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[jeffreyab]

Back is still killing me, although intense in the morning it gets better as the day goes by.

Trying to do stuff is making my life interesting but I am getting some things done, others are going to have to wait.

I think the most interesting movie I have seen recently is "Michael Collins" about the Irish wars of the early 20th century. Collins is one of those might have been figures that get more interesting as you look at them. He ran and financed Ireland's war of independence and won the subsequent civil war albeit dying in the process.

Book club was interesting, I think a number of SF writers regard themselves as propagandists for the future they hope for, or hope to avoid. We discussed 3001 by Arthur Clarke which is mostly a travelogue for Clarke's vision of the future. The best part was the essay he wrote about writing it.

The book club will be ten next month! To celebrate we are doing Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood since our first book was Handmaid's Tale by her.

Comments

[cohen7.livejournal.com]

what is the age range that usually attends the book club?

Book Club Age

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

The mean is in their sixties but we have gone as low as elementary school age, with parent for the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

But with this group age is an expression not a mind set!

One guy has been to all the continents, one lady is a Unitarian, another is Ayn Rand/ James Joyce fan.

Re: Book Club Age

[cohen7.livejournal.com]

for sure - i'm definitely not ageist, just curious. when i lived in petrolia, i belonged to a writers group at the petrolia library. generally there were 3 or 4 of us - the mean being 40's. never seemed to matter either.

Re: Book Club Age

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

THe writers group here in town is a bit older.

They meet at the Lawrence House and I believe are now called Writers in Transition.

Do you write horror?

One of the attendees at Genrecon is a horror editor and writer.

Re: Book Club Age

[cohen7.livejournal.com]

horror? not so much. basic contemporary fare. no real genre.

Writing Group

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

That is what Writers in Transition usually writes.

Many of them do a weekly column for the Observer.

Re: Writing Group

[cohen7.livejournal.com]

yeah...i'm kind of familliar with them. the scare me ;)

Re: Writing Group

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

My friend Jeff Fitzgerald said much the same thing as they were older and published but you have to start somewhere.

Re: Writing Group

[cohen7.livejournal.com]

oh no no, not because they are older and published (i've been published myself, so that means anyone can ;)....i guess more just the impression of pretension that i receive. i guess if anything - a writer's group can be a cheap way of legitmacy, opposed to the honest hope of sharing and learning.

Life at the library

[big-beginings.livejournal.com]

Hey,

What's it like to work in an environment like the Sarnia library? I mean there are a lot of cool people around. You must find some of the characters amusing? Does anybody ever get on your nerves? And how did you guys come up with all of the computer names.

Jeff
P.S. Favourite movie, music and actor?