Book Club! Book Club! Book Club!

Hey everyone! I want to apologize for dropping the ball on the meeting that was supposed to happen  yesterday. The month has flown by! As far as I am aware, no one has finished the book for this month yet. I have every intention of reading Flight by Sherman Alexie, and propose that we discuss the book in June.

We are really suffering when it comes to meeting attendees. Come on, guys! Bring your friends! We have lots of new employees here at eReplacementParts and I hope a few of them will join, so help us spread the word.

If anyone has any questions about the club, don't hesitate to ask!

Lets plan on having our meeting on Tuesday, June 19th in the break room. Does after work at 5:15 work for everyone? It is going to be a blast!!!

May Book Club Reading: Flight

For May's book club choice we are reading Flight by Sherman Alexie.

 

Sherman Alexie is an acclaimed Native American writer, and Flight is one of his best works. Flight is written in the first-person voice of its central character, Zits, a teenaged Native American boy who has spent most of his life being shuffled between foster homes.

Flight is one of the funniest novels that you'll ever read, and it manages to keep the humor going strong while addressing serious social both in history and in current times. Justin, who chose Flight as the selection this month, dares you to try to stop reading after two pages. :P

Meeting Place Change
Now that our offices are open later for our new customer service hours, we are going to hold our book club meetings in the office break room at 5:15.

We hope that this convenient and consistent location will make it easier for everyone to show up to our meetings.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 29th @ 5:15 in the office break room.

Come and talk about Flight and hang out with all the other readers in the company!

April Meeting

Hello everyone!

I hope you all got my text last week about our meeting date getting moved.  We will now be meeting tomorrow, May 3rd! The time and place are the same as they were listed in the previous post. I hope to see you all there!

Meeting review

Hello, my fellow book clubbers!

Sorry that this post got delayed a few days. Next month I will be on the ball! Last Thursday we met to discuss The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle.  We were short a few members; Justin, Emi and I were the only attendees.

Discussion Review

Emi and Justin enjoyed a heated discussion. Although Justin has yet to complete the novel (which he has vowed to do), he enjoys the magic system--or lack thereof--that Beagle writes into his book's world. Many fantasy novelists go out of their way to explain the details of how magical power works, but Beagle seems to infuse his spin on magic with additional mystery by simply allowing magic to be . . . mysterious.

Emi pointed out that time is an important theme in the story, with immortality (the absence of time) represented through the immortal unicorn, and, at least in the beginning of the novel, time being represented by the old carnival woman who poses as "old age" herself. Using illusionary magic, the old woman becomes her own carnival's most fearsome attraction, weaving a spell of cold death around her, even fooling the wise unicorn for a moment.

Emi promises that the thematic goods of the novel only escalate from there, and Justin, a diehard sucker for vintage fantasy, is excited to sink his teeth into the rest of the book's meaty subject matter.

Thanks Emi for the book choice. So far we've read two books that are very different from one another. I'm glad we are getting some good diversity in the club.

Book Choice

The book we voted on is Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonegut.

 "It is an apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny."

Next Month

Our next meeting is on April 26th, 2012 at Blue Lemon, a restaurant and bistro, at 7:00pm. Juliana is bringing our book choices this month, can't wait to see her picks! (We chose Juliana's book at our first meeting, however that does not count as her month to present three choices to the club.)

I hope you all can make it, it's more fun with more of us there! Just a reminder, you are welcome to bring outside guests. Anyone can join! 

Blue Lemon 

6919 S. Highland Dr. 

Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121

Meeting Time Changed!

Hey Guys,
I am changing the previously stated meeting date and time from Wednesday, March 21st at 12pm to Thursday, March 22nd at 6:30pm. The location will be the same, we will meet at Paradise Bakery.  I hope you all can make it, I apologize for any inconvenience.  Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions!

Rachel

2/21 Club Meeting Overview

We had our second official meeting last night, February 21st.  It went very well, it's exciting to see our club developing. Thanks to everyone who made it out. And to those who didn't, it's never too late to join!
The book we read in the last month was The Bonesetter's Daughter, and we discussed it last night. The general consensus was that the book was a great read. Some of the main topics discussed were:

• Asian culture- books like this are always interesting to read because it's an opportunity to learn about people who live and think much differently than we do in America. It was said that it was cool to read about a Chinese woman who is living in two worlds- living and practicing Chinese culture at home with her mother, but living in America and having to fit in with a different society away from home.
• Family relationships- this book focuses a lot of the strength of family bonds. This plays in to the first point mentioned, because family is everything in Asian cultures. The relationship between Ruth and her mother changes a lot throughout the book and is something we all were able to relate to.
• The development of Ruth in her relationships- Ruth changed a lot as she gained more perspective on her mother's life, and it gave her strength in her own life. Her relationship with her boyfriend became less manipulative and hurtful, as well as her relationship with his two daughters. She became more of her own person, and was proud of her family.

All at the meeting agreed the book was well worth reading. Thanks Juliana for the great pick!

February-March Book Choice
At the meeting we also voted on the three book choices presented by Emi. The book that we chose is The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle.

Next Meeting
Next month Rachel is selecting the book and meeting place, and she has decided to do a lunch meeting. To encourage more club members, we will be going to lunch on Wednesday, March 21st at 12pm at Paradise Bakery. We hope that people here at work will find this time a little more convenient than evening meetings. Our  meetings are normally on Tuesdays, but one of our members does not work on Tuesdays, so for this lunch meeting we will be making an exception.


So go get your hands on The Last Unicorn and get reading! And keep checking the blog, we are hoping to get it a little more functional for members to post on...we will keep you updated!

February Club Meeting Tomorrow

Remember our February book club meeting tomorrow night! We'll be talking about our January read, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and voting on our reading for the next month.

Didn't finish the book? No problem! Come anyway just to socialize and hang out.

February meeting information:

      When:  Tuesday, February 21st @ 6:00 PM
    
         Where:  Paradise Bakery in Sandy
                       10431 South State Street
                       Sandy, UT, 84070
 
   








Emi from Data Ops will be providing our reading choices for the coming month, so come ready with your vote.

See you there!