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SUMMARY:August Classic Book Club meeting
DESCRIPTION:South Orange County Women's Book Club\n\nThis is the meetup for
  the Classic Book Club\, an offshoot of the regular South Orange County Wom
 en's Book Club that meets monthly and reads only classics. Anyone is welcom
 e.  For August we will be reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin (by popular 
 demand from the poll).  The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier an
 d the changes that occur in her thinking and lifestyle as the result of a s
 ummer romance.  From Amazon review: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" is the cl
 assic novel about women that "Madame Bovary" purports to be but isn't. It's
  not just a "woman's" novel\, though\, it perfectly (and poetically) captur
 es the inner life of a solitary person who is forced to live for the sake o
 f others.  Please come prepared to discuss the book. You may come earlier t
 o order food and hang out\, but we will officially start at 7 pm. Some peop
 le always end up ordering food during the event\, but it is not required. \
 n\nMission Viejo\, CA  92691 - USA\n\nWednesday\, August 11 at 7:00 PM\n\nP
 hoto: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/c/8/b/event_12352363.j
 peg\n\nAttending: 15\n\nDetails: http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/13954076/
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DTSTART:20100812T020000Z
DTEND:20100812T040000Z
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LOCATION:Coco's Restaurant - 27750 Crown Valley Pkwy - Mission Viejo\, CA  
 92691 - USA
URL:http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/13954076/
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SUMMARY:SOCWBC August Read- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
DESCRIPTION:South Orange County Women's Book Club\n\nThe Best Seller select
 ed for our August read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold.  I read this b
 ook several years ago and really enjoyed it.  The topic is dark\, but I did
 n't think the book overall was dark.   I look forward to hearing what every
 one else thinks.    The Amazon.com Review:   On her way home from school on
  a snowy December day in 1973\, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") 
 is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped
  and murdered\, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as h
 er neighbor\, Mr. Harvey.  Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut 
 novel\, The Lovely Bones\, unfolds from heaven\, where "life is a perpetual
  yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving fami
 ly and friends\, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working
  on her case. As Sebold fashions it\, everyone has his or her own version o
 f heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban
  high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams\," where "there were no teac
 hers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did no
 t pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled\; our textbooks were Seventeen 
 and Glamour and Vogue."   The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting co
 ming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging
  to the lost world of the living\, following her family's dramas over the y
 ears like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in
  their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer\, her mother
  withdraws\, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new h
 ole in his family\, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milest
 one events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual
  shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Sus
 ie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beauti
 ful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times\, The Lovely Bones is a 
 moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in t
 he living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing chara
 cters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish\, and though things tend to wrap up
  a little too well for everyone in the end\, one can only imagine (or hope)
  that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thoma
 s Parsons   \n\nLake Forest\, CA  92630 - USA\n\nWednesday\, August 25 at 7
 :00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/c/8/b/event
 _12352363.jpeg\n\nAttending: 8\n\nDetails: http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/1
 3974848/
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DTSTART:20100826T020000Z
DTEND:20100826T040000Z
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LOCATION:Panera Bakery - 23592 Rockfield Blvd - Lake Forest\, CA  92630 - U
 SA
URL:http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/13974848/
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SUMMARY:SOCWBC September Read- The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:South Orange County Women's Book Club\n\nOur September read is 
 The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in th
 e Word by A. J. Jacobs.  It is a humorous memoir by a man who spent a year 
 reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.    For more details visit the a
 uthor's website:  ajjacobs.com\n\nLake Forest\, CA  92630 - USA\n\nWednesda
 y\, September 29 at 7:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photo
 s/event/c/c/8/b/event_12352363.jpeg\n\nAttending: 5\n\nDetails: http://www.
 socwbc.org/calendar/13974981/
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CREATED:20100701T200616Z
DTSTAMP:20100801T050634Z
DTSTART:20100930T020000Z
DTEND:20100930T040000Z
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LOCATION:Panera Bakery - 23592 Rockfield Blvd - Lake Forest\, CA  92630 - U
 SA
URL:http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/13974981/
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SUMMARY:"She Writes" Salon at the Montage in Laugna Beach
DESCRIPTION:South Orange County Women's Book Club\n\nWindflower Press hopes
  you'll mark October 9th on your calendar to attend an elegant salon for wo
 men writers and readers at the Montage in Laguna Beach! The salon will feat
 ure poets\, authors\, a champagne lunch\, art exhibit\, violinist\, a silen
 t auction\, and is guaranteed to please any woman who loves books\, network
 ing\, and getting in touch with their more creative selves.   Limited to 10
 0 attendants  Early Bird Registration is $65 by September 1st   For more de
 tails:    Windflower Press   \n\nLake Forest\, CA  92630 - USA\n\nSaturday\
 , October 9 at 10:30 AM\n\nPhoto: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/ev
 ent/c/c/8/b/event_12352363.jpeg\n\nAttending: 2\n\nDetails: http://www.socw
 bc.org/calendar/13974073/
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DTSTAMP:20100801T050634Z
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DTEND:20101009T193000Z
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URL:http://www.socwbc.org/calendar/13974073/
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SUMMARY:SOCWBC  October Read- The Shining by Stephen King
DESCRIPTION:South Orange County Women's Book Club\n\nFor October we stepped
  out of our comfort zone and will read Stephen King's The Shining.     Orig
 inally published in 1978\, "he Shining truly established King as a modern m
 aster of horror and an unequaled purveyor of a literary mirror into pop cul
 ture. If you've only seen the original movie starring Jack Nicholson\, you 
 really owe it to yourself to read the novel\; Stanley Kubrick made a fine a
 nd scary movie\, but he did not capture the essence of King's story\, and h
 is dramatization followed a different path than what you find in the origin
 al vision brought to life through the words of King." Amazon.com Reader Rev
 iew   It should be a thrill!  \n\nLake Forest\, CA  92630 - USA\n\nWednesda
 y\, October 27 at 7:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/
 event/c/c/8/b/event_12352363.jpeg\n\nAttending: 3\n\nDetails: http://www.so
 cwbc.org/calendar/13975152/
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DTSTART:20101028T020000Z
DTEND:20101028T040000Z
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LOCATION:Panera Bakery - 23592 Rockfield Blvd - Lake Forest\, CA  92630 - U
 SA
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