Michael made some Infinite Summer bookmarks with the schedule printed right on them. We were totally going to do the same thing, but whatever we would have cooked up would have looked pretty lame compared to those.
In addition to creating a Google Calendar and iCal calendar for the I.S. schedule, James also says he’ll be blogging his reading of the novel at his website.
Ralph created a Google Apps Progress Tracker. “I’m not graphic designer, obviously, so it’s very very plain right now,” he says. “But any and all suggestions welcome.”
At Infinite Zombies, five six seven writers intend to chronicle their reading of the book in a format they describe as “part book club, part Fight Club“.
Carolina created a Flickr pool. Photos are also being posted on the Facebook wall.
The Infinite Summer Ravelry group has hit 50 members. The Goodreads page has 87. The LiveJournal community continues to grow.
Bitch Ph.D says she’s on board. Marc says that, on June 21st, he’s going to turn his weblog into “my own journal of the Infinite Summer project/book club.” Kev and Emily are going to “post our gchat convos while we read infinite jest.
Katie is keeping track of her favorite DFW quotations of a Tumblelog. Someone is tweeting Infinite Jest 140 characters at a time on Twitter.
Meg is trying to talk her wedding guests into reading the novel so everyone will have something to talk about at the reception.
And here are some other folks who are talking about the project:
- Brittney of Sparkwood & 21.
- Jim of Wisdom of the West.
- Ian of The Anxiety of Influence.
- Scott of Scott Brenner.
- Colleen of Colleen Barrett.
- tlajous of pura pinche agua, who says that Infinite Summer was the inspiration for his blog.
- Lizzie of This is Geometry.
If you’ll be blogging along, let us know in the comments.
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Can’t remember if I posted here that I was going to blog this or not, but starting June 22 there’ll be an Infinite Summer category on the site. Thanks for the kick in the pants! I’m looking forward to it.
While my blog’s usually about the classical guitar, I’m going to be featuring my thoughts each Friday throughout the Infinite Summer — my bet’s on some felicitous insights thrown on each topic by the other. I’ve been working on the book for the last three years, and have utterly fallen in love, but this summer — thanks to you guys — I’m so looking forward to finishing!
Thanks for the kind words.
We’re up over 55 members at the Live Journal community!
I was also thinking about seeing if anyone in Chicago would want to do a meetup to discuss the book? Because Beer + Books is ALWAYS a good idea.
I’m in Chicago and I’d be all for that.
I also have the best of intentions to blog my rereading at torridly.org.
Excellent! you should grab me on twitter, if you are so inclined…
This is EXCITING.
I plan to post, at least intermittently, about my IJ experience on my regular blog.
I’ll be blogging along at Blographia Literaria as well!
I’ve been terrible about blogging lately, but I promise to blog my Infinite Summer experience, even if it’s “oops, didn’t read anything again today!”
Thanks for the heads up on the Good Reads group and the sweet bookmarks. I’ll be briefly expressing my infinite summer feelings weekly at activitystory.com.
I’ll be blogging some responses over at Clinamen: http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/jbrown
I’m anticipating that my responses will be geared toward Wallace’s discussion of media (and technology more generally). I’m already seeing some interesting relationships between Infinite Jests and The Broom of the System…
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It won’t be glamorous, but I started a tumblr to track favorite quotes as I go along. Right now it’s tracking things I’m learning about DFW as I wait for June 21 (which is my 25th birthday, which somehow seems like a good milestone to start Infinite Jest with).
http://readinginfinitejest.tumblr.com/
Katie, I would love to contribute to this tumblr. I’ve been keeping track of my own favorites and am afraid of overwhelming my current (few) followers.
For anyone who is thinking about maybe taking the slower route through the book, there is a twitter feed that will send you 140 characters at a time every few days. I believe Marathe would refer to this as the delayed gratification that you U.S.A.s fail to embrace.
Hi, I will be modestly blogging my progress through the book (I just started) and have been reading through a lot of DFW essays and such in preparation. In that vein I’m just finishing up Everything and More, and I will say that I hope Infinite Jest requires nothing more mathematically complex from me than transfinite ordinals, which is already pushing it.
http://hedothepoliceman.wordpress.com
While I usually blog about YA lit, I plan to document my progress on my blog.
* Participating in Infinite Summer = check
* Bought the book = check
* Downloaded the bookmark and printed it on cardstock (nothing but the best here, thanks) = check
* Told all my friends, who are already annoyed with me = check
* Then blogged about it to boot (www.dragonflyeditorial.com/infinite-summer) = check
*Ready to start reading Sunday = yeah baby, let’s go … CHECK
Thanks for hosting this … can’t wait to participate. 🙂
ok,i may just have to start my blogging again on blogger. Also,while everyone blogs,is anyone willing to vlog their experience on youtube or something?
I’m also going to make a “modest attempt” (to borrow a phrase from a commenter above) to blog my IS experience.
Along with a few friends, we’re forming the San Francisco Infinite Summer Reading/Drinking Group. We’ll be meeting every other Tuesday at a different bar in the city to talk about the book over drinks.
