Have my rights been revoked? I keep getting caught in a cycle of signing in, posting, signing in, posting, and it NEVER works! What has happened? Here is what I wanted to comment on the previous post:
I think lobotomies are cool and I want one. Ok, really, I do think last meeting was great--both due to the company and the subject matter. I learned a little about "the other book" [Brave New World] from Rob and Eliza and think maybe, just maybe, I will give it another shot. Thanks guys!
Also, I would like to respectfully ask you keep my no-longer-secret obsession with MAGNUM ice cream bars between us. Really, keep it classy, huh?
I'm 1/3 into 'ol Jane and I'm loving it! Hmmmm.....that is an interesting way to say it. Double entendre anyone?!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
June Book Club Recap!
Hey Bookclubbers!
Let's all pat ourselves on the back for another successful and thoroughly enjoyable meeting!
Agora, despite it's unfortunate but all too common in D.C. "no happy hour at the 'dinner tables'" rule, was a delight. Honestly, I know it was just Mythos and Peroni, but it's nice to find a bar anywhere that has $3 happy hour beers that aren't Bud or Miller Lite, so, kudos, Agora. Plus, I really quite like Mythos in the oppressive heat of summer.
The dueling discussions carried on with the kind of light-hearted chicanery that I expect took place in Bride Wars (but I haven't seen that movie, so I leave it up for debate which novel was Kate Hudson and which was Anne Hathaway). I have to say that I think the option to read one of two books this month worked out fairly well. Go ahead and give yourselves another back-pat.
In the end it was decided that, after five months of decreasingly subtle suggestions from Wendy, our next book will be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (here's the Gutenberg link for all-a-y'all's eReadin' needs). I for one feel very cultured to finally be reading something by an author that has a special punctuation mark in their name (and it's an umlaut at that! That's like the Daily Double of special punctuation!). I picked my decrepit used copy up today, and it is just a skosh longer than I thought, but I think we can handle it. Hell, it's still shorter than the abridged Count of Monte Cristo, right? I just hope it's as full of swashbuckling!
Happy reading!
Daniel
Let's all pat ourselves on the back for another successful and thoroughly enjoyable meeting!
Agora, despite it's unfortunate but all too common in D.C. "no happy hour at the 'dinner tables'" rule, was a delight. Honestly, I know it was just Mythos and Peroni, but it's nice to find a bar anywhere that has $3 happy hour beers that aren't Bud or Miller Lite, so, kudos, Agora. Plus, I really quite like Mythos in the oppressive heat of summer.
The dueling discussions carried on with the kind of light-hearted chicanery that I expect took place in Bride Wars (but I haven't seen that movie, so I leave it up for debate which novel was Kate Hudson and which was Anne Hathaway). I have to say that I think the option to read one of two books this month worked out fairly well. Go ahead and give yourselves another back-pat.
In the end it was decided that, after five months of decreasingly subtle suggestions from Wendy, our next book will be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (here's the Gutenberg link for all-a-y'all's eReadin' needs). I for one feel very cultured to finally be reading something by an author that has a special punctuation mark in their name (and it's an umlaut at that! That's like the Daily Double of special punctuation!). I picked my decrepit used copy up today, and it is just a skosh longer than I thought, but I think we can handle it. Hell, it's still shorter than the abridged Count of Monte Cristo, right? I just hope it's as full of swashbuckling!
Happy reading!Daniel
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