January Book(s)!! + No meeting in December

Hey guys! Sorry for not being present at the last meeting. But from what we heard, you guys had a great time + a wonderful book suggestion for the next meeting.

Since we decided that December will be a hard time to schedule a meetup (due to exams and holidays), we will have our next meeting in January! Because of this LONG period of not seeing all your wonderful faces, we will select two books to read for January's meeting.

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hey guys, the next meeting is coming up! The date's this Sunday, November 16th from 13:00 to 15:00 in FSS rooms 2022 and 2013 (both small rooms were booked but we'll probably only need one so you could move your chairs from one room to the other or something like that).

Sadly, Stella, Ashley and I can't make it this time around but we encourage you all to come. Also, if any of you could write down what books you want to read for the next meeting then that would be great! 

Have fun :)

- Juwairiya

November Meeting Date and Time

The next meeting date is confirmed. We will meet November 16th (1pm - 3pm). We will update you guys on the room (but we are thinking of meeting at FSS).

(Stella and I will be away at a conference during that time but our vice president, Juwairiya, will be present.)

Poll: November Meeting Time

We just revealed yesterday what book we are reading for the month of October, so it is the time to start the polling for November's meeting time.

Please direct yourself to the doodle poll (this time I didn't mess up the time!....I think).

Remember, our October Read is The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith.

Coming from Behind: Our October Read Has Been Decided!

My oh my, if you have been following the poll for our October Read, you were given a dramatic finale!

For the longest time, it was a battle between Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. But your votes are in! For October, we will read......

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo’s Calling received 13 votes. While Mistborn and The Alchemist tied for 2nd with 12 votes.

Thank you all for voting! Now happy reading!

Vote for our October Book of the Month!

Thank you for such a wonderful start to a new year of Bookworms. We met some new and returning faces during our first meeting. We hope to see you next time!

Now, it's up to you to vote on the book we will read in October. Some really great suggestions were made during our first meeting. The poll is live on our website and can be found on the right hand site of the webpage. You can vote for more than one book if more than one interests you. Sounds good?

Here are your nominees:

Misborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Wee Free Man by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
The Diviners by Libba Bray. (You can buy this at Chapters for $5.69 right now. Choose the "ship to store" option to avoid shipping fees.)

You have until 10:00 PM Wednesday, October 8th to vote.


Stella and the uOttawa Bookworms team.

First Meeting Place and Time

Hi Bookworms! Finally our first meeting time and place are confirmed!

Topic: Favourites (books, genres, authors etc)
Where: Space just outside Desmarais 2170.
When: Sat Oct 4, from 1-3pm.

Stella and I will bring some refreshments. Feel free to bring in anything you want. :)

Can't wait to meet everyone there! :)

A special thanks goes to Eric Wilkinson, who was able to provide the meeting space for us! And thank you Kailey Olszewski, who actively helped us resolved booking troubles.

Vote for your first meeting time of the semester!!

Welcome back Bookworms! It is the time to vote for the first meeting time of the semester! We are so pleased that a lot of new individuals have shown interests in the club. So we are extra please to have our first meeting to get to know everyone. :)

We are doing something a little more different. Instead of putting a poll directly on our website, we are making the poll on Doodle. Please head over and vote for the times you like to meet in this doodle poll.

Now let me stop talking and have you go back to reading or studying or whatever you are doing.

New Executive Positions for the 2014 - 2015 year.

It is about to be that time of the year again. We want to continue this amazing club so if you want to be one of the executives of the uOttawa Bookworms for the upcoming school year, please send us an email at uottawabookworms@gmail.com.

Let us know a bit about yourself and why you want to help organize our little group

Positions Open:
1) Vice-President:
We are looking for someone who loves to read and has great leadership capabilities. Your role, if you choose to accept it will be to take on the responsibilities of the Co-Presidents in their absence, which include: 

1. monitor the Club's email account, 
2. update and create interesting content for the Club's website and Facebook page, 
3. Construct book recommendations list and curate the monthly reading poll.   
4. promote the club in person and online.
5. willing to have fun! :)

2) Treasurer
In our previous years as a club, the uOttawa Bookworms never utilized any financial subsidies provided to us by the SFUO. This year, we would like someone to take on the responsibility of Treasurer and manage the club's finances. If you have experience with managing simple finances, WE WANT YOU. For a start, we would really like you to look into obtaining a bank account for the club: SFUO Bank Account. In addition to that endeavor, a treasurer should also oversee all financial dealings in relation to the club, including keeping a record of each dealing. . 

