T H E T E N T H O U S A N D D O O RS O F J A N U A R Y - Questions courtesy of The Gloss Book Club 1. Did you enjoy the book? Rate it from 1 - 5. 2. Do you normally read fantasy?Is this a book you would you have chosen yourself? 3. The Ten ThousandDoors of January could be described as a coming-of-age novel. How does January change overthe course of the novel? What does she learn? 4.In what way does Cornelius Locke treat January as one of his specimens? 5. The main events of the plot take place in 1911. Why do you think the book is set in this time period? How would the story change if it was set earlier orlater? 6. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is written as a book within a book. Why do you think the author decided to frame the story this way? How does it relate to the themes surrounding doors? 7. January and her friends read a lot of early-twentieth-century fiction: boys' adventure stories, serialized novels, and story papers. How do those stories influence the way she