What You Missed

I apologize in advance for the bullet-pointedness of this post :) 

Things we discussed and voted on at club tonight: 

• We will update the blog at the end of each club meeting with the location of the next meeting as well as with the title for the next book we choose.  
• Chris will be the contact for everyone if you have any questions and he'll send a reminder text a couple of days before the club
• To make snack coordination easier for everyone, we decided to start a rotation that Chris will keep track of.  If you  host the club meeting at your house, you don't need to worry about bringing any snack stuff that night.  We're going to try it to see how it works out and hopefully it will make things easier to coordinate.  
• Because From Hell is proving difficult to find and is really expensive to buy, we decided to push it back another two weeks.  Hopefully that will give everyone time to find a copy and read it since it is so large.  We decided to pick a small book that will be easy to read in the meantime.  And the winner is.....Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick.
• The book after From Hell will be...... Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.  There are a lot of copies at the library but they are all checked out so hopefully this will give us enough time to put them on hold and read them before then. 
• Lastly, after Fight Club we will read H. P. Lovecraft. Instead of reading a specific book or story, we voted to have each person pick 2-3 short stories and we will talk about what we read.  It could be a really interesting way to review him as an author and see what themes we pick up on.  Check the Lovecraft post for a link to a bunch of his stories available online. 

This week's Quote of the night: "Ben and I have a history of Lovecraft!!!" Chris Lake 

And for the vote results so far (the poll is still up and running on the lefthand side of the blog if you want to vote):

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert	0 (0%)
Firmin by Sam Savage	1 (16%)
Pastoralia by George Saunders	0 (0%)
The Astonshing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson	0 (0%)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson	2 (33%)
Lefthand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin	1 (16%)
Maus I and Maus II by Art Speigelman	2 (33%)
Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami	3 (50%)
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers	0 (0%)
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier	1 (16%)
Lush Life by Richard Price	2 (33%)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman	1 (16%)
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett	1 (16%)
The Plague by Albert Camus	1 (16%)
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis	2 (33%)
Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett	1 (16%)
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith	0 (0%)