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| Summer reading: fun & madness - Hello all, I have scheduled the next few meetings after Narcissus and Goldmund on June 22. In my opinion, summer reading should not use any less of the brain than the rea | sivert | Jun 11, 2008 |
New Meeting: Narcissus and Goldmund - Dear all, I've scheduled our meeting for "Narcissus and Goldmund". For more details, see the full listing: http://bookclub.meetup.com/812 /calendar/8070265/ When
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sivert | Jun 3, 2008 |
| Please Confirm Heart is a Lonely Hunter RSVP - Hi all, All of our slots for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter have been filled, and based on our experience many people's plans change after RSVPing, and I just want to ask people to update their attendance if things have changed. If you have said Yes | John | May 26, 2008 |
| Paperbackswap.com? Anyone using it? - Preview not available | Kara | May 23, 2008 |
| New Meeting: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - Announcing a new meeting for Classic Books! What: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers When: Sunday, June 1, 6:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Meeting Description: Combining the theme' | John | May 13, 2008 |
| Next Read: Narcissus & Goldmund by Hesse - Hey all, So, the people have spoken and Narcissus & Goldmund eked out a win to become our next read. See you next Sunday for Winter's Tales! -John | John | May 4, 2008 |
| Falkner adapted for theater - Hi all, I came across this mention of a theatrical adaptation of Falkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and thought that some of you might be interested to know about it. Here is the link to the New Yorker piece: | Arlinda S. | May 1, 2008 |
| New Poll for Next Read - Hi All, I just posted a new poll for what to read after Winter's Tales. -John | John | Apr 30, 2008 |
| New Meeting: Winter's Tale by Isak Dinesen - Announcing a new meeting for Classic Books! What: Winter's Tale by Isak Dinesen When: Sunday, May 11, 6:00 PM Meeting fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Meeting Descripti | Arlinda S. | Apr 21, 2008 |
| Latest read: Isak Dinesen's Winter Tale - Hi all, Our latest poll has now closed -- thanks to all who voted-- and we have a tie between Isak Dinesen and Carson McCullers. Since there is equal interest in reading them both, I'd suggest that we turn to Dinesen first and get to McCullers | Arlinda S. | Apr 13, 2008 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] Vote for our next read - Hi Toye and everyone else, Please be aware that when you reply to messages that were sent to the entire group, everyone gets your mail! We don't want classic books to be a spammer. It is OK to send a mass mail if you have something to communicate t | sivert | Apr 10, 2008 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] Vote for our next read - The Great Gatsby "Arlinda S." <[address removed]> wrote: Hi all, I hope this message finds you in the midst of reading " | Toye | Apr 8, 2008 |
| Vote for our next read - Hi all, I hope this message finds you in the midst of reading "The Sound and the Fury". And if not, you may be wondering what to read next. I have created a new poll with suggestions. Please cast your vote by Friday, April 11t | Arlinda S. | Apr 6, 2008 |
| The Sound and the Fury - Hello all, This is just a reminder that the Sound and the Fury is on April 20. So those of us who haven't read it yet should start thinking about brushing the dust of this book! A lot of members replyed Yes to this meeting early on. If you | sivert | Apr 4, 2008 |
| New Meeting: The Sound and the Fury - Announcing a new meeting for Classic Books! What: The Sound and the Fury When: Sunday, April 20, 6:00 PM Meeting fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Meeting Description: T | sivert | Mar 6, 2008 |
| New poll - Hello all, I have added a poll for our next read after hunger. Please go to Polls . To read some more about the choices, you can go to these pages: | sivert | Mar 2, 2008 |
| New Meeting: Hunger - Announcing a new meeting for Classic Books! What: Hunger When: Sunday, March 23, 6:00 PM Meeting fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Meeting Description: It was decided at | sivert | Feb 12, 2008 |
| New Meeting: Brothers Karamazov II - Announcing a new meeting for Classic Books! What: Brothers Karamazov II When: Sunday, March 2, 6:00 PM Meeting fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Meeting Description: In | sivert | Feb 12, 2008 |
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Event details changed: Brothers Karamazov I - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://bookclub.meetup.com/812/calendar/7164270/ When: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM Where: Algier
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sivert | Jan 24, 2008 |
| New Event: Brothers Karamazov I - Hello all, The poll is now closed and The Brothers Karamazov won by the most convincing margin in the history of our little democracy! Here are the details for the first Karamazov meetup: What: Brothers Karamazov I Wh | sivert | Jan 21, 2008 |
