Membership Confirmation

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of getting funding for our club! Yay! One of the conditions of the funding is that I provide a membership list of active members. If you consider yourself to be an active member of Bookends (you read the emails, or look at the website, or participate in the polls/come to meetings), then please send me an email with the following:

• your name
• your student number
• your program of study (PoSt)

This information is submitted for the express purpose of making sure you are UofT students. If you're not, don't worry, but you don't need to send that info! 

I will be accepting this info until Saturday, November 5, at 11:59 pm (for time-sensitive reasons). If you don't email me by this time, I'll assume you don't consider yourself an active member of Bookends. Thanks for your cooperation!

I've also attached a poll for our first social event -- Movie Night! You can vote on the movie below, and choose the date/time here. Both will close Saturday, November 5, at 11:59 pm as well (just to keep it simple).

Looking forward to your responses!

Best,

Taneeta

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Update - October Meeting

Helloooo Bookenders!

I was supposed to post this last week, so I'm very sorry for the delay! Hope your midterms have been swell and are winding down now that we're getting to November.

1. Meeting Date & Time
2. Add us on Facebook (and join the Social Committee!)
3. Discord app/website
4. Social Events - November and December

1. Meeting Date & Time
The room has finally been booked! Our meeting will be:

Monday, October 31, 5:00-6:00 pm
Hart House
North Dining Room (2nd floor)

There will be food, so if you can make it and would like to partake, please let me know of your dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, lactose-intolerant, etc.).

2. Add us on FB & Join the Social Committee
Our Social Committee member, Khushnuma Nafis, has set up a Facebook page and group. She will be posting info about our meetings and social events! If you want to be an admin, message her directly (and let me know too, if you want to be on the Social Committee but don't have Facebook!)

3. Reminder about Discord
We also have a discussion group on Discord. You don't need an account to join the conversation!

4. Social Events - Nov & Dec
Our two social events this semester will be (you guessed it) November and December! For November, we will have a Movie Night (TBD), and December, bring your favourite board game (and friends) to our Games Night! If you want to help plan either of these events, please message Khushnuma or reply to this email! (Dates, times, and places are forthcoming.)

Hope to see you on Monday!

Best,

Taneeta

October 2016 Book of the Month

Hope you had a great week. It's time to start reading, because the votes are in! The book for October is...

"Gerald's Game," by Stephen King.

Thanks for voting, and if you didn't get a chance, you can still vote for the time and date of our meeting until next Saturday, Oct 15, at 12:00 pm at this link. Join our discussion (if you haven't already) on Discord as we read! I'm looking forward to chatting with all of you.

Enjoy your long weekend!

Best,

Taneeta

Discussion Group

Hey everyone!

Thanks to a few of your fellow Bookenders, we have set up a discussion page! It's accessible at this link, and you don't need an account to participate in the conversation (though you can sign up with an email/password if you want to save your messages).

We'll use the discussion group to talk about the books we're reading, as prep for our meetings. You're not obligated to participate, but we'd love to hear what you're thinking as you read along!

For official/administrative information, I'll still communicate via email. This is just a fun way to meet other Bookenders and get some ideas flowing for some great conversation in person.

October 2016 Nominations

This month's theme is (seeing as it's October) Horror/Thriller. We have curated a list of nominations for you to choose from - pick your favourite and see what ends up as our book for the month!

I will add a *content warning* for graphic/disturbing content. You absolutely do not have to read a book you don't want to, and you're still welcome to come to the October meeting!

I am Legend / Richard Matheson

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.

By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.

How long can one man survive like this?

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Parasite Eve / Hideaki Sena

When Dr. Nagashima loses his wife in a mysterious car crash, he is overwhelmed with grief but also an eerie sense of purpose; he becomes obsessed with the idea that he must reincarnate his dead wife. Her donated kidney is transplanted into a young girl with a debilitating disorder, but the doctor also feels compelled to keep a small sample of her liver in his laboratory. When these cells start mutating rapidly, a consciousness bent on determining its own fate awakens from an eonic sleep.

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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

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Gerald's Game / Stephen King

Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband dies. But the nightmare has just begun...

[source]

Marina / Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Oscar Drai's story begins in an old quarter of the city, where he meets the strange Marina and her father, Germán Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly 10:00am, a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman, her face shrouded by a black velvet cloak. Holding a single rose, she walks to a gravestone that bears no name, only a mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.

When Oscar & Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey to a postwar Barcelona-a world of aristocrats and actresses-and reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

[source]

Carrie / Stephen King

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction...

[source]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert L. Stevenson

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde.

[source]

Thank you + October's Book!

Hi Bookender buddies!

Thanks so much for those of you who came out tonight. If you didn't, not to worry! We introduced ourselves and talked about some ideas for our books this year. The following is a list of themes we generated:

• horror/thriller
• book to movie adaptation
• contemporary
• satire
• historical fiction
• choose your own adventure
• Canadian literature
• short stories
• uplifting books (to finish off the year)

If you don't see anything you like on this list, let me know and we can vote on it in the coming months! This month's theme, however, is Horror/Thriller.

Check out the nominations and vote for your favourite! The poll also includes a few questions about our social events this semester. Here is the link to the Doodle for scheduling our October meeting.

Looking forward to seeing all of you there!

Best,

Taneeta

September 2016 Meeting

Hey Bookenders!

Thanks so much for your patience this past week. I've finally pinned down the time and place for our meeting, and I'm happy to announce that there will be food! It'll be some snacks and drinks, but still - FOOD!

Meeting Details:

Date Friday September 30, 2016

Time 5:30-6:30 (approx.)

Place Alumni Hall, rm. 105 (So sorry about that. It's the nicest place I could find that allows non-catered food!)

If you're looking for Alumni Hall, it's right beside Kelly Library, and it's a five-minute walk from Museum subway station. You don't need to bring anything except yourselves.

Hope to see all of you there!

Sincerely,

Taneeta Doma
Director, Bookends