Last Thursday Book Club: Schedule for the Year 2020

Last Thursday Book Club

2020 Schedule

2020: now we have the vision: 100 years ago, in 1920, men's book clubs began. No choice: Prohibition had begun plus women got the vote.
Main Street quote

100 years ago: Sinclair Lewis published Main Street. Can we read that today? Look here.

Meeting Date	Host	Selection	Notes
Thursday 30 January 2020	Dick Jensen 7120 Hawthorn Ave NE From Tramway, go West on Paseo, then North on Wyoming. You'll do fine..		I selected for January immediately after reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. It's the story of a librarian who travels by mule to take books to people in the backwoods of Kentucky in the 1930s. It's an extremely powerful book. There are 5 copies in the library and paperback books are readily available.
Lunch prior to Meeting 11:30 am at The Placitas Cafe 221 Hiway 165 Menu Thursday 27 February 2020	Jack Ferrell Meeting at 1 pm 17 Sunset Blvd Placitas, NM I-25 Exit 242 East on NM 165 Right at the 5-mile marker onto Tunnel Springs Road. Right onto Quail Meadow Road (first street on right - 0.2 mile) Right onto Leah Lane (first street on right-0.4 mile) HARD right onto Sunset Blvd (100 yards) 17 Sunset Blvd is the third house on the left.		To bring a little light to a dark schedule, I have chosen a dark work of fiction by Ian McGuire
our first Fake Virtual Meeting [results are here] Thursday March 2020	Bob Woods Academy at Tramway 11921 Caribou Ave., NE (299-6928) From Academy and Tramway, go WEST on Academy for 3 blocks, then take a RIGHT (North) onto Antelope Run which deadends into Caribou. House is in front of you, a little to the left.		A classic 1933 novel, turned into a classic 1937 movie by Frank Capra. The origin of Shangra-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet. Currently $0.99 cents for Kindle download! Shangra-La, Baby! The entire book can also be read on-line (yes, for free!) at this archive.org link. Plenty of used copies on-line; only one 'real' copy in the ABC Library system, but several e-books, plus an audio book or two.
Thursday 11 am on Zoom 30 April 2020 [see email from host]	Ron Bousek (262-0207) 701 Loma Linda Pl SE Lead/Coal; between Carlisle and Washington, take Montclaire south		Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 16 copies in library, but they are mostly all out in February. Lots of used copies for about 9 bucks on Amazon. Order now! Kindle version for $14.
Note: this will be an 11 am Zoom Meeting on Thursday 28 May 2020 Jack Ferrell will handle the Zoom; Dick J. will host.	Dick Jensen 7120 Hawthorn Ave NE From Tramway, go West on Paseo, then North on Wyoming. Better yet, just find a WiFi location. You'll be fine.		Butcher's Crossing by John Williams--it's a superb book built on the theme of buffalo hunting in the Old West. Williams was a professor at the University of Missouri. He wrote three superb books--and a fourth that he disowned. The book is on Kindle and used copies are easily found. There is not a copy in the library so I will buy an extra copy and give it to Keith.
Note: this will be a 2 pm Zoom Meeting on Thursday 25 June 2020	Ken Gillen (797-8956) 331 White Oaks Dr. NE (From Tramway and Live Oak Rd [one block N. of Paseo del Norte], go EAST 0.6 mi on Live Oak, then SOUTH 0.3 mi on White Oaks Dr. to last house on right. Intersection of WhiteOaks and Paintbrush. Pay no attention to most of the house numbers.)		My choice for June is "The Spy and the Traitor, The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War" by Ben Macintyre. There are at least 3 copies available at the Library and I think Libraries open in the next day or so. There are many used copies available on line from Amazon, etc.
Note: this will be a Zoom Meeting on Thursday, 30 July 2020 2 pm MDT	Rob Easterling (505-379-9683) 115 N. Capital St. Guthrie, OK 73044 (Directions: From Albuquerque, take I-40 East approx. 550 miles to the intersection with I-35 in Oklahoma City. Drive North on I-35 to the Guthrie exit to OK Hwy 33. Drive West on 33 to the intersection with Capital (sometimes spelled Capitol) St. Turn left to the above address.) rgeasterling42[at]gmail.com
Note: this will be a Zoom Meeting on Thursday 27 August 2020 2 pm MDT	Charlie Palmer (cell: 263-4586) 1506 Park Ave SW From I-25, go West on Central or Lomas; then South on 14th St. Cross Central, continue 2 or 3 blocks, then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign).
Social Distancing Meeting 2 pm 24 September 2020	Keith Gilbert (250-0991) Meeting to be held at New Mexico War Memorial (Louisiana & Gibson SE)		No copies in the ABC Library System;' however you can check out a copy for one hour at a time at archive.org https://archive.org/details/dimaggiolastamer00durs/
This will now be a Zoom meeting, still held at: 1 pm Thursday 29 October 2020	Bob Simon 1415 Park Ave SW (246-8136) From I-40, go South on Rio Grande Blvd, then left (East) on Central; then South on 14th St. Continue 2 or 3 blocks, then turn RIGHT onto Park (first stop sign) Alternatively, one might chose to turn on 15th St. at the bank building and go two blocks on the left side or three blocks on the right side to the corner of Park. My house will be on the corner on your left.
This will now be a Zoom meeting, held at: 2 pm 19 November 2020 [Thursday BEFORE Thanksgiving]	Mike Blackledge (294-6030) 14321 Stalgren Ct NE (from Tramway & Copper, go East 5 blocks [counting on right], then right on Parkside, immediate left onto Stalgren Ct.)
This will be a Zoom meeting on: Thursday 17 December 2020 2 pm Discussion	Karl Irons 50 Canyon Ridge Dr. Sandia Park, NM 970-946-5672