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<ul><li>* Using Google Meet for the first time. (It worked out well, had good connections and everyone could use audio and video.)<li>* The book for May is Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer<li>* Voting for the June book will be a little different than usual. Instead of deciding during today’s meeting, I will post a Survey Monkey on the Facebook group.</ul><br>
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4/18/20 2-4 pm <br>
Met online via Google Meet<br>
''The Shadow of the Sun '' by Barbara Friend Ish<br>
Robert Allen was the coordinator. 7 people attended.
We went over these items:
'''Book discussion recap:'''<br>
This was our first high fantasy book. Some people like the genre, others not as much.
It was a long book (500 pages) and a bit of a slog. Only one person finished the book. The length had a lot to do with it, but interest in the book did too. Some felt that it could have been compressed into fewer pages.
The author did a lot of world -building -- histories, backgrounds, religions, etc. Some people like this, some don’t. But the world -building came in “info dumps” -- a lot of thrown at the reader at once. It would have been better if we had learned the history as the characters learned it.
The relationship between the male and female lead characters was a bit obvious and predictable. It didn’t seem particularly mature, more like a frat boy/frat girl relationship.
Because only one person finished the book, we could not talk about the ending.
'''June Book Nominations (winner in boldface):<br>'''* ''Flowers for Algernon '' by Daniel Keyes - Robert<br><b>* '''''Hild '' by Nicola Griffith - Wendy </b><br>'''* ''The Fifth Season '' by NK Jemisin - Leah<br>* ''Carry On '' by Rainbow Rowell- Brad<br>* ''A Closed and Common Orbit '' by Becky chambers - Brad
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