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!
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