Do either role sounds like it may fit you? Don't hesitate to send us an email at uOttawaBookworms@gmail.com if you're up for the job. The deadline to apply is August 31st, 2014.

Meeting Place Change

Hi Bookworms,

Do you like surprises? I sure do. So, apparently Community Life Services, the place where we pick up the keys to our booked room, works from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Imagine the look on my face when I went there at 4:00 pm to pick up our key for UCU301.

I'm so sorry about this booboo; instead of meeting in an actual room, our Sunday meeting will be held outside of Room UCU206/207 (where the lounge chairs are located.)

I promise not to deliver anymore scary surprises like this in the future.

See you soon!

(The very, very sorry) Stella

See you on Sunday, May 18th

Hi bookworms!

Thank you for taking the time to vote on when we should meet for our next Bookworms meeting!

As you can see by the title of this post, we will meet on Sunday, May 18th, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. in UCU 301. This is a different room from where we usually meet and is located one level above the Tim Hortons in UCU.

We cannot wait to see you!

The uOttawaBookworms Team.

May Meeting Time

Hi Bookworms!

You guys have chosen to read Cinder by Marissa Meyer for the month of May. You had me at cyborg cinderella.

We are trying out a new polling system this month, utilizing Doodle to organize the meeting time poll. For those who haven't used Doodle before, simply do to the doodle link below and check off all of the times that suits you. The one (or two depending on how many people votes) that get(s) the highest vote will be our May meeting time!

So summarize the time options,
I didn't know which date you guys would like to meet so I left it pretty open. You can vote for any date between May 15th - May 31st.

Mondays and Wednesdays: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays have 3 times to choose from:
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Here is the link to the poll. Make sure you expand the page so you can see all of the available options.
Doodle will ask you for to submit your name, just your first name, or even nickname is fine. We're not serious people here, so if you want to be Bilbo Baggins for the day, you can! :) Voting ends Thursday, May 8th at 10:00 pm.
http://doodle.com/2yazxws7w8wdctd9

Also, I would really appreciate feedback on this new polling method.

We can't wait to see you guys again. Happy reading!

The Bookworms Team.

Bookworms, get ready to read in May

Hi Bookworms! We've received some very exciting recommendations this May for our bookworm meeting. Here is the list of books you guys recommended, along with a few sentences on what that book is about. Once again, we have the poll up on our website and you're allowed to choose more than one book if you cannot pick a favourite. (Yes, they all sound so spectacular!) Voting starts today and ends on May 3rd, Saturday night at 11 pm. 

Heaven Can Wait by Cally Taylor: Lucy is a ghost stuck in limbo, but as it turns out, limbo is a grotty student-style house in North London. She has 21 days to help her geeky friend find a girlfriend, or she'll never be with her fiance, Dan, again.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion: A lonely genetics professor sets out to look for love when he meets Rosie, who is looking for a DNA expert to help her find her biological father.

The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert: Romance at the 1898 Omaha World Fair between a ventriloquist and an actress at the Midway's Chamber of Horrors.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: A memoir of the Walls children as they struggle through life with an alcoholic father and a mother who doesn't want a family.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer; Cyborg Cinderella in a dystopian setting.

Watership Down by Richard Adams: Story of a band of rabbits fighting against the intrusion of man and the destruction of their home.

Next week, we will have another poll up for you to vote on when our meeting shall be!

Talk to you soon!

The Bookworms Team

Bookworms in the Summer

Hi Bookworms! We haven't spoken to each other for quite some time and we've all missed your faces.

I hope all of your exams are going well, and you are in a mood to read more books. Why? Because the uOttawa Bookworms will continue to meet throughout the summer!

We have received two recommendations so far for what should read in May. If you have any other books that you want to read, be sure to fill out a Recommendations form on our website! Or post on our Facebook Page wall with your recommendations

Click on the titles below to read what each book is about.

1) Heaven Can Wait by Cally Taylor
2) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

See you guys in May. :)

The uOttawaBookworms Team.

Our Meeting in March

Hey guys, some good news and some bad news regarding this month's meeting.

