Welcome to 2014!

Hi Bookenders!

Welcome to a new year! Now that first week of classes are almost done and the homework has started piling up, take some time to think about the fun extra-curriculars you'll be doing this year!

Bookends is back for another year, though with new management.

For the last four years, it has been my pleasure to run this club and meet with all of you book-lovers every month to discuss books, movies, and life. However, all good things come to an end. I am graduating and handing over the reigns to Thurga, a Bookends regular whom many of you might have met through our meetings. Thurga is a third year life science student and I have no doubt she will be a very capable Bookends Director.

She is currently busy organizing our first meeting of the year. Look for an email from her in the upcoming week and mark your calendars for meeting. It'll be a fun way to meet more people who enjoy reading and talk about the books you'd like to read in the upcoming year.

I look forward to attending as many meetings as I can this year and meeting more awesome Bookenders!

Best wishes and have a great year!
- Aditi.

Book of February

It's that time of the year! Pink and red dominate all shops and little hearts are everywhere...
...so we thought we'd deviate from stereotypes a little bit, and read something different this February.

Here is your book of Feb 2014!

January movie + meeting details

The votes are out!

Thanks to everyone who voted. The rooms are all booked, so here are the details for our first meeting this semester:

Movie: Up

We're starting off the semester by screening Up, a heartwarming tale of 78-year-old Carl who ties thousands of balloons to his home, and sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years younger, inadvertently becomes a stowaway.

When: 4:00 PM on Friday, Jan 17
Where: Room 1, Media Commons at Robarts Library, 3rd floor

Meeting

When: 6:00 PM on Friday, Jan 17

Where: Sammy's Student Exchange, Hart House

We will hold our meeting after the movie screening, so if you can't make it to the movie, but would like to join us for the meeting, you're more than welcome! We will be walking over from Robarts to Sammy's around 5:45 so if you are around Robarts and would like to join us, meet us in Media Commons.

I look forward to seeing old and new members this Friday!

- Aditi

Welcome back! Book of January + meeting

Book of January

January is upon us , so that means time for a new book! For this month, we wanted to go with theme of "new years resolutions" or "to-do list". I know all of us have books that we have always wanted to read but never quite gotten to it, or have resolutions which can be helped by reading certain books. Anything you think will help you improve yourself, that's the book we want you to read for January. And since everyone is different, we've decided to let you guys choose your own book and read it this month.

Not sure where to start? Here are some suggestions (courtesy of Goodreads)!

• "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" by Malcolm Gladwell
• "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" by Stephen R. Covey
• "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
• "How to Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs" by Paul Rega (for those of us graduating! :P)
• "My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind" by Scott Stossel
• "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness" by Susannah Cahalan
• "A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers and the Internet" by Sara Baase

These are just some suggestions. I know these are all non-fiction books, but you are free to read whatever you want (including fiction). If there's a book you think everyone should read at some point, email us and we'll pass it along!

This month's meeting

Our next meeting will be two-folded. At our actual meeting, we will be getting together to meet new members and discuss the books we read in January. Additionally, we will also be hosting a movie night this month!

Click here to vote for a day / time: http://www.doodle.com/4rch5u4s57bc7h94To suggest a movie, comment below or email us at bookendsuoft@yahoo.com

Happy reading!

- Aditi.

Book of November 2013

So at the end of October we had a very successful (and "thrilling"!) movie night. I would like to thank everyone who came out and made it a success.

In past meetings, we have disccused the possibility of having this book as our Book of November, and we finalized it at our last meeting.

So, the Book of November will be...

October movie night - final details!

Playing: The Shining
Location: Board Room, Hart House
Date: Oct 25, 2013
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Note: drinks should be okay, but food is not allowed in the Board Room.

Book of October 2013

It's here! Our theme for this month was thriller/horror. This book is a companion to the movie we will be watching at the end of this month, and is sure to scare your socks off!