FEBRUARY MEETING NOTES

I think the best way to begin this post is a quote made directly by Diesel: "Baron's pie was discovered in the freezer, and it was enjoyed by all." That should about wrap things up nicely folks. Good talk!

Okay, down to business: meeting notes for our February meeting. Archimedes will be posting the UNBROKEN book discussion shortly. 

Old Business: 

To start us off, Boss read GREEN EGGS & HAM by Dr. Seuss and I think we all enjoyed that. He keeps getting better and better at reading. I'm impressed with Chief's and Boss's bravery in participating in adult book discussions. I would have ran and hid under my bed if ever asked to do something similar when I was younger. Most of the time I want to do that now and I'm a full (physically) grown adult. Well done Chief and Boss.

Shirts: I think Diesel summarized it quite succinctly so I won't try to improve it: "No shirts, waiting to color, (Deuce is slacking), Deuce was chastised." Enough said.

Running events: Diesel continues to conduct research on two things: 1. any local running events that any of us may want to participate in. Specifically any events that support literacy or similar type causes, and 2. To see if it may be feasible for we, the mighty Novel Spirits to organize and execute our own running event to benefit literacy in some shape or form. May the Force be with You Diesel!

Dues: According to the notes, we have two deliquencies in the February dues payments: just remember everyone, Big Brother is always watching! ◉_◉ So I'll give the guilty parties a chance to come clean now and save yourselves being arrested and reconditioned by the Thought Police (ง'̀-'́)ง

You're out of time Cat and JB! How do you answer to your crimes!?!?!?!? So did yall pay dues or what?

New Business:

We discussed going on a club field trip to some sort of literary themed location at some point in time. However, as the clubs's unofficial, amateur, up-and-coming financial advisor, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that we just invested $251 of our (less than) very deep bank account to go see 1984 at the Barter Theater. More on that in a bit. A few suggestions thrown out were: the Thomas Wolffe house (assuming we are all properly recovered from our miserably failed attempts at reading his accounts of the history of life, the world and everything). Which Douglas Adams quite succinctly explained to us was 42. Anyway, Biltmore, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe were suggestions, as well as Cormac McCarthy. Not sure if that is a place or an Irish potato farmer but I'm sure yall will set me straight. 

Also, and this is exciting IMO, we all submitted our "soft" book submissions for our next round of readings. Here is a quick list, without the actual pictures of the books because as always, I am already putting way too many words down here and that would take up far too much space. Hamilton quote: "Why do you write like you're running out of time??" Sorry about that, and no I definitely don't put myself in Hamilton's category. He was about 27 times more intelligent than me, or I. See I rest my case. In Summary, Hamilton is awesome.

Baron: 1984 by George Orwell

Cat: SON OF THE WILDERNESS by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

JB: KINGS MOUNTAIN by Sharon McCrumb

Diesel: THE DUELING NEUROSURGEONS by Sam Kean

Indy: GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee

Archimedes: CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller

Gilligan: PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

Deuce: FINDING JAKE by Bryan Reardon

 

JB shared some quotes from Mark Twain and Indy shared some quotes from Twain and Thomas Wolfe. I am ashamed to say that I have fallen away from the habit of collecting quotes from the books we read (or any other source related). I had an easier time back when I was using the Kindle app on my iPhone but Amazon no longer allows me to use my password on its apps. It works fine on my computer but apparently the hoity toity Mr. Godlike smarypants Amazon thinks I am not worthy of using it on my mobile devices. So that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Now look about 1984: sorry that I just jumped line and injected my next round submission (1984) ahead of our two remaining from this round, but there was a mediocre reason. I was strongly considering this book, then I happened to see that the play 1984 was playing at Barter and thought that would be cool for us all to read it then go see it. Our very first club field trip (awwww tear). I wish tear was spelled differently than tear but sadly its not. I know how ridiculous this will read. ANYWAY, But it only plays during the month of April so it was a rather time sensitive issue. So everyone was nice enough to let me jump in line with my next book submission and we'll go see the play after.

So next meeting is at the Barter Theater Stage II Cafe (across the street from the main stage) around maybe 5:00? We can eat there, have our meeting, then watch the show at 8:00. The date is Saturday April 9th. 

I'll end with a completely unrelated quote, just because I think it is awesome: (from Hamilton again) "I'm past patiently waiting, I'm passionately smashing every expectation, every action's an act of creation!"

See yall in a bit, don't forget the Two minutes hate tonight everyone!