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Book Events April 28-May 4

29 Apr

This week’s bookish events are listed below. Please feel free to distribute this notecard to others. If you have future events you would like to include, please contact Simeon Beresford, Kghia Gherardi or Salamander Clary.

Thursday, May 1, 6:00-8:00 pm
Discussion Group at Fiction and Lattes…Science Fiction Literature
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66

From Star Trek to Phil K. Dick and from Star Wars to William Gibson we will cover the gamut of the genre. All in a span of two tidy hours. So, wear your favorite SF avatar and come and discuss your favorite works of science fiction.

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Thursday, May 1, 7pm
Steelhead Public Library Book Discussion: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24

Haunt your favorite library or booksellers and please join us on Thursday, May 1, at 7 pm to discuss Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage – a story of how Lewis and Clark came to the Pacific Northwest and set the stage for our settlement of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.  In this regard we are looking to a future writer to better
understand our past. Come along with us!

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Saturday, May 4, Noon @ Bookstacks
Bookstacks Book Trivia – Mysteries
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49

Simeon Beresford will be asking book-related trivia questions about the mystery genre. Costumes are encouraged. Winner takes home $250 lindens.

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Sunday, May 4, 11:00 a.m.@ Bookstacks
Book Discussion: Guilty Pleasures @ Bookstacks
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49

High brow literature has its place, but we all have a guilty pleasure. Something that might surprise other to know we read. Share your guilty pleasures – you might find a kindred reader.

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Sunday, May 4, 3:00 p.m.@ Milkwood
Guild of UK Writers Book Discussion Circle : A Thousand Splendid Suns
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Plarmigan/172/140/22

Join us on Sunday 4th May at 3:00 PM SLT at the beach campfire on MILK WOOD, to discuss this wonderful book.

 
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Posted by on April 29, 2008 in Uncategorized

 

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Book Fair April 25-27

25 Apr

This weekend is the annual Book Island/Publishers Island Book Fair. Activities begin Friday evening and run through Sunday. Simeon Beresford will be hosting his weekly trivia game at Book Island on Sunday at 11 a.m. The complete events calendar is included below.

Friday 25th

  • 2pm Opening Ceremony (Cartland Court)
  • 3pm Marylmagner Munz reading from The Big Secret by Mary Magner (Beach Area)
  • 3pm Threik Wilkinson reading from The Courage of Intimacy by Keith Ainsworth (Open Books)
  • 3pm Kabbalah Today – live Kabbalah concert and Q&A session (Publishing Island stage)
  • 4pm tbc.
  • 5pm Madddyyy Schnook – Building for Beginners (Slguides Virtual Learning Centre)
  • 5pm-7pm – DJs Shannah Halberd and Rat Halberd from Simkast (Cartland Court)
  • 7pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)

Saturday 26th

  • 6am Discussion: Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Selina Greene (Beach Area)
  • 7am tbc
  • 8am Nebbisk Oh – ‘Fictionary’ game where you make up definitions to fool your opponents. (Beach Area)
  • 9am Madddyyy Schnook – Marketing and Sales in virtual worlds (Book Island stage)
  • 10am Babu Writer – Amazon and POD – what’s going on? (Publishing Island stage)
  • 10am Selina Greene – the RL Book publishing process – talk and Q&A (Book Island stage)
  • 11am Cricket Gears – How Art and Music Can Change the World (Cartland Court stage)
  • 12pm Trinity Dechou, Voodoo Buwan – Rez Magazine debate on inworld Publishing (Cartland Court stage)
  • 1pm Noble Charron – Characterization – the Soul of the Story – Lecture and Q&A by bestselling author, Michael A Stackpole (Beach Area)
  • 2pm Elan Neruda – Paying the Bills While Paying Your Dues: a partially practical guide to writing genre fiction for a living (Publishing Island stage)
  • 2pm-4pm Miriam Antonelli DJ (Cartland Court)
  • 3pm Madddyyy Schnook – Building for Beginners (SLGuides)
  • 4pm Diana Allandale – Promoting Yourself, from and Author’s POV, workshop with author Diana Hunter (Beach Area)
  • 5pm Wilbur Rich – reading

Sunday 27th

  • 6am Discussion: What’s SLove got to do with it? RL/SL relationship pleasures and pitfalls. Selina Greene (Beach Area)
  • 7am DJ Doubledown Tandino spins his signature blend of nujazz and house in a live turntable mix (Cartland Court)
  • 8am Discussion – What makes a book a cult book, rather than just a good book? Selina Greene (Beach Area)
  • 9am Jilly Kidd hosts readings from writers in the Written Word group (beach area)
  • 10am Sean Voss – Author Sean Percival, The Second Life In-World Travel Guide talk, Q&A (Book Island stage)
  • 10am Madddyyy Schbook – Building for Beginners (SLGuides)
  • 11am Simeon Beresford – Literary quiz (Book Island stage)
  • 12pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)
  • 1pm Kitumscheid Writer – the publishing process for illustrated books, based on experiences from her book, Pirate’s Alphabet (Publishing Island stage)
  • 1pm-3pm – DJ Ravishal Bentham from Kona Radio (Cartland Court)
  • 3pm – Diana Allandale – The Ins and Outs of Writing Erotica workshop with author, Diana Hunter (Beach Area)
  • 4pm Arton Tripsa – The Writing Life: The Creation Of A Novel, a talk/Q&A with Jane Watson, author of the Hindustan Contessa (Book Island stage)
  • 5pm Closing ceremony and after party (Cartland Court)

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Posted by on April 25, 2008 in events, trivia

 

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Wednesday Update

23 Apr

This week is the Book Fair on Book Island. Have a look around, attend some events, and please seek out the Bookstacks stall.

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Thursday, April 24
Fiction & Latte Weekly Book Discussion – Topic TBA
5:00 PM SLT at Fiction & Latte Coffeehouse

Saturday, April 26
Moochers’ Meet
12 Noon SLT at Primula Rasa
Usually the Moochers’ Meet is held on Sunday, but this week due to the Book Fair, the quiz is going to be Sunday and the Meet will be Saturday. The week’s Meet is a chance to catch up on each others’ reading and lives in general, and at a very scenic location this week.

Bill and Pam Havercamp
3pm SLT at the Open Air Stage at Bookstacks
Live performance at Bookstacks.

Sunday, April 27
Caledon Library Book Discussion, “The Book of Practical Cats”
2:00 – 4:00 PM SLT at Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity

Bookstacks Trivia Game
11:00 AM SLT
Pulitzer Square Auditorium
This week we will hold our quiz not at the usual location, but at the SL Book Fair, giving a new audience a chance to sample the range of interests we encompass.

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If you have something to contribute here – a review of a bookish place, an upcoming event, or anything that you think might be of interest to Bookstacks members – please leave a comment or send the information to Salamander Clary.

 
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Posted by on April 23, 2008 in events

 

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