Books of Jacob Slow Read Review

Over six months we have done a slow read of Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob. In this live stream I looked back over the experience and shared what I learned re-reading this “decade-defining book.

If you have only just discovered this slow read there is some good news over the next few months I will repost the weekly chapter-by-chapter guides to character and context to Notes.

You can look back over the Slow Read at any time at the Slow Reads page. Every post is hyper-lined, so you can read through The Books of Jacob at your own pace.

Or you can follow along with the weekly re-run via Notes.

In the Live Stream I discussed:

• Thanks to all who participated and commented during the Slow Read

• Reflections on the Slow Read Experience

• Announcement of the re-run of the Slow Read

• Learning about Judaism

• False and Flawed Messiahs

• Multicultural, transnational Europe

• Women in history

• Tokarczuk’s tender narration of history

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video!