The Short Stories Book Club

A book club that meets on the third Sunday each month.

Next Meeting: March 16, 2025 #

Time Netherlands: 8pm, Detroit: 2pm, Chicago: 1pm, Pacific: 11am
Final encounter with The Penguin Book of Modern American Short Stories :

1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
2. Your choice: read any other story from the Penguin BoMASS and come prepared to share your recommendation/disrecommendation of it.

Voting for our FUTURE books #

We don't yet have books for April, May, June...

• Please suggest a few books.
  [ click here to suggest some books ]
  Maybe just put ~3 or so, to make the list easier to vote on later. The board will be editable, so you can delete and change until the deadline.

• Deadline to submit titles is March 16.

• When we gather on March 16 we can tell a little about the titles we submitted, to help folks decide which to vote for.

• Between March 16 and March 22 vote for some books. Starting March 16, if you go to where you submitted your titles, there will be thumbs up icons. Each person gets 12 thumbs-up votes that they can distribute in any way they wish, for example a single dot each to twelve books, or 6 + 6 dots given to two books, or lay all 12 dots on one book. (thumb = dot) 👍🏼
  Deadline to finish voting is March 22.

Future Meetings #

April #

Day Sunday, April 20, 2025
Time Netherlands: 8pm, Detroit: 2pm, Chicago: 1pm, Pacific: 11am
Reading: not yet chosen...

Call link for all meetings #

You don't need to install or sign in to anything. The link opens in any web browser. It is a free, opensource, encrypted platform called Brave Talk.

CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE CALL.

You can check your tech: click the above link now. It works on phone or desktop.

Deprecated List #

We will not view the following list. If you submitted book ideas here already, please resubmit, at the link above, in the listing for the March meeting.
Data Whimsy

Past Meetings #

December #

We discussed these, from the PBotMASS*

1. Raymond Carver: Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes
2. Lauren Groff: The Midnight Zone
   on December 26, 2024 at 3pm Eastern (noon Pacific, 9pm in Poland and Netherlands)

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story is available as an ebook or IRL. (It seems commmon: my local library has several copies.)

Details

• 496 pages
• Published May 4, 2021 by Penguin Press
• ISBN 9781984877802 (ISBN10: 1984877801)
• ASIN 1984877801
• John Freeman (Editor)

January #

We discussed

1. The Hermit's Story, by Rick Bass
2. The Last Thing We Need, by Claire Vaye Watkins

February #

We discussed
Readings:

1. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
2. The Fix by Percival Everett

Summary #

This is a club for friends and friends of friends. I encourage you to invite anyone who you think will enjoy it. To invite them, simply share the link to this page.

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