Hanukkah & Letter to Santa by Twain readings

Please join us for two events, December 11th is the beginning of hanukkah at sundown, at 5 pm SLT we'll light a candle and read a traditional hanakkah poem or story.

Our next event is a reading of famous (and some funny) letters to Santa on Dec 20th at 11am SLT. Bring your kid's letters, famous letters to share! Twain is first on the list.

http://www.allthingschristmas.com/stories/LetterFromSanta.html

Second Life Book Events Oct 20-26

BOOK EVENTS In Second Life-- OCTOBER 20-26 See notecard in Reader's Garden for locations and full list or IM Sonja Morgwain (Note Nov 22nd at 11am is our next Book Talk) and I'll pass you a notecard! Reader's Garden: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/25 Or see our blog: http://readersgardensl.blogspot.com/ Autumn Writers Exhibit - ongoing through the month of October Guerilla Ghost Stories -------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 20 *11:00 a.m. - Poets' Meet * Noon - Authors Cassandra Curtis and Cora Zane for readings from their books * 2:00 p.m. - Slice of Pie Poetry * 3:00 p.m. - Aianna Oh reads "Water Witch" * 3:00 p.m. - Reading at O'Casey's: Beautiful Stories for Evil Children: The works of Edgar Allan Poe part II * 5:00 p.m. - More Poe Stories! * 5:00 p.m. - Short Poetry Workshop * 6:00 p.m. Mike Stackpole's Office Hours/Writer Discussion * 7:00 p.m. - Aoife Lorefield with Kelly Link's "Travels with the Snow Queen" * 7:00 p.m. - Short Poetry Workshop -------------------------------------------- Wednesday, October 21 * 2:00 p.m. - Open Mic Poetry, Prose and Critique * 4:00 p.m. - 'A Wizard of Earthsea' by Ursula K Leguin read by Elegia Underwood * 6:00 p.m. - Poetry at Cafe de Muse * 7:00 p.m. - Elder Priestman & Derry McMahon with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow -------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 22 * Noon- Author Cassandra Curtis for readings from her latest book, Shifting Tides * 1:00 p.m. - Open Mic at the Village Theatre * 2:00 p.m. - Poetry: A Celebration of Life (Open Mic) * 4:00 p.m. - Poetry on the Half Shell * 6:00 p.m. - Inksters Open Mic Poetry * 7:00 p.m. - Emerain Rich reads Night's Knights * 7:00 p.m. - Shandon Loring with great Faerie stories and other fabulous tales -------------------------------------------- Friday, October 23 * 1:00 p.m. - Milk Wood Writers' Meet * 2:00 p.m. - Huckleberry Hax with NaNoWriMo Tips * 3:00 p.m. - Short Story Reading Group: Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" * 3:00 p.m. - Reading at O'Casey's: Lucis Haiku reads Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones * 7:00 p.m. - Haiku Workshop -------------------------------------------- Saturday, October 24 * 6:00 a.m. - The Poets' Plunder * 8:00/10:00 a.m. (times alternate each week) - Poetry Editing Workshop * Noon - Bookstacks Paper Chase * 2:00 p.m. - Science Fiction Saturday * 4:00 p.m. - NaNoWriMo Sprint with NYT Bestselling author, Mike Stackpole * 4:00 p.m. - Author Cassandra Curtis and special guest, author Karen Duvall for readings from their books -------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 25 * 8:00 a.m. - Poetry, A Celebration of Reading (Open Mic) * 11:00 a.m. - Book Discussion: Heart of Stone by CE Murphy * 1:00 p.m. - POE! A Reading * 1:00 p.m. - Author Cassandra Curtis and special guest, author Karen Duvall for readings from their books * 3:00 p.m. - Poetry Libre Open Mic * 3:00 p.m. - Reading at O'Casey's: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk * 5:00 p.m. - Poetry Open Mic @ Blue Angel Poets' Dive * 6:00 p.m. - Caledonia Skytower in MagicLand with excerpts from Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book -------------------------------------------- Monday, October 26 * 1:00 p.m. - Milk Wood Writers' Meet * 1:00 p.m. - Open Mic Meanderings * 2:00 p.m. - Spanish Writers' Open Mic * 3:00 p.m. - The Sound of Poems * 4:00 p.m. - Story Session at the Falling Anvil - 4th Annual Ghost Story Night * 5:00 p.m. Writer's Symposium * 6:00 p.m. - Story Hour Open Mic * 7:00 p.m. - Bonfires & Broomsticks with Caledonia Skytower ------------------------------------------- Daily 8:00 a.m. - Writers' Dash -------------------------------------------- UPCOMING BOOK DISCUSSIONS * Nov. 1 - John Dies in the End by David Wont (Milk Wood Book Discussion) * Nov. 22 - The Second Jouney: The Road Back to Yourself (Wollestonecraft's Daughters) * Nov. 22 - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Reader's Garden Book Discussion) * Nov. 29 - Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint (Paranormal Book Discussion)

Next Book Talk in the Garden

Please join us for a discussion of or introduction to the book, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa on Sunday, November 22nd at 11 a.m. SLT (PST) in the Reader's Garden in Second Life on Cybrary City 1.

