See what it feels like
No signup. Just a look inside one circle.
A guided demo. The circle and its members are fictional. This is just to show how it feels.
The circle
Five strangers reading The Left Hand of Darkness
You know each other only by codename until the very end. Nobody moves ahead alone. The next checkpoint opens only when everyone finishes this one.
Checkpoint 3 · Chapters 7–9
The Time Capsule
You can't read anyone's notes for a checkpoint you haven't reached yet. Your circle has finished Chapter 9. You haven't. Here's your own note, and four sealed ones.
The shifgrethor etiquette keeps tripping me up, but I can't stop thinking about it.
The ice imagery is doing so much work. Gethen's cold is basically a character.
I keep bracing for Estraven to betray everyone. I hope I'm wrong about that.
“Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light.”
I didn't trust Estraven at first. Now I feel a little ashamed of that.
And at the end
Finish the book, and the circle opens
Real names, a yearbook of your best moments, your reading history, and a stitched commentary track of the whole read.