Book Discussion

America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic...

Cafe Express · Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:00 PM

Kat is attending  

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July Topic: Soul-Loving Space
Come early to order food and drink, meeting starts at 6:00pm
The Art of Extreme Self-Care is a sane and sensible program that gives you the permission you need to dramatically upgrade your life!
This life-changing handbook by best-selling author Cheryl Richardson offers you 12 strategies to transform your life one...

Buster's Beach House · Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:45 PM

Cyndie Kalina is attending  

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For June, we choose JULIO'S DAY by Gilbert Hernandez.
It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Julio’s Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but...

Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:00 PM

Mission:Comics -Leef is attending  

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:00 PM

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Taking a small departure from our usual fiction fodder, the book chosen for discussion at this meeting is an expose of the Church of Scientology: Going Clear by Lawrence Wright.  Should make for a very interesting and lively evening!  Thanks to Lorraine for the suggestion.

Light Cafe · Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:30 PM

Callie Carling is attending  

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Plot introduction [edit]
It follows the often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.
This book may be considered part of the fictionalised roar of the end of the Second World War hiatus, also represented by the colossi of...

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant · Sunday, June 30, 2013 7:00 PM

Nathan Hamblen is attending  

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:00 PM

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In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife,...

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant · Sunday, July 28, 2013 7:00 PM

Nathan Hamblen is attending  

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, August 22, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, August 22, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:00 PM

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Mission: Comics & Art · Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:00 PM

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