Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
New and Starting Anew
I have more or less moved over to magicinkanddreams.weebly.com. Please go there for the latest. Thanks :)
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
FIRST BOOK CLUB MEETING
I have chosen The Moviegoer by Walter Percy, but the other option is The Memories of Old Jack by Wendell Berry. Please read part one of The Moviegoer, and approximately 44 pages of The Memories of Old Jack (I say 60 pages in the video, but ignore that). This round of the book club will go from the 11th of July to the 8th of August. Good luck!
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
2 AM Disturbances
The book club was supposed to start July the Fourth, but seeing as that is a significant holiday, I'm not surprised that no one posted anything. I myself, in fact, let the day slip away from me. I intended to take care of it first thing in the morning, but I didn't give myself a reminder (as I warned myself I should). And so, my friends, it did not get done.
Good news is that I am now prepared for this Saturday. The book club will begin this Saturday the 11th and this round will continue for four weeks. I explain what to do at the first meeting, which is this Saturday, but for now, get your book and get excited!!!
Also, my new blog is close to being "launchable." I'm not totally happy with it, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to move over there before it's totally done and allow it to be a work in progress. Reluctantly, I asked my boyfriend for a photo shoot – because I don't like being photographed and he loves photography – and so we spent part of Sunday shooting a camera at me, and it was actually kind of fun. He's being looking through the photos and found some good ones, so those will be going up on the website soon. I am breaking the barrier between me and you! You shall truly get to know what I look like. (Even sound like…??????)
In other news? Um…. If you're into knitting, check out this page and knit with me! "Knitting Thursday" every, well, Thursday.
Story time:
So last night, I woke up to loud music and talking just before 1:30 AM. It was clearly coming from the vicinity of my black neighbors – I say black neighbors because, well, they're black. Which distinguishes them from my other neighbors. They don't live in my apartment complex, but in the apartments on the next property over. They tend to talk very loudly and shout often. I've been afraid to approach them because they seem so unfriendly…. But last night, they were making a ton of noise. Or visitors of theirs were. I didn't want to get up to check. I rolled over and hoped to get back to sleep. But finally, car doors slammed and the noise quieted. But then my neighbors – husband and wife I assume – continued to talk and yell at each other the only way they know how. And it was 1:30 in the morning. She seemed to deliberately provoke him – she must be a very unhappy person or just really grumpy at 1:30 in the morning – and I sympathize.
Finally – I didn't hear the car pull up but I heard the voices over the radio. Almost 2 AM and, I checked, the police had pulled up. It almost instantly got quieter, although you could hear them still yelling at each other from inside their apartment.
Whew! What a night. Took me forever to get back to sleep. The police stuck around outside for awhile, and some other people seemed to be hanging out, but it was hard to see because it was 2 in the morning. I'm not sure what was going on. But eventually I realized that I hadn't heard a sound for a little while and I assumed everyone had gone or went into their respective doors. And after a bit longer, I fell asleep.
Tonight, it's pouring rain and I love it. I like falling asleep to the sound of rain on the roof.
That's all I have for now. Thanks for sticking around!
~Meggy
Good news is that I am now prepared for this Saturday. The book club will begin this Saturday the 11th and this round will continue for four weeks. I explain what to do at the first meeting, which is this Saturday, but for now, get your book and get excited!!!
Also, my new blog is close to being "launchable." I'm not totally happy with it, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to move over there before it's totally done and allow it to be a work in progress. Reluctantly, I asked my boyfriend for a photo shoot – because I don't like being photographed and he loves photography – and so we spent part of Sunday shooting a camera at me, and it was actually kind of fun. He's being looking through the photos and found some good ones, so those will be going up on the website soon. I am breaking the barrier between me and you! You shall truly get to know what I look like. (Even sound like…??????)
In other news? Um…. If you're into knitting, check out this page and knit with me! "Knitting Thursday" every, well, Thursday.
Story time:
So last night, I woke up to loud music and talking just before 1:30 AM. It was clearly coming from the vicinity of my black neighbors – I say black neighbors because, well, they're black. Which distinguishes them from my other neighbors. They don't live in my apartment complex, but in the apartments on the next property over. They tend to talk very loudly and shout often. I've been afraid to approach them because they seem so unfriendly…. But last night, they were making a ton of noise. Or visitors of theirs were. I didn't want to get up to check. I rolled over and hoped to get back to sleep. But finally, car doors slammed and the noise quieted. But then my neighbors – husband and wife I assume – continued to talk and yell at each other the only way they know how. And it was 1:30 in the morning. She seemed to deliberately provoke him – she must be a very unhappy person or just really grumpy at 1:30 in the morning – and I sympathize.
Finally – I didn't hear the car pull up but I heard the voices over the radio. Almost 2 AM and, I checked, the police had pulled up. It almost instantly got quieter, although you could hear them still yelling at each other from inside their apartment.
Whew! What a night. Took me forever to get back to sleep. The police stuck around outside for awhile, and some other people seemed to be hanging out, but it was hard to see because it was 2 in the morning. I'm not sure what was going on. But eventually I realized that I hadn't heard a sound for a little while and I assumed everyone had gone or went into their respective doors. And after a bit longer, I fell asleep.
Tonight, it's pouring rain and I love it. I like falling asleep to the sound of rain on the roof.
That's all I have for now. Thanks for sticking around!
~Meggy
Saturday, June 27, 2015
I would like to start a book club
I would like to start a book club.
My plan was to offer two book suggestions and tag other bloggers I know and love. Then, every other Saturday (maybe every Saturday), I would do a post answering key questions about the book and synopsizing, reading my favorite bits, etc. – hopefully no more than 10 minutes long. Ideally, only five minutes. Although we'd be doing this as a group, each person could choose whichever of the two to three books. And those who read the same book could discuss it. The length of the book would determine how much we have to read each week, but I'm thinking a book a month, more or less? Because I'm going back to school in the fall for my senior year, I may have to pick books that I'm assigned for my various English classes. But I got the reading list for my American Novel class from my professor so I'm going to start on that early. If you would like to participate and you have a similar concern, I'll take book suggestions and try to fit them into the list. But as long as the group is small, I don't think I should offer more than two books. If everyone is reading a different book, we can't discuss them.
So, the books for the first book club, starting next Saturday, are:
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic. –Amazon.com
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century. –Amazon.com
If you're not interested, no hard feelings. But this is going to go very well if I don't get anybody. So if you're interested, please ask other bloggers as well! Or non-bloggers that read blogs.
~Meggy
My plan was to offer two book suggestions and tag other bloggers I know and love. Then, every other Saturday (maybe every Saturday), I would do a post answering key questions about the book and synopsizing, reading my favorite bits, etc. – hopefully no more than 10 minutes long. Ideally, only five minutes. Although we'd be doing this as a group, each person could choose whichever of the two to three books. And those who read the same book could discuss it. The length of the book would determine how much we have to read each week, but I'm thinking a book a month, more or less? Because I'm going back to school in the fall for my senior year, I may have to pick books that I'm assigned for my various English classes. But I got the reading list for my American Novel class from my professor so I'm going to start on that early. If you would like to participate and you have a similar concern, I'll take book suggestions and try to fit them into the list. But as long as the group is small, I don't think I should offer more than two books. If everyone is reading a different book, we can't discuss them.
So, the books for the first book club, starting next Saturday, are:
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic. –Amazon.com
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century. –Amazon.com
If you're not interested, no hard feelings. But this is going to go very well if I don't get anybody. So if you're interested, please ask other bloggers as well! Or non-bloggers that read blogs.
~Meggy
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