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Scifi book club recap: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2011 |

First, an announcement: for June only, the Scifi book club meeting will be at 6pm on the SECOND Tuesday, June 14, instead of the normal first Tuesday. We will be reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is the book that Jane Austen parodied in Northanger Abbey, and was also one of Edgar Allen Poe’s major [...]

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Scifi Book Club 1/3/11: The Darkship Thieves

Posted in books, tagged , , , on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Our December book club book was The Darkship Thieves by Sara Hoyt. Because of the weather and my poor memory, the author wasn’t able to join us after all, but we still had an energetic discussion. The story is a romantic space opera, told from the first-person perspective of a twenty-something princess with serious psychiatric [...]

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December’s Scifi Book Club Meeting

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , on December 27, 2010 |

Sorry for the delay in posting this recap. Our scifi book club meeting for December was our best-attended yet, with 11 participants!  We read Theodore Sturgeon’s The Dreaming Jewels.  It’s a very dark story of Horty, a boy with mysterious powers, who runs away to the carnival. Perhaps because Theodore Sturgeon was primarily a short [...]

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Scifi Book Club discussion: Brains, a Zombie Memoir

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last night’s scifi book club meeting was a little smaller, only four people, but I suspect that’s because a) the book didn’t appeal to the broader scifi crowd and b) it was voting day. We read Brains, A Zombie Memoir, by Robin Zecker. It’s a slim volume, only 178 pages, and it’s an almost-parody of [...]

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