Ulysses Readalong

I'll post the thread [on the Book Talk Forum] and everyone can comment it when he is over with the reading or ask questions through the reading. I think two weeks time should be suitable but everyone can take his own time. I'll post thread in two weeks' time and make them reachable on my bookshelf and in the blog. The threads will be always reacheable for people posting late or latejoiners.
--Eilan86

These are the participants:
gypsysmom
tom-m
mojosmom
GoryDetails
SirRoy
Rico-Verde
elhamisabel
Gizmopuddy
Lindlec
Cassiopaia
mirp

And the schedule:
(with links to the appropriate Book Talk Forum Threads):
Because this text is difficult, threads will be spaced at two week intervals. People can discuss, comment, or ask questions *while* they are reading each part as well as commenting afterwards.
- Thread 1, Jan. 9th, Telemachus - Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan, and Haines at the Martello tower. [final sentence: "Usurper."] *active*
- Thread 2, Jan. 27th, Nestor - Stephen Dedalus teaching at a boys' school; meeting with the headmaster, Mr Deasy. [final sentence: "On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins."]*active*
- Thread 3, Feb. 10th, Proteus - Stephen Dedalus on the beach. [final sentence: "Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship."]
- Thread 4, Feb. 24th, Calypso - Leopold Bloom gets up, has breakfast, and goes to the outhouse. [final sentence: "Poor Dignam!"]
- Thread 5, Mar. 10th, Lotus Eaters - Leopold Bloom goes to the post office, chemist's, and public bath. [final clause: "[...] and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower."]
- Thread 6, Mar. 24th, Hades - Leopold Bloom attends a funeral. [final sentence: "How grand we are this morning."]
- Thread 7, Apr. 7th, Aeolus - Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus (separately) at the newspaper office. [final sentence: "Tickled the old ones too, Myles Crawford said, if the God Almighty's truth was known."]
- Thread 8, Apr. 21st, Lestrygonians - Leopold Bloom has lunch at a pub. [final sentence: "Safe!"]
- Thread 9, May. 5th, Scylla & Charybdis - Stephen Dedalus at the National Library discusses Hamlet. Leopold Bloom goes to the Library also, but the two don't meet. [final clause: "[...] From our bless'd altars."]
- Thread 10, May. 19th, Wandering Rocks - The simultaneous wanderings of various characters through the streets of Dublin. [final clause: "[...] and the salute of Almidano Artifoni's sturdy trousers swallowed by a closing door."]
- Thread 11, Jun. 2nd, Sirens - Leopold Bloom has dinner at the Ormand Hotel & listens to Simon Dedalus sing. Meanwhile Molly Bloom entertains her lover. [final sentence: "Done."]
- Thread 12, Jun. 16th Bloomsday, Cyclops - Narrated by an unknown person, this episode takes place in a pub where Leopold Bloom goes to meet Martin Cunningham. He's chased out by the anti-semitic, ultra-nationalist "Citizen". [final sentence: "And they beheld Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohoe's in Little Green Street like a shot off a shovel."]
- Thread 13, Jun. 30th, Nausicaa - Leopold Bloom watches Gerty McDowell on the beach and masturbates. [final clause: "[...] and she noticed at once that that foreign gentleman that was sitting on the rocks looking was Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo"]
- Thread 14, Jul. 14th, The Oxen of the Sun - Leopold Bloom meets Stephen Dedalus who is drinking with Buck Mulligan and other medical students at a maternity hospital where Mina Purefoy is giving birth. [final sentence: "Just you try it on."]
- Thread 15, Jul. 28th, Circe - Leopold Bloom follows Stephen Dedalus to Bella Cohen's brothel. [final sentence: "A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)"]
- Thread 16, Aug. 4th, Eumaeus - Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus go to a cabmen's shelter. [final sentence: "As they walked, they at times stopped and walked again, continuing their tête-à-tête (which of course he was utterly out of), about sirens, enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category, usurpers, historical cases of the kind while the man in the sweeper car or you might as well call it in the sleeper car who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street and looked after their lowbacked car."]
- Thread 17, Aug. 18th, Ithaca - Leopold Bloom takes Stephen Dedalus home, but Stephen refuses an invitation to spend the night. [final sentence: "Where?"]
- Thread 18, Sep. 1st, Penelope - Molly Bloom's soliloquy. [final word: "Yes."]

And some other useful links:
- our book online and for free at Project Gutenberg!
- our book online and for free with notes at Bibliomania
- The Brazen Head, a wonderful Joyce site with advice for first-time readers of Ulysses
- Notes giving the schemata, correspondence to the Odyssey and commentary for each episode
- an easy-to-read table giving the Gilbert schemata
- Ulysses on Wikipedia--beware of spoilers!
- Cliff's Notes on the novel, including chapter synopses and study questions.