Old Blues Chapter and Verse | Oscar and Lucinda: Readalong Announcement @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
To dovetail with Victober, I'll be hosting an October readalong of one of my favorite novels of all-time: Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda. Please join in, especially if you'll be coming to it the first time.

The reading schedule is thus:

Chapters 1-32 - for October 9th
Chapters 33-57 - for October 16th
Chapters 58-79 - for October 23rd
Chapters 80-111 - for October 30th

Here is a link to a series of annotations that Peter Carey did in 2013. See the annotations for pages 339 and 342 to get a sense, in his own words, of what I discuss near the end of this video and why the American first edition hardcover is to be avoided at all costs:

theguardian.com/books/interactive/2013/may/18/peter-carey-oscar-lucinda-annotations

Here is the link to my video on Neo-Victorian Fiction:

youtube.com/watch?v=X2LFDY-kGAQ&t=2s

The music paying behind the intro in this announcement video is "Prince Rupert's Drop," from Thomas Newman's original score of Oscar and Lucinda, the 1997 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong. Obviously, I neither own nor claim to own the rights to it, and fully and happily concede that whatever monies result from eventual monetization of this video be turned over to the copyright holder on that piece of music.

Thanks to my wife Kelly and my friend Thomas for their technical assistance in the making of this video.

#readalong #victober2021