The Big, Scary Read: 1book140's Discussion Schedule for October

1book140_icon.JPG We're heading into our inaugural October read with Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box.There's a lot of buzz in the (rapidly growing!) 1book140 community for this book, and even some talk about reading one of the runners-up, The Haunting of Hill House alongside Joe's  novel. I think that's a grand idea, and we'll set up a separate discussion schedule if enough people get behind it. (More on that later.)

Longtime bookies will note that we're condensing the conversation again, as we did for last month's selection (Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.) So please note that there will be only four hashes used for the entire month. This has the effect of reducing confusion and encouraging great conversation. The caveat I would add is for people to be careful about spoilers. 'Nuff said.

With those few notes aside, here's your discussion schedule, folks:

• Week One (October 3 - 12): Discuss Section I: "Black Dog," using #1b140_1 as a hashtag for your tweets.

• Week Two (October 12 - 19): Discuss Section II: "Ride On," using #1b140_2 for discussion.

• Week Three (October 20 - 26): Discuss Section III: "Hurt," using #1b140_3 for discussion.

• Week Four (October 27 - 31): Discuss Section IV: "Alive," using #1b140_4 for discussion.

A sidenote: Some quick-reading, 1book140 folk have started an interesting trend: Using the hashmark #1b140_x to discuss the book in its entirety. I recommend this for anyone who finishes the book early. As always, happy reading.

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Jeff Howe is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He helps run @1book140, The Atlantic's Twitter book club. More

Jeff Howe is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He previously worked as a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covered the media and entertainment industries. In June 2006 he published "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired. In September 2008 he published a book on the subject for Random House. The book has been translated into 11 languages. Before coming to Wired in 2001 he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his 20 years as a journalist he has traveled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the implications of gene patenting. He has written for Time, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

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