BOOK CLUB! BOOK CLUB!
But first.......Jerry Springer The Opera? Honestly? No joshin'?
Now. Book club.
omfg That was so much fun. Good, Englishey fun. And if you think that's dorky, don't tell me you've never had a fun night enjoying the guilty pleasures of your area of collegiate expertise. I've seen archaeology majors scream at the movie screen for Gladiator's historical innacuracies, I know cellulomollecular biologist who reads the active ingredients in all her over the counters, a Journalism major who reports gossip like its front page Washington Post material, and yes, I've stumbled upon some well-kept-secret, computer engineer LAN parties.
So please, allow me my Engrishy, Engrishy fun.
Well, I held it at in the Westbury Tea Room, a large, fireplace-and-leather-sofa-filled venue in a 4-star hotel in town. We sipped and spoke. It was classy. It was 5 of us in total, a phenomenal book club number, actually. And we're all from different places and ages, some from Poland, some from Dublin, some from other parts of Ireland, me from MI (holla!), so that adds such an extra layer of perspective that I don't think I could get out of a book club back home.
Everyone had read, everyone had insightful thoughts to share, and everyone (I think) had a good time. In fact, our one hour meeting ran over into two becuase everyone had more and more to discuss, and we all walked out together talking about future meetings in a flurry of excitement.
I was so proud of my little group! And I have to say, I prepared quite a bit for the meeting and it was really fun facilitating discussion! I loved thinking of questions, researching the book, reading other reviews and more. And Beth helped me a lot by reading the book too, which gave me even more things to think about and bring to the discussion. :)
It was a perfect first meeting and I'm so very glad it went well. For next month, we'll be reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugendes. It took the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 2005.....and also.....sigh.....it was an Oprah Book Club book, so it's got some pretty good laurels there. Well, so let me know if you do read; I'd love to hear what you think of it.
That was great! It was SOOO much fun. There was a guy who came named Eoghan ("Owen" in Irish) who had never thought about a book analytically, and when we first started talking he hadn't picked up on basically anything while he was reading, but as we talked, I watched him begin to consider the book more critically, and in the end he was proposing meanings for metaphors and identifying tropes and themes and the whole thing. It was really amazing--I was able to witness someone reach a deeper level of understanding of a book, which was pretty cool.
Again, allow me my Englishieness, you jerk. :P
So that was yesterday. Tired is today. Also, flowcharts. I've got a stack of flowcharts a mile high...or a kilometer high, lol, or whatever. Let me get crackin' on that now.
Flowcharts: The opposite of English major fun.
But first.......Jerry Springer The Opera? Honestly? No joshin'?
Now. Book club.
omfg That was so much fun. Good, Englishey fun. And if you think that's dorky, don't tell me you've never had a fun night enjoying the guilty pleasures of your area of collegiate expertise. I've seen archaeology majors scream at the movie screen for Gladiator's historical innacuracies, I know cellulomollecular biologist who reads the active ingredients in all her over the counters, a Journalism major who reports gossip like its front page Washington Post material, and yes, I've stumbled upon some well-kept-secret, computer engineer LAN parties.
So please, allow me my Engrishy, Engrishy fun.
Well, I held it at in the Westbury Tea Room, a large, fireplace-and-leather-sofa-filled venue in a 4-star hotel in town. We sipped and spoke. It was classy. It was 5 of us in total, a phenomenal book club number, actually. And we're all from different places and ages, some from Poland, some from Dublin, some from other parts of Ireland, me from MI (holla!), so that adds such an extra layer of perspective that I don't think I could get out of a book club back home.
Everyone had read, everyone had insightful thoughts to share, and everyone (I think) had a good time. In fact, our one hour meeting ran over into two becuase everyone had more and more to discuss, and we all walked out together talking about future meetings in a flurry of excitement.
I was so proud of my little group! And I have to say, I prepared quite a bit for the meeting and it was really fun facilitating discussion! I loved thinking of questions, researching the book, reading other reviews and more. And Beth helped me a lot by reading the book too, which gave me even more things to think about and bring to the discussion. :)
It was a perfect first meeting and I'm so very glad it went well. For next month, we'll be reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugendes. It took the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 2005.....and also.....sigh.....it was an Oprah Book Club book, so it's got some pretty good laurels there. Well, so let me know if you do read; I'd love to hear what you think of it.
That was great! It was SOOO much fun. There was a guy who came named Eoghan ("Owen" in Irish) who had never thought about a book analytically, and when we first started talking he hadn't picked up on basically anything while he was reading, but as we talked, I watched him begin to consider the book more critically, and in the end he was proposing meanings for metaphors and identifying tropes and themes and the whole thing. It was really amazing--I was able to witness someone reach a deeper level of understanding of a book, which was pretty cool.
Again, allow me my Englishieness, you jerk. :P
So that was yesterday. Tired is today. Also, flowcharts. I've got a stack of flowcharts a mile high...or a kilometer high, lol, or whatever. Let me get crackin' on that now.
Flowcharts: The opposite of English major fun.
Good choice! I loved Middlesex. Have you read 'I Know This Much Is True". It's pretty stinkin' good.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming the "reports gossip like its front page Washington Post material" refers to me. Hey, I can't help it if EPI provides so much material ;)
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