Story Club with George Saunders

Story Club with George Saunders

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Session the First

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George Saunders
Dec 15, 2024
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(See how I did that? Invoked the spirit of Dickens right there in the subtitle?)

All right, so let’s start in our great A Christmas Carol adventure.

The book is divided into five “staves.”

I propose we read it in a slightly different way than we usually do. Normally, I give the assignment, we take a week to read it, and then, on the next Sunday, I weight in, and all of you weigh in, in the Comments.

In order to get it all read by the first week of January, let’s try to live by the following schedule, as depicted in the following wobbly, homemade Table:

And I’ll remind us all of the schedule week-by-week, too…

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