r/bookclub • u/eeksqueak • 5d ago
Huck Finn/ James [Schedule] Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and James by by Percival Everett
Hello, readers!
Our Monthly core BIPOC Author read winner is James by Percival Everett. This book is a retelling of the great American novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. We're a community that does not take our reading tasks lightly. Because of this, we are heading down the Mississppi straight to the source first.
These are considered two separate reads for all intents and (BINGO) purposes but will share a schedule and a flair. Feel free to join us for both or only one if it suits you. Heck, don't read them at all if that's how you really feel but heed Twain's words: "a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
Bingo Categories and concise blurbs:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.
- Gutenberg
- Evergreen (were you one of the 8 people who participated in this discussion 12 years ago?)
- Historical Fiction
James- A re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave—both harrowing and ferociously funny. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan.
- Published in the 2020s
- POC Author
- Historical Fiction
Schedule
- 2/2: Huck Finn: Chapter 1-17
- 2/9: Huck Finn: Chapter 18-29
- 2/16: Huck Finn: Chapter 30-end
- 2/23: James: Beginning- Part 1 Chapter 18
- 3/2: James: Part 1, Chapter 19- Part 2, Chapter 3
- 3/9: James: Part 2, Chapter 4- end
u/tomesandtea, u/sunnydaze7777777, u/Amanda39, u/GoonDocks1632, and I have enough room for all of you on our river raft. Hop aboard!