See review and links here: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/japannew/ogaway2.htm

or on BookBrowse http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/2217/The-Housekeeper-and-the-Professor

You need not have read this book to attend or participate!

For more information, please leave a comment here or email sonjamorgwain@yahoo.com

Hope to meet some new folks!

~Sonja

The Forgotten Garden Book Discussion

On October 11th at 10 am SLT (1pm EST), we'll be discussing Kate Morton's book, The Forgotten Garden in Second Life at our Reader's Garden in Cybrary City 1. The story spans several generations and the perpetuation of a family secret makes this story intriguing and mysterious. An element of fairy tales is woven in. As the secret of the garden unfolds, the reader comes to understand the importance of family, communication, and a sense of belonging. Here is a blurb about the book:

"On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace."

Please join us.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/25

Next BookFix Discussion!

Please join us on September 16th at 6pm SLT for a discussion of Steve Lopez's The Soloist! Read about friendship, homelessness, the redemptive power of music and mental illness combined in an unforgettable story. The author has a great website: http://stevelopezonline.com/ For more information about BookFix, please see the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library BookFix website at http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/westpage/bookfix.htm or IM librarian MusMuris Messmer.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/25

Next Book Discussion in the Reader's Garden!

Please join us for another BookFix discussion in the Reader's Garden on August 12th at 6pm SLT!

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New Book Discussion Group in the Reader's Garden!

Greetings,

Please join us for a new book discussion group called BookFix in the Reader's Garden on Cybrary City 1 beginning Wednesday, July 15 at 6pm SLT. BookFix is a monthly book discussion group facilitated by a librarian at the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. Librarian MusMuris Messmer will bring the book discussion online in the Reader's Garden every third Wednesday. To learn more about Bookfix, please see http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/westpage/bookfix.htm The July selection discussed will be The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.

To stay updated on events in the Reader's Garden, please IM Sonja Morgwain, see the Reader's Garden Blog at http://www.readersgardensl.blogspot.com

The Reader's Garden is located on Cybrary City 1 at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/24

Kind regards,

Sonja Morgwain

Coming Soon! Info on our May Author!

Author of Wired for War, PW Singer

Please join us in the Reader's Garden on March 22nd at 3pm SLt for a presentation, reading, and Q&A time with author PW Singer in the Reader's Garden.  Presentation will be in voice.  Please IM Sonja Morgwain with questions.  

Cybrary City 1, Reader's Garden

Author P.W. Singer Coming Soon to the Reader's Garden

Working out details, but author PW Singer is coming soon to the Reader's Garden on Cybrary City 1.  Meanwhile, the date and place for his next appearance is shown below.  More information coming soon. 

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P W Singer

Feb 13, 1:30 pm PST 

Space Studies Institute 130, 130, 30

DESCRIPTION

What happens when science fiction becomes battlefield reality?

An amazing revolution is taking place on the battlefield, starting to change not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. This upheaval is already afoot -- remote-controlled drones take out terrorists in Afghanistan, while the number of unmanned systems on the ground in Iraq has gone from zero to 12,000 over the last five years.  But it is only the start. Military officers quietly acknowledge that new prototypes will soon make human fighter pilots obsolete, while the Pentagon researches tiny robots the size of flies to carry out reconnaissance work now handled by elite Special Forces troops.

Wired for War takes the reader on a journey to meet all the various players in this strange new world of war: odd-ball roboticists working in latter-day “skunk works” in the midst of suburbia; military pilots flying combat mission from their office cubicles outside Las Vegas; the Iraqi insurgents who are their targets; journalists trying to figure out just how to cover robots at war; and human rights activists wrestling with what is right and wrong in a world where our wars are increasingly being handed over to machines.  

Come meet the author and engage in a dialog about this topic.

SLURL to event: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Space%20Studies%20Institute/130/130/30

Book Website: http://wiredforwar.pwsinger.com/

Nerding Up the Nursery: How to Prepare Your New Little Geek's Room

I found this fascinating quote today:

I think I need a vacation just to catch up on my reading.  What books have you shelved that you wish you were reading?Nerding Up the Nursery: How to Prepare Your New Little Geek's Room, Jan 2009

You should read the whole article.

"All Things Coehlo"

From Paulo Coelho's book, Eleven Minutes:

"The roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it." ~Coelho.

Join us for more, Wed., Jan. 21st at 2pm slt.

The Garden is decked out with posters, information, and Youtube video of an interview with this marvelous author. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/124/157/24

~sonja

Paulo Coelho Month of January 2009

Greetings and Happy New Year. For January in the Garden, we celebrate the writings of Paulo Coelho. Perhaps best know for the Alchemist, we explore his works and life on Wednesday, January 14th at 6pm SLT. Please join us for a reading of selected quotations, a discussion of Coelho's works, and information about his life as a theatre director, lyricist, journalist, and writer. One of the most influential writers of our time. IM Sonja Morgwain in world or email pimelibrarian@gmail.com