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living, speaking poetry

Poetry is necessary!  It supplies our minds and souls with valuable access to this mysterious gig we call life. Beyond that, I’ll let you in on a secret: poetry is fun. Somewhere along the line,...

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3 Poems by E.E. Cummings Poetry Discussion

"fourth-dimensional abstraction" by E.E. Cummings The exhilirating and wildly popular 3 Poems by… Poetry Discussion Group continues this month with a visit to the lovely, perplexing and sometimes...

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Our spirituality book club has been reincarnated and born again

At our last meeting, we decided to change the Pathfinders Spirituality Book Club schedule to a series format—we will meet in September, October and November, rather than every other month. We also...

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club

On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. in the Music Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Library (Oakland), we begin a program about which we are very excited, the Pittsburgh...

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Get Together and Read

photo courtesy of http://www.book-club-queen.com You might not know it, but October is National Reading Group Month. Strangely enough, people all over the country like to get together and discuss the...

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3 Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

Our most recent meeting of the 3 Poems By…Poetry Discussion Group focused on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa.  The poems we discussed were ”Facing It” from the collection Dien Cai Dau, “The Towers”...

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What America Ate

Tonight I will be facilitating Dish! A Foodie Book Club. We will discuss The Food of a Younger Land, edited by Mark Kurlansky.  This book is a compilation of previously unpublished essays about how...

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It’s a Mystery to Me . . .

Photo courtesy of http://www.borinvanloon.co.uk/loonblankpage.html ©2004 Copyright Borin Van Loon Did you know that there are over  35 awards given annually for mystery books?  How is that even...

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Not a Devil to Read and Not a Violin Nightmare

Last time around, I gave you a listening list of horn music in preparation for our Pittsburgh Symphony Book Club discussion of Jasper Rees’ A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the...

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Spoilers (Warning: Does Not Contain Spoilers)

Unlike the Pittsburgh Symphony Book Club, which is a part of my job as a music librarian, my other book club is an outside of work affair.  I know, one would think we librarians would get enough book...

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Book Club Bonanza

The nice thing about book clubs is sometimes you’re forced to read a genre or author that’s outside of your regular ‘safe zone.’ And sometimes you can force the other people in your group to read the...

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Help Me Choose: YA Book Club Edition

Before I ever worked for the Library, I was a member of a Young Adult book club. Our book club has gone through a few different iterations, but in the past year or so, we’ve settled into a pretty great...

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