[nfbmi-talk] Fw: October BTBL Computer/Book club

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From: Norris, Scott (LARA) 
To: BSBP Staff 
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:08 AM
Subject: October BTBL Computer/Book club


Good Morning All, 

 

Saturday, October 13 the BTBL Computer Club meets from 10:30-12:30.  This month's topic is Goodreads.  Goodreads is a social networking web site for readers and book recommendations.  Your presenter, Jessica Goodrich will provide a brief overview of Goodreads and demonstrate how it can be used to enhance the reading experience.  

The BTBL Computer Club meets in the BTBL public service area on the first floor of the Library of Michigan across from the elevators.  If you are unable to join us in Lansing see later in this message for information on how to log in to the BTBL Online Meeting Room.  

 

If you want to stay for the book club we order out lunch from one of the local sub shops.  

 

One hour after the BTBL Computer Club ends the BTBL Book Club meets from 1:30-3:00.  We meet in the BTBL public service area located on the first floor of the Library of Michigan across from the elevators.  

 

October's book club selection is BR18488 DB/RC68384 the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. 

In a future North America, Panem's rulers maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting teens from twelve districts in a fight to the death. Sixteen-year-olds Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are this year's girl and boy contestants from District Twelve. Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.

 

Hunger Games Questions

  1.. Did you like the book?  Why or why not?
  2.. Who was your favorite character?  Why?
  3.. Did your perception of Peeta change over the course of the book?  How and why?
  4.. How does the fact that the tributes are always on camera affect their behavior from the time they are chosen?  Does it make it easier or harder for them to accept their fate?
  5.. Why do Katniss and Rue become partners?  What does Katniss gain from the friendship?  How does this partnership differ from the other groups?
  6.. Why does Katniss ignore Haymitch's advice to head directly away from the Cornucopia? Did she do the right thing to fight for equipment? What are the most important skills she has for staying alive - her knowledge of nature? - her skill with bow and arrow? - her trapping ability? What qualities of her personality keep her going - her capacity for love? - her intelligence? - her self-control?
  7.. Why does Peeta join with the Career Tributes in the beginning of the Games? What does he hope to gain? Why do they accept him when they start hunting as a group? Why do groups form in the beginning when they know only one of them will be able to survive?
  8.. When does Katniss first realize that Peeta does care for her and is trying to keep her alive? When does she realize her own feelings for him? Did Haymitch think all along that he could keep them both alive by stressing the love story? Are they actually in love?
  9.. Did you expect the ending of the game? 
  10.. In 1848, Karl Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Discuss this statement as it applies to the society and government of Panem. Do you believe there is any chance to eradicate class struggles in the future?
  11.. How do you compare The Hunger Games to other cultures in history that have staged fights-to-the-death as entertainment?  How are they similar to popular culture today? Do you think something like The Hunger Games could happen?  
 

November's book is BR17613 DB/RC66059 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Australian book conservator Hanna Heath analyzes a Hebrew manuscript created in medieval Spain and saved from destruction in 1990s Sarajevo. Hanna's discoveries-an insect wing, salt crystals, and wine and blood stains--reveal the codex's past and the lives of its guardians. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Bestseller. 2008.

 

 

If you are unable to join us in Lansing you can join us in the BTBL Online Meeting Room. If you have a computer, speakers, microphone, (optional) and Internet access you can participate in the BTBL Computer/Book Club online. 

To access the BTBL Online Meeting Room use this link

http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs417aa6694fed

Users of the BTBL online room may enter any username they wish. To enter the room as a participant, please leave the password field blank. A software plug-in is required for full access to tcConference, the webconferencing software from a company called Talking Communities. The entry page to the BTBL Online Meeting Room contains helpful information about the plug-in. A no-plug-in-required web interface also is available for Mac, Linux, and MS users who cannot (or prefer not to) install the software plug-in. Please note, however, that not all tcConference features are available through the web interface. 

Access to the BTBL Online Meeting Room is provided through financial support from the Library of Michigan Foundation. 

If you have further questions contact Scott Norris at the information listed below between 7:30-5:00 Monday-Thursday and 7:30-11:30 Friday. 

 

See you at the computer and book club,

 

Scott

 

Scott J. Norris
Adaptive Technology Librarian
Braille and Talking Book Library
Bureau of Services to Blind Persons
Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
V: 517-373-5516
F: 517-373-5865
702 W Kalamazoo St
Lansing, MI 48915

www.michigan.gov/btbl