Feb 18 2008
Literary
Dandelion Wine Summer Reading Schedule
Dandelion Wine is not divided by formal chapters, which makes it a little difficult to indicate where to stop and start. My own edition is a hardcover version published by William Morrow in 2001 and I will list the page numbers in the post that announces the weekly reading assignment, but they will not work for everyone.
I have given basic titles to what I perceive to be chapters of sorts with the first and last lines of our reading sections in italics and parenthesis. Hopefully this will not prove to be too difficult to navigate and we can all enjoy the wonderful summer sensation of Ray Bradbury’s absolutely beautiful novel.
For the Week of June 8th
Summer 1928 (“It was a quiet morning…)
Alive
Dandelions (“Dandelion wine. Dandelion wine. Dandelion wine.”)
June 15th
Boys of Summer (“You did not hear them coming…”)
New Shoes
Ceremonies & Revelations
The Swing (“…into the coming years.”)
June 22th
Invent a Happiness Machine (“In front of
the United Cigar Store…”)
Waiting for Doug (“It was.”)
June 29h
Lena (“Late at night…”)
Mowing the Lawn
The Happiness Machine
Rugs (“…forever before their eyes.”)
July 6th
Mrs. Bentley (“How it began…”)
Old People never were children
Time Machine
Far Traveling (“It sure sounds lonely.”)
July 13th
Green Machine (“Bang!”)
The Trolley
John Huff
(“He Tries.”)
July 20th
Elmira Brown (“She came out of the
bathroom…”)
Magic (“…his eyes mysteriously.”)
July 27rd
Colonel Freeleigh (“And then there is that day…”)
Closing of a window
Dandelion Wine (“..will do it!)
August 3rd
Helen Loomis (“And out there in the middle of the day…”)
Happy Endings (“…is all.”)
August 10th
The Lonely One (“The courthouse clock…”)
“I could drink that…”
August 17th
Great Grandma (“She was a woman with a broom…”)
Fireflies
The Tarot Witch (“Hey…”)
August 24th
Cicadas (“Faintly…”)
Mr. Jonas
Doug’s sick
Summer Rain (“…yellow Ticonderoga pencil…”)
August 31st
Aunt Rose (“There was a great flurry of arrival…”)
Summer’s Over (“Summer, 1928.)