Bookish Activities - Feb. 1-Feb. 10

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Date/Time: February 2, Noon
Event: Book Trivia Quiz
Location: Bookstacks (slurl)
Description: Australian Literature is the topic. Join in a game of book trivia, test your knowledge of the subject, and have a good time with other bookish people. Prize to the first place winner.

Date/Time: February 2; 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Event: Caledon Library Exhibit Opening & Conversation with the Curator: Notes of Love
Location: Whitehorn Library, VictoriaCity (slurl)
Description: Notes of Love: Romance in the Victorian age
Curated by Mica Braun

Date/Time: February 3; 11:00 a.m.
Event: Sunday Book Discussion
Location: Pemberley Clubhouse
Description: Reader's Block
Do you reach the point where you can't read another word? The back of the cereal box is a challenge? What brings on reader's block and how do you get past it?

Join for a weekly general book discussion. Meeting locations change each week to give participants an opportunity to see more of the wonderful environments of Second Life.

Date/Time: February 3; 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Event: Story hour with Gilbert Sapwood
Location: Whitehorn Library, VictoriaCity (slurl)

Date/Time: February 4; 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Event: Story Session at the Falling Anvil  - Gotcha! Trickster Tales
Location: The Falling Anvil, Caledon Tamrannoch
Description: Sponsored by the Caledon Library, the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, and the Storytelling Guild
"Gotcha! Tricksters, Con artists, and Tales of FlimFlam"--most cultural traditions  have a "trickster" figure like Coyote or Brer Rabbit--tell your story of someone having the wool pulled over their eyes.

Date/Time: February 7, 6:00 p.m.
Event: Beowulf vs. Grendel Book Discussion
Location: Info Island, Meeting Area (slurl)
Description: Join a group of readers to discuss the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf and John Gardner’s modern novel Grendel. Explore the continuing power of this medieval epic to touch our twenty-first century lives. Come to the meeting area between the Alliance Library and the Reference Desk on Info International.  Everyone welcome.

Date/Time: February 9, Noon
Event: Book Trivia Quiz
Location: Bookstacks (slurl)
Description: Topic to be announced

Date/Time: February 10; 11:00 a.m.
Event: Sunday Book Discussion
Location: TBA
Description: Topic to be announced
Join for a weekly general book discussion. Meeting locations change each week to give participants an opportunity to see more of the wonderful environments of Second Life.

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