Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

Reading Schedule

We’ve developed a reading schedule; so for the next six weeks, you can follow along with the readers and discuss the same passages that they’re dissecting.

Week 1 & 2 - Ending Sunday, November 23
Finish Free Women 1 and The Notebooks
End Page - Online: 206 (UK: 229; US: 241)

Week 3 - November 23 through November 30
Free Women 2 and The Notebooks
Start page - Online: 207 (UK: 233; US: 245)
End page - Online: 292 (UK: 326; US: 351)

Week 4 - November 30 through December 7
Free Women 3 and The Notebooks
Start page - Online: 293 (UK: 329; US: 355)
End page - Online: 391 (UK: 441; US: 481)

Week 5 - December 7 through December 14
Free Women 4 and The Notebooks
Start page - Online: 392 (UK: 445; US: 485)
End page - Online: 464 (UK: 528; US: 579)

Week 6 - December 14 through December 21
The Golden Notebook and Free Women 5
Start page - Online: 465 (UK: 531; US: 583)
End page - Online 503 (UK: 576; US: 635)

kathleen
on November 20th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

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The Golden Notebook is a collaboration between if:book London and Apt.

Principal funding by Arts Council England.

HarperCollins, the publisher of The Golden Notebook, digitized the book for us and generously gave permission to reproduce it here in its entirety at no cost.

Additional support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and New York University

Recent comments:

Lenelle Moïse on Page 373 (July 11, 2010)
"Today - years after TGN Project launched - I am rereading Adrienne..."
Naomi Alderman on Resting Here: (February 17, 2009)
"Oh Lenelle, you’ve said a lot of things I wanted to..."
Philippa Levine on Final thoughts (February 10, 2009)
"Trying to wrap up what the experience of sharing The..."
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Final thoughts (February 9, 2009)
"“But I feel I can see in this book, and in..."
Harriet Rubin on and… (February 9, 2009)
"Laura, you’ve said more clearly what I meant: that..."
Laura Kipnis on and… (February 6, 2009)
"That’s interesting as I actually found that the Brutalman..."
Harriet Rubin on and… (February 5, 2009)
"I enjoyed this experience of reading in public for a great..."
Lenelle Moïse on Feminist manifesto in 2008…? (January 6, 2009)
"I’m with you, Nona. As someone..."
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Page 503 (January 2, 2009)
"Maybe it’s just me, but this ending seemed almost..."
Philippa Levine on Page 503 (December 31, 2008)
"I suspect you’re right about this, Laura. It’s an..."
Philippa Levine on Page 410 (December 31, 2008)
"I don’t know how much difference it would make if we..."
Philippa Levine on Page 486 (December 31, 2008)
"I do think of it as a realist novel, yes. We’re not..."
Laura Kipnis on Page 503 (December 31, 2008)
"I was stunned to read in the after-matter section (in the UK..."
Laura Kipnis on Page 486 (December 31, 2008)
"Do you really think of this as a realist novel, Philippa? The..."
Laura Kipnis on Page 485 (December 31, 2008)
"This is romantic–or at least collaborative: it’s Saul..."
Naomi Alderman on Page 410 (December 30, 2008)
"Yes, I agree about the publishing industry. It’s mostly..."
Naomi Alderman on Page 410 (December 30, 2008)
"“She was Sumo sized, dressed like the farmer in the dell,..."
Naomi Alderman on Page 410 (December 30, 2008)
"“The male world demands male ideas, voices, and..."
Naomi Alderman on Page 410 (December 30, 2008)
"OK, many of the things being said in this thread are quite..."
Harriet Rubin on Page 410 (December 30, 2008)
"I wish I could make my point better, because I think it is..."

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