eating appetizers and you discuss the book.

This is that, minus the wine and pâté