Ok, Spirits, almost there. Let's do this thing! (Ratatouille quote, I'll just get it out of the way right out of the gate). More notes from the plethora of meetings we've had since my last posts, oooops:
Okay folks, here it is; my piece di resistance (said in a heavy french accent btw), my Eiffel Tower, my Rachainoff's Third, my Pieta. This is the Cohibas baby, the Cubans, the Montecristos. (Ironman 2 quote, sorry I can't stop sometimes). I, Baron von Blogger, son of JB, late of Bristol, Commander of Legions... yeah right whatever. So I had a good idea. Perhaps I just over-sold it a bit but here it is. We usually start the meetings around 2pm. But sometimes we can't always make it right on time, which is no big deal but maybe some people feel a little pressure about deadlines. So to alleviate that problem, I figured we'd just say from 2-3pm is the cocktail hour. So you can show up whenever, fashionably late if you wish, so to speak. And the host can just sip wine until we all show up. So in a nut shell: drink wine, no pressure. I call that a Win-Win.
We decided to record everyone's book ratings from now on, in order to have data on everyone's ratings. This way we can possibly see what type of books we prefer over others. And we can try to improve our own individual rating abilities. But I think we also made sure to protect everyone's right to select whatever book they want whatever the consequences. It's each of us's month to be the King/Queen of the book club. I've punished all of you with the likes of 1984 and THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY after all. I loved both but get a slight feeling maybe you all didn't. Call it a sixth sense, this talent I have. Anyway, moving on...
More chastising of Baron and Arhimedes... nothing to see here.
Literary festival on February 25th, its possible we didn't attend that.....
But hey!!! Here's one we haven't missed yet: Literary Festival in Burnsville, NC on September 8,9,10. I didn't miss that deadline!! #winning
Boss has been continuing his "Either extremely loveable or extremely deadly animals" book reading series for us all and he is doing very well. In this month's installment he read about snakes. He has read several books about snakes and he taught Archimedes and I that some Anacondas can eat Jaguars, can you believe that!?!?! Just a little tid-bit for you at your next cocktail party at the country club. You're welcome.
We're still throwing around the idea of doing a club sanctioned painting class. Continue to marinate on that Spirits but remember that food and drinks are allowed!
In an effort to undermine all that is holy and pure in our club, Indy introduced a motion to give people accolades. This is to counteract the avalanche of chastisements we like to do. Seriously though, I think accolades is an excellent addition to our club meetings and thank you Indy for the idea. And she led by example by commending JB on his book selection THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, which won the 2016 Book of the Year award. Also, Archimedes for participating in our American judicial system, and Chief and Boss for participating in the book club by reading or submitting books. Well done Indy!
Lastly, we threw out the idea of getting Chief in on our book selection rotation. He is at a level now where he can certainly participate in our books (in my opinion at least. But I know I'm biased). So instead of maintaining the "Chief's Bonus Book" section of the club, we would just include him in our monthly book selections and discussions. Less pressure on him that way since he was having to provide a book each month, whereas we only have to submit a book every 7 weeks or so. But, just think about that, no pressure. We don't have to if the club doesn't want to.
Okay, well there was a brief, if not concise wrap-up for the business portions of the past two to seventeen meetings, depending on how you keep count.
Hope everyone is doing well. Shout out to Diesel for doing an excellent job on the note taking, miss you. And I continue to thoroughly enjoy this book club. I love hanging out with everyone, and in my own mind at least, I feel like I have become smarter and more analytical (probably more mature) due to book club, so thanks folks.
Baron
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