This month's meeting will be held on Saturday, August 11 at 1PM. We'll post a meeting location once a room has been booked.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
July selection: Freakonomics
Aloha Bookworms! We're excited to announce that this month's selection is Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. We haven't read non-fiction in quite a while, so it should be a lot of fun to read this best-selling book!
Sunday, July 8, 2012
July selection: Let's vote!
Hey Bookworms! Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting today - it was a really great discussion!
Some great ideas also came up in discussion for possibilities for future meetings. There was talk about acting out a dinner mystery (the kind that's like a board game) for a month when mystery is our genre, as well as talk about potentially having a meeting with a local author (someone suggested Patricia McCarthy, who apparently writes vampire novels set in Ottawa). If you can build on these ideas or have any other suggestions, feel free to comment or email us!
At the meeting, we had a lot of novel suggestions as well, so we decided to skip the genre vote and go straight to voting for some of the suggested books. There's a really great variety, so take a look at the summaries on the sites provided to get a feel for the subject matter:
Some great ideas also came up in discussion for possibilities for future meetings. There was talk about acting out a dinner mystery (the kind that's like a board game) for a month when mystery is our genre, as well as talk about potentially having a meeting with a local author (someone suggested Patricia McCarthy, who apparently writes vampire novels set in Ottawa). If you can build on these ideas or have any other suggestions, feel free to comment or email us!
At the meeting, we had a lot of novel suggestions as well, so we decided to skip the genre vote and go straight to voting for some of the suggested books. There's a really great variety, so take a look at the summaries on the sites provided to get a feel for the subject matter:
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen)
- 20 000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12856474-20-000-leagues-under-the-sea)
- The Children of Men by P.D. James (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41913.The_Children_of_Men)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22)
Polls are up for both the book selection and the meeting date / time. Please head on over to the blog and make sure to vote for all the times that you are available, and for all the books you're interested in! Both polls will close at 11:59PM on Thursday, July 12 and we'll announce the winners on Friday.
Happy voting!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Meeting location update for July 8
Hi Bookworms,
I've just received confirmation that we can use the room UCU 207 for this month's meeting. It's located on the top floor of the University Center - if you're in the overpass with the Tim Horton's that connects the library to Montpetit building, UCU 207 is on the right just before you reach Montpetit.
This is actually a pretty nice room with lots of windows, so I'm thinking that we'll just meet there. If it's nice outside, we should be able to enjoy the sun through the windows anyway!
So I'll see you all in UCU207 at 1PM this Sunday! Bring any genre suggestions or book recommendations you might have!
I've just received confirmation that we can use the room UCU 207 for this month's meeting. It's located on the top floor of the University Center - if you're in the overpass with the Tim Horton's that connects the library to Montpetit building, UCU 207 is on the right just before you reach Montpetit.
This is actually a pretty nice room with lots of windows, so I'm thinking that we'll just meet there. If it's nice outside, we should be able to enjoy the sun through the windows anyway!
So I'll see you all in UCU207 at 1PM this Sunday! Bring any genre suggestions or book recommendations you might have!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Bonus Materials
Hello Bookworms!
I hope that you had a fabulous June filled with dark secrets, magical artwork and mysterious deaths - in our novel, of course!
I'm still waiting to get confirmation on the room location, so similar to last month, our Plan A will be to meet outside on the lawn between Morisset Library and Fauteux (outside the cafeteria), and our Plan B will be to meet wherever they decide to let us hold our meeting indoors! I'll update you as soon as I know the location.
I'd like to post next month's genre poll right after the meeting on Sunday to make sure we get the ball rolling as quickly as possible for next month. Bring your genre suggestions to the meeting, or submit them as a comment on this post or an email to uottawabookworms@gmail.com. Additionally, if you have a preference for meeting times, please let me know so that I can include those in our next meeting vote.
Now for the fun stuff! I've compiled some goodies about this month's book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde! The subject matter was... dark, to say the least, so I'm afraid the bonus materials aren't exactly pick-me-ups, but they're interesting nonetheless! Feel free to check out these links:
I hope that you had a fabulous June filled with dark secrets, magical artwork and mysterious deaths - in our novel, of course!
I'm still waiting to get confirmation on the room location, so similar to last month, our Plan A will be to meet outside on the lawn between Morisset Library and Fauteux (outside the cafeteria), and our Plan B will be to meet wherever they decide to let us hold our meeting indoors! I'll update you as soon as I know the location.
I'd like to post next month's genre poll right after the meeting on Sunday to make sure we get the ball rolling as quickly as possible for next month. Bring your genre suggestions to the meeting, or submit them as a comment on this post or an email to uottawabookworms@gmail.com. Additionally, if you have a preference for meeting times, please let me know so that I can include those in our next meeting vote.
Now for the fun stuff! I've compiled some goodies about this month's book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde! The subject matter was... dark, to say the least, so I'm afraid the bonus materials aren't exactly pick-me-ups, but they're interesting nonetheless! Feel free to check out these links:
- An interesting 8-minute animated adaptation of the novel: http://vimeo.com/26229857
- Analysis of themes, motifs and symbols: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/themes.html
- Important quotations explained: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/quotes.html
- Quotable quotes from the novel (didn't Lord Henry Wotton have some spectacular lines?): http://classiclit.about.com/od/pictureofdoriangray/a/aa_picturequote.htm
- Film adaptations:
- 2009: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235124/
- 2007: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435669/
- 1945: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/
- A bit about the scandalous Oscar Wilde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
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