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Join us for a double read of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "James," 8/15-8/29 (HF) and 9/1-9/30 (J)!
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🛶 Optional prep reading for HF:
@rnrhamster.bsky.social mentioned the issue of dialect difficulty.
The sound of HF's language comes from a particular place and time; though it reads oddly in the 21st century, several of Twain's contemporaries comment on its accuracy.
Here's a short explainer.
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🛶📖 Huck Finn readers, see you on Saturday, 8/15, to talk about chs. 1-5. Optional extra reading below in the comments.
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Thoughts on That Word, a 🧵🛶📖
Note to Huck Finn/James readers: If you haven't read HF in a while, or haven't yet read it, you might be surprised by the serious subjects (and objectionable language) within. Please be aware that this children's novel (!) includes scenes of slavery, murder...
Cavy Core @rnrhamster.bsky.social
James is shorter than HF. The challenge (for me) with HF is the dialect. You do get used to it as you read on. The main challenge (again, for me) as we read is the use of a racial slur over 200 times. I never got used to it. Some editions and arguments are made to sub that with a different word.
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🛶 Gearing up for the next Bluesky book read: Huckleberry Finn, which I haven’t read in decades, and then James, which I have been wanting to read! Hi book pals! Not yet a book pal? Still time to join us!
Hat Full of Sky @hatfullofsky.bsky.social
Hello, readers! It’s Modern/Classics time as we take on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Percival Everett’s retelling, “James.” Who’s in? Post here, and I will add you to the feed! (Which I am still tinkering with!) Schedule to come, but 8/15-9/30.) 🛶📖 #HuckandJames
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However, persons making memes are welcome! 🛶
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Also:
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 🛶
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Download short sections here: 🛶
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885 edition) from Project Gutenberg
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Just trying this out. 🛶 so I’m guessing the canoe will put this on the Huck and James feed (It’s been a while since I’ve done this)
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This is a test post for the Huck/James feed. Tap, tap, is this thing on? 🛶
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🛶Is there a preferred edition for Huck Finn for this readalong?
Also of interest: original manuscript: digital.buffalolib.org/do…
digital.buffalolib.org
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [manuscript] : Tom Sawyer's comrade · B&ECPL Digital Collections
Gift of the author to the Buffalo, N.Y., Young Men's Association Library (1885,1887). Presented in response to a request for a manuscript from a library official, James Fraser Gluck.
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Hello, readers! It’s Modern/Classics time as we take on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Percival Everett’s retelling, “James.” Who’s in? Post here, and I will add you to the feed! (Which I am still tinkering with!) Schedule to come, but 8/15-9/30.) 🛶📖 #HuckandJames
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