Please vote on first book & day/time for book club

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Hi Everybody,

 

Re the book club that we're trying to get off the ground:

 

Please vote for your favorite book on the list below for our first book, if you think there's a relatively good chance that you'll try to attend the first discussion meeting.

 

The deadline for voting is Monday, 19 September.

 

Also, please either make some suggestions for our once a month meeting day and time, and/or please share days/times that aren't good for you.

 

Because I nominated the books, I won't also vote for my choice of book. I will share that I can never meet on Thursdays, but that I will try to be flexible about being to be there for other days/times most suggested.

 

For your vote and suggestions, you can either email me at LHveganliving, send me a personal message at www.bayareaveg.org/forum/ where my member name is LHLisavegan, or you can post on the running book club discussion thread at http://www.bayareaveg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=638 & start=30 (where it's very easy to register if you haven't already done so).

 

Once the votes are in and I see how many people might be interested, I'll make some arrangements, or Tammy probably will if an ar/veg book is selected. If it looks as though we'll have 6-15 people, I'll make a reservation for a private room at the San Francisco Public Library. If we have just a few people, all of us can decide on a good veg*n restaurant where we could meet the first time; perhaps sometime in October.

 

As votes and suggestions come in, I will edit my post on the web site to show the running tally: http://www.bayareaveg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=638 & start=30

 

And, if you've emailed me, I will email back when some decisions are made in case you don't have web access. I really think that this could be a fun activity so I hope that it comes to fruition.

 

Thank you so much for your participation. I'm looking forward to getting together with everyone!

Lisa

 

Once again, please vote on one of the following books:

ideas for first book:

 

general books for 8 of the 12 meetings:

 

fiction:

 

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

China Boy by Gus Lee [first/current SF city book club selection]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

 

nonfiction:

 

Blackbird A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

 

 

Tammy's suggestions for the ar/veg 4 of 12 of the meetings:

 

Living Among Meat Eaters by Carol Adams

The China Study by T. Colin Campbell