I’ve been participating in the Infinite Summer project since it began back in June. The project brought together tons of people around the world to read Infinite Jest throughout the summer and then more recently read Dracula during the month of October.
I’ve been hosting bi-weekly Seattle area meetups throughout the online reading projects and have been enjoying the swirl of blogging and forums that have occurred as a byproduct of smart people converging on reading the same thing at the same time. It’s been fun although there was definitely a lot less people interested in Dracula than there was for Infinite Jest.
So why has the project come to a grinding halt? Today is the first day with no #infsum reading project scheduled. There has been no announcement of whether the project is going to continue or not. There has been an announcement that we’ll read 2666: A Novel starting in January but there’s been nothing announced to bridge the gap through November and December. If I don’t hear back definitively that the project has a selection, our reading group is going to have to move on on our own. Oh horror of horrors!
Infinite Summer, has the “infinite” come to an end so soon?
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I’m looking forward to 2666; in the meantime I’m knocking out a few other reading projects that have been waiting for me (“Watchmen,” “The New Woman” by Jon Hassler, and something else short–Crying of Lot 49 maybe?). I’m in for 2666 at the beginnning of January even if we just do it ourselves.