#ReadingTheStone Returns! S2 Episode 1 Our First Eighty Chapters of Reading Together
#ReadingTheStone14 Tammi 2023

#ReadingTheStone Returns! S2 Episode 1 Our First Eighty Chapters of Reading Together

#ReadingTheStone had our first Saturday chat of the new year, on January 14, 2023. Last we left off, we had read up to Chapter 80 - and in this first session of the new year, we discussed the textual history of Story of the Stone, how readers and scholars have differentiated between the first 80 chapters (understood to be definitively penned by Cao Xueqin) and the remaining 40 that make up the entire text. Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen are joined by our stalwart reading group members in a wide-ran...

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Stories for Kate Episode 3: Not quite Persuasion, but the best company

Stories for Kate Episode 3: Not quite Persuasion, but the best company

We didn't quite manage to chat at length about Persuasion as we had planned, but we definitely shared a few stories for Kate! Original grapes Eily, Jen, Yazmin, and Eileen were back, but a few of Kate...

13 Syys 20231h 16min

#ReadingTheStone Season 3 - Stories For Kate Episode 2: Valley Girl, like totally

#ReadingTheStone Season 3 - Stories For Kate Episode 2: Valley Girl, like totally

The grapes return for another episode of 'Stories for Kate.' This time we do a deep dive into Martha Coolidge's 1983 indie classic Valley Girl, starring a young Deborah Foreman and Nicholas Cage. We t...

9 Syys 202355min

#ReadingTheStone Season 3: Stories for Kate! Ep 1 Preamble: Foundational Romances

#ReadingTheStone Season 3: Stories for Kate! Ep 1 Preamble: Foundational Romances

#ReadingTheStone Season 3: We have ventured a bit far afield from Story of the Stone and 18th century Chinese mansions for now, as Season 3 will be stories for (and about) Kate - in which we talk abou...

5 Syys 202336min

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 10 Fellowship of The Stone: our post-120 wrap-up chat

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 10 Fellowship of The Stone: our post-120 wrap-up chat

[Originally recorded on March 25, 2023] "The Fellowship of the Stone" (thank you to one of the episode guests for our new sobriquet!) reconvened for a post #ReadingTheStone wrap-up episode. We welcom...

26 Maalis 202359min

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 9 On Baoyu's Farewell, and Ours - Reaching Chapter 120

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 9 On Baoyu's Farewell, and Ours - Reaching Chapter 120

[Originally recorded on 3-11-2023] We recorded our first #ReadingTheStone Saturday chat on April 2, 2022, and now nearly 12 months later, we say farewell to Story of the Stone, as we reach Chapter 1...

12 Maalis 20231h 3min

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 8: On Haunted Near Endings - the Penultimate Episode of the Jias

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 8: On Haunted Near Endings - the Penultimate Episode of the Jias

[Originally recorded on 3-4-23] “Before one disaster is over, here’s another!” Pretty much sums up all the chapters lately. - Dani Our heroic trio Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen are reunited (thank you Shel...

12 Maalis 20231h

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 7 On Justice and Retribution, and Sea Otter Pelts

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 7 On Justice and Retribution, and Sea Otter Pelts

[Originally recorded on 2-25-2023] Waiyee and Eileen had other commitments this week, but Ann led the #ReadingTheStone group in a rich discussion of Chapters 105-109, on the dual plot strands of Baoy...

11 Maalis 202356min

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 6: On the Postlapsarian, and also surprisingly, Jia Zheng

#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 6: On the Postlapsarian, and also surprisingly, Jia Zheng

[Originally recorded on 2-18-23] As #ReadingTheStone enters its final dozen chapters, we find ourselves ruminating over the postlapsarian state of things: the scattering and banishment of most everyo...

27 Helmi 202352min

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