Group Reading: The Hobbit

The Philippine Tolkien Society is doing a fresh take on book clubs -- online group readings. It feels a bit strange when you first look at it, but it makes sense in this ever-increasingly webbed world. They are now doing it for The Hobbit, which caused ripples in the Middle Earth Grapevine because of the current debacle that led Peter Jackson to opt out of directing and producing the film adaptation.

If you want to group-read The Hobbit this holiday, what you do is you go to the TPTS website and read the instructions and sked. Then just show up online and read along with the group and post your comments, questions and profound (or trivial) realizations on the bulletin board.