Club Events 2007 : 2007-07-04 : CCC - Outdoor Literary Appreciation

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Here's a chance to express your unique perspective on your favourite literary piece. Everyone will have 10 minutes to read an excerpt from one (or two) of their favorite works and discuss why it's a favourite.

This is a casual and easy-going event - do NOT be intimidated and do NOT feel that you have to choose something HIGH BROW. Any genre is acceptable from sci-fi short stories to classical poetry to Dr. Seuss. If your piece is in a foreign language please be prepared to translate.

NOTE that this event will be postponed if the weather is not good for sitting around in the park for the evening.

An amazing evening with perfect warm conditions, no bugs, and a great sunset. Fantastic, eclectic collection of literary pieces to appreciate (as usual). :)

Here's what we appreciated this evening:
- Dave Barry: 1000 Years of Serenity Waiting for Customer Service
- Wendell Barry: Whitefoot (from the Jan/Feb 2007 Orion magazine)
- Helen Forrester: A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin
- Michael Jecks: The Abbott's Gibbet
- Bradley Trevor Greive: The Book for People who do Too Much
- Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors
- Neil Strauss: The Game - Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
- John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
- Guy De Maupassant: Minuet
- Robert A. Heinlein: The Door Into Summer


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