Overview, Major Themes, General Musings, Miscellaneous Topics...

* Yes because he never did a thing like that before

Part III Chapter 18 read by 5/25

* What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?

Part III Chapter 17 read by 5/18

* Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings

Part III Chapter 16 read by 5/11

*(The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown

Part II Chapter 15 (this is a long one!) read by 5/4

*Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus.

Part II Chapter 14 read by 4/27

*The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace.

Part II Chapter 13 read by 4/20

* I was just pasing the time of day with old Troy

Part II Chapter 12 read by 4/13

* Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.

Part II Chapter 11 read by 4/6

*The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S. J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket

Part II Chapter 10 read by 3/30

Urbane, to comfort them, the quaker librarian purred:

Part II Chapter 9 read by 3/23

Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl

Part II Chapter 8 read by 3/16

Before Nelson's pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley,

Part II Chapter 7 read by 3/9

Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking

Part II Chapter 6 read by 3/2

By lorries along sir John Rogerson's quay Mr Bloom walked soberly

Part II Chapter 5 read by 2/23

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts

Part II Chapter 4 read by 2/16

* Ineluctable modality of the visible:

Part I Chapter 3 read by 2/9

*- You, Cochrane, what city sent for him?

Part I Chapter 2 read by 2/2

* Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead

Part I, Chapter 1.
read by 1/26.
Discuss.

Joycean

Please, use this post to share Joycean references.

Who are you? Why are you reading? And the ground rules...

So each week we'll start a new post on Monday opening the next section of the book to comments. The idea is that all the content will be contained in the comments making it easy to read along at your own pace or refer back to comments or questions in a particular section of the book.

Anyone reading Ulyssess is welcome to join in the discussion. I hope for the most dynamic discussion we'll have a few readers keeping a similar pace through this challenging book. Please play nice and be respectful. We're doing this for fun. No plagairism. We'll be more impressed if you find and cite a great resource than if you steal someone else's work. On the same note, no stealing the words of the contributers here for your book report, College Boy.

Check in on and contribute to the posts with Resources for getting started as well as Joycean references.

Now tell us who you are and what interested you in reading Ulysses?

Online Resources for Joyce's Ulysses

I'll move some of these links to the sidebar as we get going. Feel free to add your own in the comments and I'll include the most useful ones.

Ulysses on Project Gutenberg contains free text and audio books.

On Bibliomania, you can find the text as well as notes.

Wikipedia links for James Joyce, his novel Ulysses, and Bloomsday.

Random links:
Ulysses the Blog! another group that took on the challenge. Fun to poke around, but I wanted to read along with a group in real time, and I had a different idea of how I wanted the multi-author blog to be structured.

Showing Joyce's influence at The Modern Word and Freebase.

Let's read James Joyce's Ulysses by Bloomsday 2009

Here is a suggested reading schedule we'll try to follow. New Section discussions will begin on Mondays. Comments can be added to any section in an ongoing basis.
Section 1: 1/26
Section 2: 2/2
Section 3: 2/9
Section 4: 2/16
Section 5: 2/23
Section 6: 3/2
Section 7: 3/9
Section 8: 3/16
Section 9: 3/23
Section 10: 3/30
Section 11: 4/6
Section 12: 4/13
Section 13: 4/20
Section 14: 4/27
Section 15: 5/4
Section 16: 5/11
Section 17: 5/18
Section 18: 5/25
Overview, Major Themes, Topics TBD: 6/1-6/15
Bloomsday: June 16, 2009