Thursday 10 October 2013

Meeting on October 10, 2013

This meeting was held in De Poste, with Barbara, Kat and Yvonne.  Bronwyn is await with her family.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupâery
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a littleprince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone--and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr.Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr.Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.

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