| Poll for our next read - Hello All, First of all, happy new year to all of you. I hope you had a good discussion at the Hamlet I meeting. I have added a poll for our next read after we finish Hamlet. It will close Sunday evening. To vote, go to the classic books w | sivert | Jan 18, 2008 |
| Don Quixote III - Hello again, As you may know, we never finished reading Don Quixote, the last third is still waiting for us! Please reply to this e-mail if you want to join the third meeting - since we are only a small group for this, we will plan | sivert | Nov 21, 2007 |
| New Event: A Christmas Carol - Announcing a new event for Classic Books: A Christmas Carol, Sunday, December 9, 6:00 PM What can be better than Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to wrap up the book club meetings for this year?! It is not very long, so we will di | sivert | Nov 21, 2007 |
| New Event: Dead Souls II - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: Dead Souls II When: Sunday, November 18, 6:00 PM Event fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: In this meetu | sivert | Nov 5, 2007 |
| New Event: Dead Souls - Hello all, The poll is now closed, and the winner is Dead Souls by Gogol. We will meet in about 10 days: When: Sunday, November 4, 6:00 PM Event fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find | sivert | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Poll for our next read - Hello all, We met yesterday for Don Quixote II, all three of us (!) and had a good discussion. But now it is time to shift literary gears a bit, so I have put up a poll for our next book, for the meeting two weeks from now. Please vote bef | sivert | Oct 22, 2007 |
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Event details changed: Don Quixote II - Since there were no protests, I've changed the date for DQ II to Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 6:00 PM For more details, see the full listing: http://bookclub.meetup.com/812/calendar/646
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sivert | Oct 3, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote II - Hi Peter, I don't have a problem shifting it another week to get back to the original schedule. If I don't hear strong protests by tonight, I am going to move DQ II to one week later (people who want to strongly protest should e-mail me, not the ent | sivert | Oct 1, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote II - If we're going to delay for the Columbus Day weekend, can we consider whether it might be better to wait until the 21st? I've got another recurring obligation on the 14th and every two weeks afterwards, so shifting the schedule will prevent me from | Peter | Oct 1, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote II - Preview not available | Sally | Oct 1, 2007 |
| New Event: Don Quixote II - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: Don Quixote II When: Sunday, October 14, 6:00 PM Event fee: USD1.00 per person Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: In this meetu | sivert | Oct 1, 2007 |
| New Event: Pale Fire - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: Pale Fire When: Sunday, September 23, 6:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: Our most recent poll is now closed, and Nabokov's Pale Fi | sivert | Sep 3, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote I - ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote I Date: Mon, August 27, 2007 14:21 From: "sivert" > > But Peter will post a note on checking if you have a proper translation in your hand or not. | Peter | Aug 28, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New Event: Don Quixote I - Hi Astrid, I really enjoyed our marathon chat last night! I didn't have a chance to send you any additional suggestions for the poll in time, but I'm perfectly content with your choices. Fingers cross | Arlinda S. | Aug 27, 2007 |
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New Event: Don Quixote I - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! Don Quixote I Sunday, September 9, 6:00 PM http://bookclub.meetup.com/812/calendar/6251604/ Event Description: At this
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sivert | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] Book list - Hi Trisha (and other people who may have the same question), In our meetings, we decided to alternate between light and heavy classics. The plan is to have two light, then one heavy meeting. In heavy meetings, we will read classics that are both mo | sivert | Aug 20, 2007 |
| Book list - Hello! I just joined your book group and I gave an RSVP for your next meetup, but I was a little unsure of the book list. "Slaughter House Five" is the book for the next Meet Up, but you are reading "Don Quixote" | Trisha | Aug 20, 2007 |
| New Event: First "Slaughterhouse Five" Meetup - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: First "Slaughterhouse Five" Meetup When: Sunday, August 26, 6:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: Dear Classic Book Readers | Arlinda S. | Aug 13, 2007 |
| The next books - Hello all, The polls are now closed, and the results are: Don Quixote for our next demanding classic and Slaughterhouse Five as an in-between light snack! As Don Quixote and The Iliad had almost the same number of votes, I woul | sivert | Aug 3, 2007 |
