We had another new member join us this month, Lisa, from Garden City. She moved to the area from the Denver region due to housing costs and is currently volunteering with Respect MO Voters and Smart Elections to keep democracy afloat. We also saw Shayne again after...
Beth, Linda, Jim, Michael, and Peggy joined us for some pleasant conversation this month. Christina had some Zoom problems, so couldn’t join us, but did provide a list of the books she has been reading. I also heard from Tamara, who we haven’t seen in a while....
Just the core group this time around. We did miss Beth, however, as she was out with her extended family tracking and hunting down an unsuspecting Christmas tree. She did provide her list of reading though, so that’s a good thing. I just hope the tree didn’t...
Yet another new reader joined us this month, Ron from Republic, MO. While we were waiting for others to join us, he let me know because of his poor eyesight he mainly reads with audio books. Unfortunately he had to leave early before we had a chance to hear what...
Another new reader joined us this month, Shayne from Kansas City! Interesting life story — he was trained in PsyOps [Psychological Operations] at Ft. Bragg (KY) and has spent considerable time overseas. He’s also had a separate career in IT, also working for...
Another good turnout for the September Book Lovers SIG matching last month’s attendance. Always exciting when someone new joins us; this month it was Robert from Omaha! Robert is a retired Industrial Engineer. He was born in Austria (I think) where his father...
Big crowd for the August Book Lovers SIG, the largest group we have had in a while. While we were waiting for everyone to join in, we started talking about movies. Movie Lovers SIG, anyone? Cynthia recommended a film she recently watched on Netflix, Godzilla Minus...
Eight members were online for the July Book Lovers SIG -- so lots of books got discussed. Heidi from Wisconsin joined us for the first time! Great to have a new person join us with a completely different list of books she enjoyed reading. Plus, Jim joined us after a...
We had a nice group in June.  Seven people talked about the books they’ve been reading, including Linda, who returned from her European vacation. Regulars joining in included Michael, Beth, Peggy and Christina. Tim, who hasn’t been doing much reading,...
We had six people join us online (Brad, Beth, Cynthia, Christine, Michael, and Peggy) and book lists from most of us; so that’s 27 books for this month. The standard theme in the pre-book and post-book discussion was the problems associated with volunteer...
