First Book Night Redeux

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Time: March 30, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: Katie and Aaron's Place
Street: Clark and Leland
City/Town: Chicago
Phone: 312.307.9481
Event Type: social
Organized By: Aaron Bussey
Latest Activity: Apr 1, 2011

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Due to the blizzard and medical emergencies our first meeting was cancelled. This night will be a discussion of our first book, Velocity and a new addition, Candide by Voltaire.

See you then. Bring your mind, an urge for discourse and maybe some wine.

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Comment by Caitlin on March 31, 2011 at 8:54am: Good stuff! Thanks for setting it up and hosting.

Comment by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on March 30, 2011 at 11:42pm: yeah that was a dandy.

Comment by Kevin C Dormant on March 30, 2011 at 11:16pm: OK. So that was really fun. Can't wait for the next one.

Comment by Kevin C Dormant on March 30, 2011 at 7:08pm: Leaving in 10 minutes...

Comment by Carl on March 30, 2011 at 4:54pm: sorry. Gots class 6 - 10... =(

Comment by LarryN on March 29, 2011 at 7:11pm: Public domain books like Candide can also be found at project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Comment by globalguy on March 28, 2011 at 10:14am: Great humorous article on Book Clubs:
"Book clubs—the phrase alone conjures up the taste of white wine and melty cheese cubes and a vision of copies of The Deep End of the Ocean, only the first halves even slightly perused. We can thank Oprah for this template, despite her best intentions, but it’s also kind of a primal urge to get together and drink, and a slightly-less primal urge to conceal this liquoring-up behind the veneer of literature."

More here: http://tinyurl.com/48rz3ck

Comment by Shay on March 25, 2011 at 10:20am: I'm really looking forward to this! I read Candide in grad school. Wish I still had my notes. The course was entirely on literature of the Enlightenment.

I tried to reserve the book with the library, but it's taking forever. So I found that I could download a copy for free in iBooks on my iPad. It will be my first time reading a book on the iPad...not sure how I'll like it.

Comment by Aaron Bussey on March 25, 2011 at 10:11am: The Read Is On....

Comment by cutifly on March 21, 2011 at 2:07pm: Unless something comes up, it would be really cool to do something intelligent while drinking. Marty