Hi Novel Spirits, here is the summary of the business portion of the August 9th meeting at JB and Cat's house. It was a beautiful, sunny day out on the back deck discussing THE BOOK THIEF.
Cat had planned on making split pea soup to pay homage to that soup's role in the book, however, the Novel Spirits revolted and the only way I could prevent them from tar and feathering poor Cat, she had to agree to not make split pea soup. Instead she made a very delicious potato soup, which consequently made no appearances in the book.
We took a brief, whistful trip down memory lane since the club turns one year old soon!! It's almost our anniversary Novel Spirits! 8/30/2014, a day which will live in infamy... oh wait wrong speech. The club has read nine books in the past year, really good I'd say. And we're still going strong.
Good news, hopefully we'll have our club t-shirts at the next meeting. Therefore, I will bring the super-secret-squirrel book safe with our stash in order to pay Deuce.
We all agreed to stop chastising Waldo, but I do want to repeat something funny that Indy said. "He's got more on his plate than he can say grace over." I was LOLing. Never heard that one before.
Diesel had a notion to make a motion (sorry I know that is a cheesy rhyme but I like it and I'm standing by it) to nominate her friend into the book club. He loves to read, majored in microbiology, but was unable to attend this meeting because he was lost in the woods. Well I guess since we are not a orienteering and land navigation club, being lost shouldn't take any value from his stock. His tentative code name is Gilligan.
Indy was chastised for never reading the Harry Potter books. And rightfully so!!!! I mean DANG! I'm really teetering on having a notion to make a motion to send her to Novel Spirit detention until she completes HP1. She's just not American!!! wait.... She's just not British!!!! Whatever, just read them Indy!!!
Diesel informed us that there is a fan-fiction book out now called HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY which provides an alternate version of the Harry Potter stories. Something about science?
Archimedes is currently reading JK Rowling's book THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, although she writes this one under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Archy is really enjoying the book and is anxious to start the sequel THE SILKWORM.
For fans of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and its two sequels, we found out that a fourth book in that series is being released, quite contraversially however. The author died after writing three books; he intended it to be a ten book series. After his death, his family had a feud with his long-time girlfriend over his unfinished fourth book. So I think in the end, his girlfriend ended up finishing the story and now we'll get to see how it is.
And to bring this too long post to a funny end, we discussed a new Broadway musical out right now called HAMILTON, based on Alexander Hamilton. Now I really admire Alexander Hamilton and I've read a few books about him. Extremely important one of our fore fathers, particularly in the area of banking and finance. But this Broadway musical is a comedy and the music is rap music. And hilarity ensues. I'd definitely go see it, but only if it comes closer to home.
Archimedes will come along shortly to post THE BOOK THIEF book discussion. And our next book is MORIARTY by Anthony Horowitz and our next meeting is September 27th 2015 at Baron and Archy's house. We can make it a mystery dinner theater!!!
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