I have established this blog to describe and announce a recurring Twitter project I am experimenting with. I will be tweeting HERE one sentence for every page of a monthly book club selection. The original project idea had its own blog here: Lit Only By Fire. This blog will be host all subsequent projects. This month's book is Utopia, by Thomas More. More on More in a subsequent post.
Each Tweet is intended to be a pithy gloss of the take-away point of that page of the book. The tweets will be in order and each will begin with the page number it is associated with. The tweets will generally be published periodically between 9am and 7pm each day during the month leading up to each book club meeting (I reserve the right to throw in a random 3 am post here and there as well). I will use SocialOomph to automate the tweets (HT HATProject).
The books are chosen by vote, so there's no telling what book will pop up on any given month. Some of these books will inevitably deal with touchy subjects for some people. I assure you, I intend no offense.
I was inspired by two recent discoveries.
- One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick (HT Boing Boing) which is exactly what it says.
- HATProject (HT kottke) which "recreated the movie ‘Home Alone’ using 22 different twitter profiles collected into a single twitter list" in real time" (in synch with the movie's chronology).
I am reading these books for the Washington DC area book club Books and Banter. I have no connection to the authors of the books nor to the publishers. Like the HATProject folks, there's no money in this and I do it as an experimental use of Twitter and social networking.
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