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Time: January 26, 2013 from 2:30pm to 4pm
Location: Sticks and Stones
Street: 9970 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22031
City/Town: FAIRFAX
Phone: 7033522343
Event Type: meetup
Organized By: Leah Ventura
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2013

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Book this month is American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

The storm was coming….Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.

On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue, Wednesday offers Shadow a job. And Shadow, a man with nothing to lose accepts.

But working for the enigmatic Wednesday is not without its price, and Shadow soon learns that his role in Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets, he embarks on a wild road trip and encounters, among others, the murderous Czernobog, the impish Mr. Nancy, and the beautiful Easter -- all of whom seem to know more about Shadow than he himself does.

Shadow will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his late wife, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined.

All around them a storm of epic proportions threatens to break. Soon Shadow and Wednesday will be swept up into a conflict as old as humanity itself. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought -- and the prize is the very soul of America.

As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, this work of literary magic will haunt the reader far beyond the final page.

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Comment by Connora on January 29, 2013 at 6:10pm: Leah, where did you get that really cool colored pencil set you brought with the Goddess Coloring Books?

Comment by Connora on January 29, 2013 at 3:53pm: I've scanned through Beautiful Creatures. What I saw makes me believe only very bad luck or complete idiots could make a failure out of a movie based on this book. The beginning just sucked me in like a big....sucking thing. It's good.

Comment by Connora on January 26, 2013 at 9:07pm: Beautiful Creatures next month, right?

Comment by Bobbi on January 26, 2013 at 6:40pm: Thanks so much for the Coloring book and the goodies. The discussion was great too! Looking forward to next month!

Comment by Connora on January 25, 2013 at 3:01pm: Leah wouldn't bring coloring books and not share them would she? (Say it ain't so, Joe!)*

*ref: a kid's cry to Shoeless Joe Jackson in big sports scandal early 20th century.

Comment by Chandra on January 25, 2013 at 2:10pm: Ermagherd! Coloring books! I <3 coloring books! I think you should share. Isn't that why they made copy machine? ;-)

Comment by Connora on January 25, 2013 at 2:53am: I'll look for my colored pencil set.

Comment by Chandra on January 24, 2013 at 9:03pm: I'm ALMOST done. Really good book!

Comment by Connora on January 24, 2013 at 8:08pm: Looking forward to Saturday! This book is full of good stuff.

Comment by Bobbi on January 14, 2013 at 12:59am: This book was very thought provoking... can't wait to discuss it!
Following is the poem that came to me after finishing the book.

Decay

Old gods and goddess live on
tattered remnants of their powerful selves
In a world gone mad
on energy
for energy
of energy
by energy
dissipating into chaos.

Stillness is lost.

With inner-sight bearing witness to
otherworld beings growing dimmer
Energy roars out of control
Draining the life blood of Gaia
Burning the atmosphere
searing the land with carbon black scale
Of the monsters vanquished by the gods and goddesses
Whose tattered remains weep for the children
They have lost.

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