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Reading Schedule: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust’s infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way. This is the first collaborative read we’re doing as part of the project (with another happening later this year for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey). If you’d like to…
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Collecting Butterflies
Dear Friend, All things must pass. So sings George Harrison, in one of my favorite songs (by one of my favorite singer-songwriters). Seeing as how this post comes about a week after the planned response date, it probably goes without saying that things–big things, little things; personal things, world things–have gotten in my way. That’s…
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Our 2025 Book Titles and Schedule #theCRPblog
Dear Friend, Last week, I put up a poll on Instagram asking if folks would prefer to know all the titles for the whole year or receive a slow trickle of titles closer to each month. The response was unanimous: you want to know the full schedule now! Fortunately, I planned well ahead, this time,…
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“Freedom of the Mind”: Into a New Year with The Little Prince
Dear Friend, A very happy new year to you and thank you for joining The Contemplative Reading Project for its sixth season! We have a lot of exciting things happening this year, including our first two collaborative reading projects (Proust’s Swann’s Way in February and March, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey in September!) Another book…