| New Event: Second - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: Second "A Tale of Two Cities" Meetup When: Sunday, August 12, 6:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: A this meeting, we will | sivert | Aug 2, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] Latest meeting and the next books - Hello, Sorry i missed the last meeting...I got busy, but I also waned in interest because the book was such a difficult read. When you have an english speaking author (like Dickens) who wr | Tom | Jul 31, 2007 |
| Latest meeting and the next books - Hello all, Five of us met yesterday and discussed the first half of "A Tale of Two Cities". We had a good discussion of many elements, but did not get to the bottom of anything, as so many things are still completely open. I think we | sivert | Jul 30, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New organizer - Hi Astrid et al, I am sorry to hear about Jola's departure. Thanks for stepping in so swiftly to become our new group organizer. If you need a spare assistant organizer, please count me in as well. | Arlinda S. | Jul 28, 2007 |
| Re: [bookclub-812] New organizer - If no one | Gabi Logan | Jul 27, 2007 |
| Suggest books to read in the future - Hello all, As Jola did not not leave a list behind of books that have been suggested, I would like all of you to suggest titles of interest (e-mail them to me). They will all go on the "master list", and titles from there will come up | sivert | Jul 27, 2007 |
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First - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://bookclub.meetup.com/812/calendar/6013239/ When: Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 6:00 PM Where: Algiers Co
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sivert | Jul 27, 2007 |
| New organizer - Hello all, I was sorry to hear that Jola had to step down. All the best wishes to her! This has been a really nice meetup group so far, so I really think it would be a shame to let it stop. Therefore I decided to take over, although I am s | sivert | Jul 27, 2007 |
| bad news - I just received some terrible news and will be leaving the area for a while. I'm afraid I won't be able to run the book club any longer. Please, everyone, keep meeting and enjoying the wonderful works of fiction. I'm sorry to have to leave you like this, | user 3950335 | Jul 27, 2007 |
| New Event: First "A Tale of Two Cities" Meetup - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: First "A Tale of Two Cities" Meetup When: Sunday, July 29, 6:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: This will be our first mee | user 3950335 | Jul 12, 2007 |
| New Book: A Tale of Two Cities - The votes are in from our tie-breaker. The next book we tackle will be Charles Dickens' famed "A Tale of Two Cities." The first meeting for this book will be on Sunday, July 29th at 6pm at Cafe Algiers in Harvard Square. Jola. | user 3950335 | Jul 12, 2007 |
| Tie Vote - Hello everyone. We had a tie between Homer's "Iliad" and Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." Please take a moment to vote in our new poll in order to decide between the two. The poll will be up until Wednesday. Jola. Your Or | user 3950335 | Jul 9, 2007 |
| New Poll - Summary of Books - Hello everyone. The newest poll is up with choices for our next book. Below are the options, along with a brief blurb about the book. Remember to email me if there are any in particular you want to see. Jola. Homer, &quo | user 3950335 | Jul 5, 2007 |
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Event details changed: Second Lady Chatterley Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://bookclub.meetup.com/812/calendar/5960091/ When: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 8:00 PM Where: Algiers
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user 3950335 | Jul 3, 2007 |
| Report from Second Meeting - Just wanted to update everyone on our second meeting. We met at Cafe Algiers in Harvard Square and everyone seemed to agree that it worked well as a location. Therefore, all future meetups will take place there unless I hear any strenuous objections. | user 3950335 | Jul 3, 2007 |
| Our First Book - The results are in and D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" narrowly beat out the competition (and I do mean narrowly!). I'll keep Cervantes and O'Connor on the list for future selections. For our next meetup on Sunday the 1st, l | user 3950335 | Jun 21, 2007 |
| New Event: Second Meeting - Announcing a new event for Classic Books! What: Second Meeting When: Sunday, July 1, 6:00 PM Where: Algiers Coffeehouse, Harvard Square Event Description: This is the second meeting of our group. I'll have the n | user 3950335 | Jun 18, 2007 |
| Meeting Summary and Books - The first meeting was a great success. Thank you to everyone who could make it. It was a pleasure to meet you all and I'm looking forward to the discussions we'll be having as this meetup progresses. For those of you who could not make it, I should first | user 3950335 | Jun 18, 2007 |
| Reminder: Our First Meeting - Hello once more to everybody. Just wanted to remind you all that we have our first meetup on Sunday, June 17th at 7pm. It's going to be at the Uno's Chicago Grill in Cambridge, right in Porter Square. This Uno's location has two floors. We'll be meeting o | user 3950335 | Jun 15, 2007 |
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