Book Club by Diana_UA https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub The Mad Rook Book Club Discussions en-us 2017-06-25 11:47:38 UTC 2023-08-26 18:04:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/167511531/2e343a8f403fc0308fa031f20f33ed1c/stack_of_books.jpg June 30.2017 diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/177369262
Short Story: "Veldt"
Author: Ray Bradbury
Main Character(s): 
  • George Hadley and his wife Lydia; 
  • their children Wendy and Peter
  • David McClean - psychologist

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Short Story:"The Princess and the Puma"
Author: O.Henry
Main Character(s):
  • Josefa O'Donnel
  • Ripley Givens
  • "Whispering Ben." 

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  • Describe the "royal couple".
  • Describe the 
  • What does the title "cattle king" imply?
  • Describe Josefa O'Donnel?
  • Describe Ripley Givens.
  • How did Ripley Givens feel right after the incident?
  • What was Josefa's reaction when she found out she killed Ripley's pet?
    • ]]>     2017-08-11 15:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180744442     LeeWright https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180749654 2017-08-11 16:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180749654 Short Story "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802096 To download the text document, click on this post (it will expand) and download it to your computer.]]> 2017-08-12 13:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802096 August 18. 2017 diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802298 Book Club Meeting
    Short Story: "The Yellow Wall Paper"
    Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Main Character(s):
    • Narrator (wife) - no name given
    • John - narrators husband;
    • Jennie - John's sister;
    • Mary - the woman who takes care of the baby;
    Themes:
    • freedom
    • gender
    • writing/literature
    • mental illness
    ]]>     2017-08-12 13:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802298     Questions, notes, comments: diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802859 - What do you know about the author?
    - Describe the main characters of the story;


    ]]>     2017-08-12 13:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/180802859     zoom chat diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181724554 2017-08-19 14:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181724554 August 25. 2017 diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181731962 Short Story: "The Most Dangerous Game"
    Author:  Richard Connell
    Main Characters:
    • Sanger Rainsford
    • General Zaroff
    • Ivan
    • Whitney
    Themes:
    • Violence
    • Competition
    • Fear
    • ...

    ]]>     2017-08-19 18:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181731962     "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181748337 To download the story, just click on the attachment here (it will expand) and download it to your computer.]]> 2017-08-20 07:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181748337 Notes, questions, comments: diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181748439 (you can write your comments, questions here or doubleclick anywhere and write your own note)]]> 2017-08-20 07:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/181748439 September the 1st. Story: "Time in Advance" diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/183060845 Author: William Tenn
    Characters:
    • Nicholas Crandall
    •  Otto Henck
    • Frederick Stoddard Stephanson
    • Polly
    • Elsa 
    • Irv
    • Daniel
    ]]>     2017-08-28 08:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/183060845     "Time in Advance" - text document diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/183061093 to download the story, click on the attachment below (the post will expand) and download the document to your computer.]]> 2017-08-28 08:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/183061093 Time in Advance (T.Lee's Summary) LeeWright https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/184220424 This story takes place in a future time when one can serve time in prison in advance for a murder that they intend to commit when they finish their sentence, thus giving them a "license to kill one person without further punishment".  The "time in advance" is served at a 50% discount from the actual sentence time that the crime would normally incur. People who serve this time in advance are called "pre-criminals". The catch to enjoying this 50% discount is that, while in prison, one has to do hard but necessary labor in many dangerous off-world environments where most prisoners end up either dead or maimed for life.  Thus, one's odds at surviving this time served in advance are slim indeed. This story is about two such pre-criminals who have just returned to Earth from serving their seven-year, off-world sentences in advance.

    The two pre-criminals in question are Nick Crandall and Otto Henck. Nick served his time in prison so he could kill his ex-employer, Stephanson, who had stolen an invention from him and gotten rich from it. Otto served his time in prison so he could kill his ex-wife Elsa, who had treated him extremely badly for many years. After being released from prison and returning to Earth, Nick and Otto went their separate ways to do their foul deeds.

    Nick checked into a posh hotel and was soon visited by his ex-wife Polly.  She thought he had served his sentence so he could kill her in revenge, so she preemptively confessed about cheating on him several times during their marriage and begged forgiveness. He was shocked by this revelation!

    Then his brother Dan visited him and was going to kill him with a blaster, but, fortunately for Nick, Dan couldn't bring himself to kill his own brother. Dan thought that Nick had served his sentence so he could kill Dan in revenge, so Dan preemptively confessed that he had been one of Polly's main lovers and begged forgiveness for cheating on him with his wife. Nick was shocked by this revelation as well.

    In addition to these mind-shattering revelations, at different times, two different strangers approached him and offered to pay him well to kill their enemies for them to better their own lives. Disgusted, Nick turned them down without a second thought.

    Finally, he called Stephanson, his main target of revenge, on a video phone.  By this time, Nick was so disappointed in his fellow man and so numbed by his own blind naivete that he told Stephanson that he had given up on his quest for vengeance and didn't want to kill him anymore.  Stephanson was somewhat shocked... and then relieved to the  point that he voluntarily offered to give Nick a percentage of the company's profits to reimburse him for the way he has cheated Nick out of his fame and riches.  So his friends turned out to be his enemies, and his enemy turned out to be his friend.

    To cap off (conclude) the denouement, Otto came to visit Nick in his hotel room at the end of the story and told him that his ex-wife and intended murder victim Elsa has died in a freak accident the month before. So he, Otto, had served seven years in prison for nothing. What cruel irony. The story ends with both men reflecting on the value of life and the sacrifices they've made to arrive at this point in their lives.]]>     2017-09-01 14:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/184220424     September the 9th. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/184343941 Story: "Mirror Image"
    Author: Isaac Asimov
    Characters:
    Themes:

    ]]>     2017-09-02 08:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/184343941     A Nautical Knot called the Monkey's Paw Knot LeeWright https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/190199377 2017-09-22 16:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/190199377 September 30th. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/191586544 Story: "To Room Nineteen"
    Author: Doris Lessing
    Characters:
    Themes:]]>     2017-09-27 09:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/191586544     "To Room Nineteen" diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/191587229 to download the story, click on the attachment below (the post will expand) and download the document to your computer.]]> 2017-09-27 10:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/191587229 October 7th. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/193601265 Story: "The Courter"
    Author:  Salman Rushdie
    Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9pto67whjvlxlfv/AAC2oozV3EcFcGvOqEWR1lVba?dl=0]]>     2017-10-03 18:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/193601265     October 21st. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/197946817 Story: " Interpreter of Maladies"
    Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
    to download the story, click on the attachment below (the post will expand) and download the document to your computer.

    ]]>     2017-10-17 17:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/197946817     October 28th. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/201420393 Story: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
    Author:  James Thurber. 
    ]]>     2017-10-28 15:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/201420393     November 4th. diana0377 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/203079831 Story: A Sound of Thunder
    Author: Ray Bradbury
    ]]>     2017-11-02 18:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/203079831     Chapter 1: Being International epalathra https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/2501197331 2023-03-02 14:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/2501197331 Hi cashton71 https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/2673829653 This is my first time on hear]]> 2023-08-26 18:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/diana0377/bookclub/wish/2673829653