Wednesday, May 21, 2008
New Reader's Garden Planning Commitee
Congrats and thanks SO much to Leeorie Alter, Nuna Nishi, Franja Russell,Deane Oldrich, Hollyjean Allen, and Georgette Whitfield for being on our Reader's Garden Planning Committee! If there are others interested, it is not too late, please just IM me :). Our first meeting is tomorrow, Thursday, May 22nd at 6:00 SLT - this puts some folks unable to attend I know, but we'll take notes and get your ideas later.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Reader's Garden Poetry Reading
Many thanks to the people that came to hear Poet Keith Ainsworth (in world as Threik Wilkinson) Sunday in the Reader's Garden. If you missed this event and wish to hear Keith (he IS really funny and affable and I'd listen to him anytime in a nano second), here are his scheduled events:
May 1, 3PM SLT-- Faeria
May 2, 3PM, -- Library of laputa
May 9, 3PM SLT,--UK Writer's Guild, Milkwood
Saturday, April 26, 2008
SL Book Fair Events April 26th & 27th
Greetings,
Please don't miss poet and environmentalist Keith Ainsworth reading from his newest book of poetry, The Courage of Intimacy, in the Reader's Garden, Sunday April 27th at 11:00 SLT. Hope to see you there!
Best,
Sonja
Here are other events happening:
SL Book Fair 200825-27 April Book Island and Publishing Island
EVENT AREAS: (stage sponsored by SLGuides, Virtual Learning Centre) (stage sponsored by Rez Magazine) (area sponsored by Third Life Books) (stage sponsored by sl-newspaper.com)
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Saturday 26th
6am discussion: Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am tbc8am Nebbisk Oh - 'Fictionary' game where you make up definitions to fool your opponents. (Beach Area)9am Madddyyy Schnook - Marketing and Sales in virtual worlds (Book Island stage)10am Babu Writer - Amazon and POD - what's going on? (Publishing Island stage)10am Selina Greene - the RL Book publishing process - talk and Q&A (Book Island stage)11am Cricket Gears - How Art and Music Can Change the World (Cartland Court stage)12pm Trinity Dechou, Voodoo Buwan - Rez Magazine debate on inworld Publishing (Cartland Court stage)1pm Noble Charron - Characterization - the Soul of the Story - Lecture and Q&A by bestselling author, Michael A Stackpole (Beach Area)2pm Elan Neruda - Paying the Bills While Paying Your Dues: a partially practical guide to writing genre fiction for a living (Publishing Island stage)2pm-4pm Miriam Antonelli DJ (Cartland Court)3pm Madddyyy Schnook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)4pm Diana Allandale - Promoting Yourself, from and Author's POV, workshop with author Diana Hunter (Beach Area)5pm Wilbur Rich - reading
Sunday 27th
6am discussion: What's SLove got to do with it? RL/SL relationship pleasures and pitfalls. Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am DJ Doubledown Tandino spins his signature blend of nujazz and house in a live turntable mix (Cartland Court)8am discussion - What makes a book a cult book, rather than just a good book? Selina Greene (Beach Area)9am Jilly Kidd hosts readings from writers in the Written Word group (beach area)10am Sean Voss - Author Sean Percival, The Second Life In-World Travel Guide talk, Q&A (Book Island stage) 10am Madddyyy Schbook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)11am Simeon Beresford - Literary quiz (Book Island stage)12pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)1pm Kitumscheid Writer - the publishing process for illustrated books, based on experiences from her book, Pirate's Alphabet (Publishing Island stage)1pm-3pm - DJ Ravishal Bentham from Kona Radio (Cartland Court)3pm - Diana Allandale - The Ins and Outs of Writing Erotica workshop with author, Diana Hunter (Beach Area)4pm Arton Tripsa - The Writing Life: The Creation Of A Novel, a talk/Q&A with Jane Watson, author of the Hindustan Contessa (Book Island stage)5pm Closing ceremony and afterparty (Cartland Court)
Please don't miss poet and environmentalist Keith Ainsworth reading from his newest book of poetry, The Courage of Intimacy, in the Reader's Garden, Sunday April 27th at 11:00 SLT. Hope to see you there!
Best,
Sonja
Here are other events happening:
SL Book Fair 200825-27 April Book Island and Publishing Island
EVENT AREAS: (stage sponsored by SLGuides, Virtual Learning Centre) (stage sponsored by Rez Magazine) (area sponsored by Third Life Books) (stage sponsored by sl-newspaper.com)
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Saturday 26th
6am discussion: Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am tbc8am Nebbisk Oh - 'Fictionary' game where you make up definitions to fool your opponents. (Beach Area)9am Madddyyy Schnook - Marketing and Sales in virtual worlds (Book Island stage)10am Babu Writer - Amazon and POD - what's going on? (Publishing Island stage)10am Selina Greene - the RL Book publishing process - talk and Q&A (Book Island stage)11am Cricket Gears - How Art and Music Can Change the World (Cartland Court stage)12pm Trinity Dechou, Voodoo Buwan - Rez Magazine debate on inworld Publishing (Cartland Court stage)1pm Noble Charron - Characterization - the Soul of the Story - Lecture and Q&A by bestselling author, Michael A Stackpole (Beach Area)2pm Elan Neruda - Paying the Bills While Paying Your Dues: a partially practical guide to writing genre fiction for a living (Publishing Island stage)2pm-4pm Miriam Antonelli DJ (Cartland Court)3pm Madddyyy Schnook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)4pm Diana Allandale - Promoting Yourself, from and Author's POV, workshop with author Diana Hunter (Beach Area)5pm Wilbur Rich - reading
Sunday 27th
6am discussion: What's SLove got to do with it? RL/SL relationship pleasures and pitfalls. Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am DJ Doubledown Tandino spins his signature blend of nujazz and house in a live turntable mix (Cartland Court)8am discussion - What makes a book a cult book, rather than just a good book? Selina Greene (Beach Area)9am Jilly Kidd hosts readings from writers in the Written Word group (beach area)10am Sean Voss - Author Sean Percival, The Second Life In-World Travel Guide talk, Q&A (Book Island stage) 10am Madddyyy Schbook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)11am Simeon Beresford - Literary quiz (Book Island stage)12pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)1pm Kitumscheid Writer - the publishing process for illustrated books, based on experiences from her book, Pirate's Alphabet (Publishing Island stage)1pm-3pm - DJ Ravishal Bentham from Kona Radio (Cartland Court)3pm - Diana Allandale - The Ins and Outs of Writing Erotica workshop with author, Diana Hunter (Beach Area)4pm Arton Tripsa - The Writing Life: The Creation Of A Novel, a talk/Q&A with Jane Watson, author of the Hindustan Contessa (Book Island stage)5pm Closing ceremony and afterparty (Cartland Court)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Events for Reader's Garden & Traffic
Greetings,
Some events to keep in mind for the Reader's Garden and for Bookish Folk everywhere :).
