OFFICIAL NIKETALK BOOK CLUB. #NTBookClub: A Tale For The Time Being By Ruth Ozeki (June 2015)

[jm9312]

I'm here for this. Sorry I can't figure out how to make the font red on my phone.

 

[davidme00]

davidme00

Thanks for setting up the thread Drew. Are we going to retire the old thread? I'm currently knocking out on average of a book a day (multiple books on the weekend) so I just want to know whether we should still post non-Book of the Month titles in here as well or keep those in the old thread

 

[heatpinoyboy]

[COLOR=#red]Add me on the list, the summer awaits[/COLOR]

 

[suberzat1]

Na keep the old thread

 

[drew]

need an add... thanks

I'm here for this. Sorry I can't figure out how to make the font red on my phone.

[COLOR=#red]Add me on the list, the summer awaits[/COLOR]

I've got you guys added into the book club.



-Drew

 

[drew]

davidme00

Thanks for setting up the thread Drew. Are we going to retire the old thread? I'm currently knocking out on average of a book a day (multiple books on the weekend) so I just want to know whether we should still post non-Book of the Month titles in here as well or keep those in the old thread

Na keep the old thread

davidme00 No worries at all, bro! I'm happy we can get something like this going.


Personally, I don't mind whether we talk about other books besides the book of the month here and there, but suberzat1 has a point with keeping the old thread alive so we can stay in focus with this thread.



Lastly, I think I'm going to divide the groups up now.

We have enough members to have 2 groups of 5 and 1 group of 4.



-Drew

 

[drew]

I've got everyone divided into their own groups now, fellas.

Are you guys comfortable if I accept nominations from Group 1 already?



-Drew

 

[omariwestafari]

omariwestafari

On mobile so idk how to red text

Add me to the list fam

 

[bballermarkie]

I've got everyone divided into their own groups now, fellas.

Are you guys comfortable if I accept nominations from Group 1 already?



-Drew

Yeah sure lets get it going

 

[drew]

omariwestafari

On mobile so idk how to red text

Add me to the list fam

I got you, bro. No problem!

You're in Group 3.



We've got an even number across the board in the groups now.



-Drew

 

[drew]

I've got everyone divided into their own groups now, fellas.

Are you guys comfortable if I accept nominations from Group 1 already?



-Drew

Yeah sure lets get it going

Awesome.



-Drew

 

[suberzat1]

when does everyone want to start suggesting books?

 

[drew]

@datkidfiasco mrswagtastic bballermarkie @rocman23


I'm going to need you guys to PM me your nominations for the book of the month.

Feel free to post details or a summary of your nominated books on the thread so the rest of the members can get an idea of what the book is about.

I'll put the poll up once I get the PMs from you guys and we can get to deciding on our first book.



-Drew

 

[bballermarkie]

quick take from Wikipedia about my book choice 2666

2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it relates, among other things, the unsolved and ongoing serial female homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories.

The novel's five parts are linked by varying degrees of concern with unsolved murders of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in Ciudad Juárez (Santa Teresa in the novel) though it is the fourth part which focuses specifically on the femicides.

 

[drew]

Would you guys oppose if I nominate a book I'm reading right now?

I'm not too far into it at all, yet. I'm like 50 pages in.



-Drew

 

[mrswagtastic]

I'd like to nominate "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"- Paulo Freire.

It discusses the relationship between teachers(the oppressors) and students(the oppressed) and how the current educational practices are flawed.

"In the book Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model" because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank. However, he argues for pedagogy to treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge."

I've been always meaning to give this a read when Lupe referred to it in one of his interviews, it's more of a conscious read but I think it would make for great discussion.

 

[drew]

Here's a description of my nomination (taken from Amazon).


A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.

Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

-Drew

 

[drew]

Ok, so I've got the nominations and book descriptions up on the first page.

I'm thinking of putting up the poll for voting now.

How long do you guys think I should have the poll up for?



-Drew

 

[bballermarkie]

Ok, so I've got the nominations and book descriptions up on the first page.

I'm thinking of putting up the poll for voting now.

How long do you guys think I should have the poll up for?



-Drew

How two days?

 

[drew]

Ok, so I've got the nominations and book descriptions up on the first page.

I'm thinking of putting up the poll for voting now.

How long do you guys think I should have the poll up for?



-Drew

How two days?

Sounds good.

Let's see how this works out.



-Drew

 

[suberzat1]

So these the books we are rolling with

 

[drew]

Poll is up on our book for June 2015, guys.

It'll be closing on the midnight of June 3rd, so get your votes in.

Book descriptions of the choices can be seen on the first page.



-Drew

 

[drew]

So these the books we are rolling with

Yup. The first 5 up on the poll are the choices for this month.



-Drew

 

[bballermarkie]

We got 15 people right?

Hopefulyl we don't get a tie

 

[melo0115]

Good job on setting all this up Drew. 

Lets get these votes in guys.