Wow! That Book Discussion post by Baron is a hard act to follow. Luckily, the business portion of the meeting was pretty short. Everyone paid their book club dues. We are accumulating quite the fund! At the next meeting perhaps we should discuss some potential uses for our fund. Maybe a field trip to a winery? Or a masseuse at one of our meetings? Just throwing out ideas...
Baron presented the group with his new and improved book club drawing, which will, after much waiting and anticipation, hopefully soon adorn our book club T-shirts. Deuce represented that she will color the drawing and the T-shirts will be made! Yay!
I shared with the group an app I had heard about on the radio, called the NPR Book Concierge. It has reviews of the best books of 2015. Since all of us have been thinking about our selection for the next round of books, I thought this might help us identify some winners. Although, as we all know too well, sometimes the reviews of books can be deceiving!
Mentioning NPR reminded Gilligan of an NPR podcast called Serial. Gilligan told the group that Season 2 of this podcast is dynamite, and he highly recommended it to the Novel Spirits. Gilligan also mentioned that he needs blog access, which Baron has since squared away. Thanks Baron!
Drawing inspiration from Indy's Off the Grid segment from this meeting, Deuce had an idea for our next meeting - a game called "Whose Line...", in which we all bring a quote by an author of one of the books that we have read. It doesn't necessarily have to be from the book that we have read, but it can be. Sounds interesting!
We also had a brief discussion of some recent news items that were related to this month's selection, GRAY MOUNTAIN. There has recently been legislation proposed to ban mountaintop removal mining in Cumberland, Tennessee. Also, a mining executive was recently convicted of a misdemeanor related to the Upper Big Branch mine explosion, in which 29 miners were killed.
At the end of our meeting, we did our first Novel Spirits gift swap, which was a smashing success (I hope). I have certainly been using my wine aerator! Boss and Chief have been chomping at the bit to make a trip to Barnes and Noble to spend their gift cards from the Novel Spirits.
Our next book is BOSSYPANTS by Tina Fey. We only have three books after this one!! Chief selected Guardians of Ga'hoole - The Capture by Kathryn Lasky as his next bonus book. Our next meeting will be on January 24, 2016 at Baron's castle, where we can all break our New Years' resolutions to drink less and eat healthier. Until then, Novel Spirits, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
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