Our first meetup will be June 23rd at Shotwell’s in the Mission.
I’ll be blogging about our progress on my blog at sexistentialcrisis.com
Follow me on twitter to keep up to date with our meetups (@zazenergy) or join our Google Group for updates!
http://groups.google.com/group/infinite-summer-sf
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I’m blogging too. Adding it to my otherwise mundane blog about life.
I’m on it.
I am gonna do a Sunday posts of the infinite summer both my boyfriend I will be reading it. I’ll try to post the most entertaining things from our correspondence.
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I’ll probably save any lengthy questions for discussion for the forums here, but I’ll be posting updates this summer on my Tubmlr site, The Negotiation Limerick File.
I’ll also be blogging along this summer at Aesthetics of Everywhere. Feel free to follow!
We’ll be blogging on the Afterword (the books blog at the National Post up here in Toronto).
We’re kinda like the unofficial Canadian chapter of Infinite Summer
I’ll be taking my second pass at Infinite Jest along with all of you. It’s genuinely thrilling to see the web work like this….love it ! I’m in Litchfield, Ct., for anyone in my neck of the woods…give me a shout.
Thanks for the props.
I will be there as long as I can hold onto my hat. Thanks you for the opportunity.
I am going to be vlogging my progress with the novel on my youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/musicislife00000
I can’t wait to get started!
I will be posting every now and then my progress on my blog – http://rancordtype.tumblr.com
I’ll be posting some things as I go on my tumblr.
This may be the perfect way to read IJ! I’ll be posting at Improprietary Code.
I’ll be documenting my reacquaintance with the tome that doubles as a weapon on my blog, too. Note to anyone living in the east-of-Los-Angeles exurbs: Wanna get some drinks and complain about footnotes?
You have to include me in the Infinite Summer reader/blogger/recruiter group! Like so many, I brought the behemoth home from the library a couple of years ago and also abandoned it at around page 100. This time, I’m in. I wrote a challenge blog post and Facebooked a challenge and picked up 4 readers. I’m also a blogger for Skirt! magazine’s online Jacksonville edition and issued an Infinite Jest Infinite Summer reading challenge there, too! Please make me part of the bloggers’ group – I need to keep myself accountable!
Hey, I’m on page 72 🙂
p.s. to the above comment.
I’ll be blogging my progress at http://www.atlanticbeachlife.com and at http://www.skirt.com in the ‘cities’ location for Jacksonville.
I’m blogging this experience as well, since Gossip Girl is on hiatus I should be okay.
What an opening! I want to get to know more about Hal and his communicationally challenged life. Being an avid tennis player, I am enjoying all the tennis images and jargon. Of course, not having a drug addiction or experience in that area, I am no longer clueless when it comes to the minutiae of the drug culture. And what an ego Wallace must have had to constantly bombard us with words like “dentate” “plexor”–I must remember to use that one the next time I see my primary doctor–and “annulation”.
As of now, I assume I have met most of the cast of characters, and I’m beginning to see a small connection with their possible interaction, especially that “snake” man.
I will be amending my usual book journal to include my Infinite Jest notes – words I had to look up, good quotes, etc.
Emdashes is in!
The calendars are great, but I’d love it all the more if they included the kindle milestones as well (since I’m opting out of lugging the brick around).
I’ll add that in for you.
I finished adding Kindle locations to the Google Calendar (and, thus, the iCal file). I prefixed them with a “k” (e.g. “p63 / k1522” is the first milestone).
I’m in too – will blog on my regular site and on Open Salon, where there’s sure to be lots of comments.
Praying I can stay on track….
Thank you for adding in the Kindle milestones!! It’s one of the pluses and minuses of the Kindle. I never know how much I’ve read or how much I have left. I mean I can see an approximation but it’s not the same as a bookmark in a physical book! But it also means I won’t feel as discouraged if it’s slow going and there looks to be miles to go!
You bet. Those Kindle location numbers are even more intimidating than the “real” page numbers. I use the Kindle app on my iPod touch sometimes, and I’m still getting used to those. But I went for a hard copy this time around.
I made a custom dust jacket when I began reading (2 or 3 summers ago…) It has 2 ribbons, for keeping your place in the text and in the endnotes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorywithserifs/2480198457/
I could whip up a few more and put them on Etsy if folks are interested.
i will be giving it a go this summer! 🙂
Thanks to Miklb for the IS bookmarks. I printed some out yesterday, and they’re very handy.
I will be resurrecting my short-lived anthropology blog as an Inifinite Summer blog.
http://humancomplex.blogspot.com
Every Wednesday I will be blogging on my Infinite Summer experience at
Love Your Copyeditor.
This will most likely take the form of various and sundry discussions of usage and prescriptive grammar and our dear Avril Incandenza, but probably will involve a lot of fangirl fawning as well.
This is my fourth time reading IJ, and i’m getting the most juice out of every word.
I’ll be Wednesday blogging on Wallace the philosopher (and IJ, of course) here as I work through my second read of IJ:
Brain Hammer
I’ll definitely be blogging. It’ll keep me on my toes!
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