Children's Literature; Let's Pick a Date

I've failed you again, Bookworms.  At our last meeting those who attended were kind enough to furnish us with several suggestions for our children's lit theme, which I entered into my phone.  I have somehow lost this virtual note, so we're going to pick our meeting date first to give those people who made suggestions a chance to resuggest them.  Here are the ones I remember, and those submitted by email, if yours isn't among them, please email it to us by Saturday at 10am: Anne of Green Gables, Star Girl, The Golden Compass, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The Hunger Games.

In regards to the meeting date, a couple people have mentioned that they can't make it to Sunday meetings, so we're offering a Monday option for November.  Vote using the blog poll by Saturday morning at 10, and we'll get back on track with picking our book!

Welcome Back!

Hope everyone had a lovely reading week! The next meetings genre is going to be Children's Lit! We got a couple suggestions at the last meeting, but if you have anymore suggestions to what we should read email them to us by Wednesday at Midnight!

Happy Haunting! (since its Halloween and all!)

Meeting Location

Our meeting this month will be in Monpetit room 202, which has audio-visual capabilities so we can watch our movie.  We'll hope to see you there!

Movie It Is!

Ok, people seem keen to watch the movie, so at our October meeting we'll have that to add to our discussion.  Happy reading, and we'll hope to see you on the 16th!

A Study in Scarlet

The votes are in an we'll be reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, the novel A Study in Scarlet.  And as mentioned in our previous post, the meeting will be on Sunday October 16th at 11:30am.

Now, as older members know, if there's a movie that has been based on the book we're reading oftentimes we'll watch it.  There are no faithful film adaptations of this novel (according to wikipedia; if you know otherwise feel free to correct me), however the first episode of the 2010 BBC series Sherlock--which was mentioned briefly in our last meeting--A Study in Pink, is a loose adaptation of the novel, and retains many of its core elements.  The episode is 90 minutes long and can pretty much stand alone.  It's set in modern times, stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, and is pretty awesome.  I was thinking it might be a fun addition to our meeting to watch it together, but it might not be up everyone's alley, so let's put it to a vote.  Have your say on the blog poll by Sunday at 4:00pm.   

Mixed Bag October!

We had a great turnout at Sunday's meeting; thank you to all the members, old and new, who came out and made our discussion such a success! 

Since we had such a large group we collected book suggestions for October's meeting on the spot, and we also decided on the meeting date: Sunday October 16th.  Since October has Thanksgiving and Reading Week that's pretty much the only available weekend. 

Our book suggestions were all over the place, so we decided not to bother sticking to a specific genre for this month, and have instead declared it Mixed Bag October (or MBO if you prefer).  Vote for your favourite on the blog poll by Friday at 10:00am and we'll post the results shortly thereafter. 

Meeting Location

Good news, Bookworms: we've got a real room!  Room 215 in the University Center (UCU) to be precise.  For anyone new, the UCU is the the skinny building between Monpetit and Morriset.

We'll hope to see a bunch of you there on Sunday for some Game of Thrones fun.