The Second Life Book Fair 08 on Book and Publishing Islands on the 25th through the 27th. Don't miss this terrific event. For information, please IM Arton Tripsa.
In the Reader's Garden, April 27th at 11:00 a.m. SLT meet author Keith Ainsworth (aka Threik Wilkinson in SL), poet of The Courage of Intimacy.
In the past four weeks, our visitor counter recorded 228 avatars visiting the Reader's Garden.
Please IM me with any questions or if you'd like to use the Reader's Garden for your own event.
Best,
Sonja
Some events to keep in mind for the Reader's Garden and for Bookish Folk everywhere :).
The Second Life Book Fair 08 on Book and Publishing Islands on the 25th through the 27th. Don't miss this terrific event. For information, please IM Arton Tripsa.
In the Reader's Garden, April 27th at 11:00 a.m. SLT meet author Keith Ainsworth (aka Threik Wilkinson in SL), poet of The Courage of Intimacy.
In the past four weeks, our visitor counter recorded 228 avatars visiting the Reader's Garden.
Please IM me with any questions or if you'd like to use the Reader's Garden for your own event.
Best,
Sonja
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Reader's Garden Enhancing the Already Lovely
Oh my. I'm in love with the Reader's Garden on Info Island. The energy, the elegance, the location - all a fortelling of great potential and to walk it is a joy. It is my fervent hope that members will log on and visit and help to greet passerbyes, leave ideas for improvement, and offer sweet murmurings of support :).
Some terrific additions - tai chi balls (which I witnessed being used yesterday and curled my toes in joy), a fountain, some pillows with interesting sit poses, and some scripts to dispense notecards and URLs. There is an unobstrusive visitor counter too (23 people visited in the past two days). I'm hoping to get some library students to act as welcomers and to offer group membership to folks.
I'm just as overjoyed to tell you that Carrie Pennell is helping in this effort and is working on some landscaping at the moment. If you see her, please thank her.
Please stop by - I think you'll find the space interactive and peaceful.
Warmth,
Sonja
Some terrific additions - tai chi balls (which I witnessed being used yesterday and curled my toes in joy), a fountain, some pillows with interesting sit poses, and some scripts to dispense notecards and URLs. There is an unobstrusive visitor counter too (23 people visited in the past two days). I'm hoping to get some library students to act as welcomers and to offer group membership to folks.
I'm just as overjoyed to tell you that Carrie Pennell is helping in this effort and is working on some landscaping at the moment. If you see her, please thank her.
Please stop by - I think you'll find the space interactive and peaceful.
Warmth,
Sonja
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Welcome our new Reader's Garden Host!
I am happy to announce that Sonja Morgwain will be assuming the responsibilities of the Reader's Garden, and the Book Discussion Circle. Please be patient as we make this transition. So far things have gone smoothly, so keep your fingers crossed.
Alphonsus Peck and I have enjoyed creating the Reader's Garden, and facilitating the activities held there. Due to RL issues, it is no longer possible for us to devote the time to it that it deserves.
You will find Sonja to be enthusiastic and friendly! I am looking forward to her programming and projects.
Best wishes to you all. You may see me float through giving the occasional book talk!
Princess Ivory
Alphonsus Peck and I have enjoyed creating the Reader's Garden, and facilitating the activities held there. Due to RL issues, it is no longer possible for us to devote the time to it that it deserves.
You will find Sonja to be enthusiastic and friendly! I am looking forward to her programming and projects.
Best wishes to you all. You may see me float through giving the occasional book talk!
Princess Ivory
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Our New Home is Official
We have completely vacated our former home in Cybrary City II, and are now located on Info Island. We are still rebuilding sections of the Garden, but the patio is available for book discussions and other literary events.
Please come visit us in our new home!
Please come visit us in our new home!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Book Discussion Scheduled for Friday September 14, 2007
Melissa Perreault will host a book discussion on A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseini. The discussion will take place on Friday, September 14th at 5pm SLT, in the Reader's Garden. We hope that you will be able to join Melissa and the members of her Virtual Book Group for the discussion.
Contact Princess Ivory or Melissa Perreault for more information.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny—"There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten"—is endorsed by custom and law. Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters. (May)
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Contact Princess Ivory or Melissa Perreault for more information.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny—"There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten"—is endorsed by custom and law. Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters. (May)
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