i may need to sit month 1 out unless the pick is short btw
quite busy atm
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Whereâs the caterpillar?
Too many people have already read it.
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all clear. will assemble a poll soonTM
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:( sad
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Below is a poll. Select the books you are interested in reading
Book Selection
- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro; from Ash
- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes; from Ishmael
- This Is Where It Ends, by Marieke Nijkamp; from Willow
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson; from orangeandblack5
- Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories, by Agatha Christie; from lol
- This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib, by Quan Millz; from jail
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; from Geyde
- Time is a Mother, by Ocean Vuong; from Carbonated
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Below is a write up i found online for each book
The Remains of the Day
This is Kazuo Ishiguroâs profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the âgreat gentleman,â Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlingtonâs âgreatness,â and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixoteâs fancy often leads him astrayâhe tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giantsâSancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readersâ imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
This Is Where It Ends
10:00 a.m.: The principal of Opportunity, Alabamaâs high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.
10:02 a.m.: The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.
10:03 a.m.: The auditorium doors wonât open.
10:05 a.m.: Someone starts shooting.
Over the course of 54 minutes, four students must confront their greatest hopes, and darkest fears, as they come face-to-face with the boy with the gun. In a world where violence in schools is at an all-time high and school shootings are a horrifyingly common reality for teenagers, This Is Where It Ends is a rallying cry to end the gun violence epidemic for good.
Neuromancer
Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didnât just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term âcyberpunk,â for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancerâs virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibsonâs gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christieâs most famous creation, Hercule Poirot.
The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century - and, in his own humble opinion, is âprobably the greatest detective in the worldâ.
In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts - all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirotâs skill and âlittle gray cellsâ.
This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib
Austin Watkins, 35 and a single father, finds himself in a precarious situation. Currently locked up in Chicagoâs Cook County Jail, he knows that Fredquisha, the trifling mother of his only daughter, is a despicable, careless and reckless THOT who is the antithesis of caring, loving black motherhood.Wanting to see her son gain full redemption from his current situation, Delores Watkins, better known as Mrs. Watkins, is also hellbent on rescuing Austinâs six-year-old daughter, Myyah, from the clutches of relentless psychological, emotional and physical abuse she suffers at the hands of Fredquisha. Hoping her son works hard to change the course of his life for the betterment of his daughter, Mrs. Watkins explores the possibility of challenging Fredquishaâs custody of Myyah. But as she navigates the complex, red-tape filled bureaucracy of child welfare services, Mrs. Watkins decides to take things in her own hand and is willing to put her life on the line for the salvation of her granddaughter. Fredquisha Pierce, a native of the dangerous Englewood, Chicago, could give a two sh!ts about the welfare of her daughter. Her mission in life is simple. Get money, smoke good weed and ride bomb dâk. Nothing more, nothing less. After meeting a potential new bae, Fredquisha needs to make some lifestyle changes so she can upgrade her section 8 squalor living situation. However, a looming pregnancy threatens to unravel her plans for a big come up.This book is another episodic chronicle born out of the dark, gritty, social drama storytelling talent of urban fiction mastermind QUAN MILLZ. THIS HOE GOT ROACHES IN HER CRIB will deliver a gut-punching blow to those who donât understand the many trials and tribulations single fathers go through to rescue their children from manipulative ratchet women who use the family court system to their advantage.-This is a work of satirical fiction that could be described as a dark comedy combined with social commentary. In no way do the descriptions of the characters reflect my personal feelings or beliefs in regards to those of African descent, particularly Black women. The stereotypes employed in the book are deliberate in that I attempt to cast a light on the state of contemporary urban pulp fiction.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxleyâs profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling orderâall at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. âA genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machineâ (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of historyâs keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.
Time is a Mother
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth Weâre Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.
The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.
I hope you all enjoy picking out the first book for FoL bookclub
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also votes will not be revealed until close to try to avoid people sheeping one personâs pick
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Another matter for discussion is shall we hold our meetings live or PBP in thread
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PBP would be nice, weâre mafia fuckers who are used to it anyway and live is hard to coodinate/disappointing to miss
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Can we hve votes to execute people who fall too far behin d
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how would this affect your dream of the red chamber book club
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All of us dead
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This is getting ahead of ourselves but itâd be nice later on to do shorter books for one-offs in between longer commitments for people who might not be able to keep up w/ a book club consistently but have spare time Once
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another 20 trillion to dream of the red chamber
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yeah if an extra long book is picked then iâll try to dig up
a short story/novella for the interim
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say like if we do LOTR we might do it over 3 months but also tack on a short story each month to keep
people invested
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My friends got really obsessed with The Wings but I never read it
The book is to complicated for me can we not???
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how would you even do this live
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