I just heard back from Gwen, the clubs coordinator at the SFUO, that rooms on March the 15th are all booked up. With that said, Sunday, March 23rd is still a go!

If you guys have another time in mind to hold our second meeting within the month, please let us know immediately so we can book another room at another time. If not, we will be having only one meeting this month.

As of right now, our meeting in March will be on:
Sunday, March 23rd. 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm, in UCU 206

Winner Winner

Chicken Dinner.

Or if you would rather have butterbeer, that's also fine.

As you might have guessed, you guys have chosen to read the book that shall not be named...

Okay. Okay. I'm done with all of my jokes. It's time to decide when our own little Order of the Phoenix shall meet. If the results of the voting are close, we will hold two meetings in March to cater to your availability. Because of this, you will only be allowed to select one option in the poll.

• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 8th 
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 9th
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 15h
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 16th 
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Saturday March 22nd
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Sunday March 23rd

The poll will close this Wednesday at 9:00 pm.

Platform 9 3/4 awaits.

Stella 

(P.S.: If anyone still wants their copy of The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness, even though we're not reading it for book club can send us an email and we can arrange a time for you to pick it up.)

New Poll: What To Read in March

Thank you everyone for all of the suggestions for next month's pick. Boy, do we have an exciting month in front of us!

Here are what you have suggested we read:

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
2) Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
3) Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
4) Calvin and Hobbes
5) The Giver by Lois Lowry
6) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
7) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8) Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 
9) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
10 Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls



The poll is now open and will close on Sunday, February 23rd, at 11:00 pm (23:00).

Happy Reading.

Stella.

What should we read next month?

Hello everyone,

I hope you guys are all enjoying your Reading Week. Perhaps, you are catching up on some Olympics action, or enjoying your mom's homemade meals. Either way, we cannot wait to see you next month.

For next month, it was suggested we read something from our childhood, something nostalgic. Here are four suggestions, but please fill out one of our Recommendation/Feedback forms on our website if you have something else in mind.

1) The first book in the Harry Potter series
2) Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
3) Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
4) Calvin and Hobbes

We wish everyone an awesome Reading Week and happy reading.

Stella

Our next meeting will be held in....

The room is booked, so let's start reading! :)
This month, we will continue our tradition and meet in UCU 206.

Straying away from the usual, our meeting will be held on Sunday, February 16th, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

See you then!

Stella

Confessions of a Bookaholic: Next Meeting Time.

The votes are in. Our next read is Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic!

Now we have to decide on the next meeting time. Below are the options, please vote for your preferred times in the poll (right side bar).

• Feb 15, 12:30 to 3
• Feb 16, 12:30 to 3
• Feb 22, 12:30 to 3
• Feb 23, 12:30 to 3

Because of the break, we will only have ONE meeting this month.

(Sorry, if I am not as witty as Stella in writing these posts. I hope the below image makes it up for it.)

Chick-lit February

Lately, we have been reading some pretty heavy books, including Vicious and American Gods. It was brought up during our last meeting that maybe we should read something light and funny for February. It seems like most of you guys agree with the change. Get ready to be swept away by Sophie Kinsella!

A new poll is now up on the Bookworms' website to select which Kinsella book we will dive into in February. Here are your nominees:

1) Confessions of a Shopaholic 

2) Can You Keep a Secret?

3) The Undomestic Goddess

4) Remember Me?

5) Twenties Girl

6) I've Got Your Number

7) Wedding Night

The poll is now open and will run until 10:00 pm Sunday, January 26th.

So get voting and have a great weekend. :)

Stella

Goodbye January, Hello February.

Thank you for everyone who came out and discussed Vicious/American Gods this month. It was really nice to hear your thoughts on Victor, Eli and Shadow - three very different characters.

Here are what you guys suggested for next month's pick:

1. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness*
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer 
3. Austenland by Shannon Hale
4. A Sophie Kinsella book
5. A ghost story anthology 
6. A short story collection by Alice Munro

*The Penguin Press has kindly provided 25 copies of The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness for our book club. If The Crane Wife wins February's poll, we will arrange times where Ashley and I can bring the books on campus and we can distribute them out to any who wants a copy for next month's meeting. :)

The poll is now open and will close Thursday morning at 10:00 am.
And remember to like us on Facebook so you can get updates as well.
https://www.facebook.com/UOttawaBookworms

Have a lovely weekend! :)
Stella