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BOOK CLUB SEASON 3:

Today we wrapped up Ice Planet Barbarians and overall its been a positive experience and a nice break after 11/22/63.

Books in the running today:

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird
• Manacled - Fanfic
• Last Days by Adam Neville

After rolling a D4 we landed on 1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel

The book is broken down into Sections and chapters. Chapters are very short, so the group has decided to do it as 1 section per week. 9 sections total. We may go to 2 sections a week depending on how it goes.

Happy reading.

Week 7: Americana

This week we are reading and discussing chapter 14 and 15.

Week 5-6: Living in the Past

We will not be meeting on Sunday 8/7/2023 due to most of us being busy with travel but we are planning on meeting the next Sunday 8/14/2023.

With that, the group has agreed that our next reading selection is all of Part 3, chapters 9-13.

This post will serve as a backup on-going discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some discussion questions to get started:

• Do you think Jake did the right thing in this first trip to 1958
• Will Jakes cell-phone in the lake come up again? (it is a Nokia after all)
• Is the past going to get more obturate the longer he stays there?
• did he cause any massive changed in 2011?

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Happy Reading.

Week 4: The Past is Obdurate.

This is a catchup post for the community. I forgot to make a the week 3 post and the week 4 post is being made after the discussion. I will post the next discussion this week.

Questions for this week:

• Did you suspect No Suspenders to be involved?
• How did you feel about Dunning's choice of weapon?
• How will Harry be different in 2011?
• Did you make the connection to Steven Kings IT and Derry?
• Are the associations with IT working for you?

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Happy Reading.

Week 2: Life Turns on a Dime.

This week we are reading and discussing chapters 3 and 4 of 11/22/63 by Steven King.

Week 2 meeting will be on Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST.

We are considering recording our meeting sessions but we will see how that goes. It may turn in to a twitch stream.

This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some of our discussion questions to get started:

• Did you have any preconceived notions about Steven King and his writing?
• Have you read any of his previous works?
• Where do you think the story is going?
• What do you think of the main character?
• Does anything stand out to you about the writing style?
• Any particular lines that stood out to you?

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Happy Reading.

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Week 1 WELCOME

This is our first post. It will be updated with a basic summary of what was covered and serve as a backup discussion for anyone that cant make our usual Sunday meeting.

The club has nominated 11/22/63 by Steven King as our first book. Our first discussion will be Sunday 7/9/2023 covering chapters 1-2.

If you need a copy of the book we can provide a pdf.

Happy reading.

EDIT UPDATE:

First meeting down. We covered the prologue and chapters 1-2.

We have decided to stick with the Sunday 9pm meeting time. This week we will be reading chapters 3-4 and discuss this Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. That discussion will continue on the Week 2 post.