Beers and a Book

Another fine Mountain Meeting Solitude at Silver Fork Solitude at PZ’s place on Friday night, August 27th. Lots o’rain, lots o’beer (and whisky) and good discussion about the last book, “Tortilla Flat” by John Steinbeck written in 1935. All the paisanos attending enjoyed the camaraderie, even though there wasn’t a gallon of wine in sight! [...]

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I take the last Friday of the month and pull out my best thrift store tie in honor of the greatest decade ever. And I’d like to say a few words on the subject:

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Who knew that the underground man would literally be underground? Here are the important details from our last book club. Follow the bullets. I schooled Michael at darts. Later, Jaron schooled us all at darts. I now use my blog powers to declare Jaron the reigning champion! I stayed up way past my bedtime. I’m [...]

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Top ‘o the mornin. Looking at our list ‘o books, I was wondering how you’d rank them. In honor of St. Patrick and all of the unholy snakes he drove out of Ireland, let’s toast to good reads and share your list ‘o the top 5. Here are mine: 1. The Stars My Destination – the classic, the sleeper, the [...]

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It seems most everyone enjoyed the novel. Perfume seems a very un-beersandabook-like title. But the amoral protagonist with olfactory superpowers was oddly appealing. We discussed the book, my own latent superpowers, and religion. We also agreed to new rules on choosing books. Now book club members bring one book choice to each meeting if they [...]

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The last general and totally informal straw poll was to have a book club meeting this Friday night (8pm, Man Cove). Everyone in? Discussion will revolve around Mr. Friedman’s “Hot, Flat and Crowded” as well as the new selection from Gary, “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind. (As it turns out, this weekend is also a full [...]

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Well…did it grab your attention? I just thought I’d take this moment to say a few useless words and post the picture that went around earlier today.

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The book: City of Thieves by David Benioff The time: Saturday December 12th 8PM-ish The place: Man Cove (unofficially, as Jason hasn’t confirmed) See you there!

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Enough of this nonfiction I say. We need a novel. We need something fantastic, something thrilling, something to appeal to the beer-sodden souls of our crowd. I chose three different genres: thriller/historical fiction, fantasy/historical fiction, and what I guess we would call good ole literary fiction, though a literary novel about a raging alcoholic sports [...]

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