e j m duggan wrote: > > It seems to me that some consensus is emerging on the Group Reading > proposal: > > Chandler's 'Red Wind' > Jack & Pronzini eds _Hard Boiled_ > My local library has HARD-BOILED, so I can get this, and I still have some of the photocopies of "Red Wind" I passed out to my hard-boiled book discussion I led at the library a couple of years ago. I like the idea of reading the HARD-BOILED stories and discussing the authors, for our beginning at this. We can go for novel-length books next, perhaps. > What we need is a decision on what to read first, and when to read it. Let's read HARD-BOILED in order, perhaps? > We also need, I'd suggest, to agree some boundaries (time-wise) on when to > post our responses. Let's just do one a week. If someone wants to bring up a story discussed several weeks previous I see no problem with that. It will be a free-wheeling discussion, anyway. I don't think we need to worry about a strict closing date. People might well want to compare/contrast a variety of works. Can't wait to get started! Best wishes, Richard King - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca