December 5, 2015

*** NOTICE: CHANGE OF VENUE ***

Please note that thanks to Lorraine we have been able to secure a more private venue at which to meet. It will quieter and more suitable for the Book Club.

We will be meeting this coming Wednesday evening at "The Royal Oak" on Laurier Avenue, near the University of Ottawa. The meeting room is downstairs.

Please come ready to advocate for and vote on your book selections for 2016.

See you there.

Robaire

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November 15, 2015

Dear TBC Members:

I am pleased to unveil the "Short List" of books nominated by you for our 2016 Reading List. My thanks to Lorraine & Josee for their tremendous assistance and support through this process.

There were a total of 57 books nominated. Some by more than one person. We short-listed down to 24. Each book that had more than one nomination made it onto the List. It wasn't easy. We each ended up cutting out books we individually would have liked to see on the List. So here they are.

A word about the coding below. You will see "fractions" listed at the end of each Period Heading, e.g. 2/4 or 1/3. That means, for example, looking at the "Early Antiquity & Classical Greek Period", you will see the code "2/4". This means that there are 4 books on the Short List for that Period, 2 of which will be selected for reading by secret ballot at the meetup. Similarly, for the "Renaissance & Early Modern Period": the code is "1/3" meaning that we will be selecting only one book from the 3 on the Short List for that Period, and so forth.

The Book Selection & Social meetup is scheduled for December 9. Between now and then we invite you to advocate for your favourites on this message board. Everyone whose name appears next to a short-listed selection will also get 2 minutes at the meetup to orally advocate for their selection, after which there will be a secret ballot vote.

Have fun. We look forward to seeing you on December 9.

Robaire

2016 Short Book List Nominees

1) Early Antiquity & Classical Greek Period (800 B.C. - 30 A.D.) 2/4

• 500 BC. The Art of War, Sun Tzu. Suggested by Jim

• 422 BC. The Wasps, Aristophanes. Suggested by James

• 380 BC. The Republic (Books ??), Plato. Suggested by William

• 60 B.C. Against Catalina, Cicero. Suggested by Lorraine

(2) + (3) The Christian Era and the Medieval Period (30 A.D. - 1400 A.D.) 2/5

• 55 AD. De Brevitate Vitae, Seneca. Suggested by Roman

• 524. The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius. Suggested by Lina

• 1150. The Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides. Suggested by Robaire **

• 1300. Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Dante. Suggested by Josee **

• 1350. The Decameron, Boccaccio. Suggested by Alice

(4) Renaissance & Early Modern Period(1400 - 1600) 1/3

• 1516 .Utopia, Thomas More. Suggested by Homam and Jim

• 1568. The New Organon, Francis Bacon. Suggested by Josee **

• 1580. The Essays, Montaigne. Suggested by Lina

(5) Enlightenment & Age of Reason (1600 - 1800) 2/4

• 1635. Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo. Suggested by Robaire **

• 1754. The Origin of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Suggested by William

• 1776. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. Suggested by Lorraine **

• 1793. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, William Blake. Suggested by James

(6) Modern & Post-Modern Era (1800 - 2000) 4/8

• 1817. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau. Suggested by Josee

• 1830. The Red & The Black, Stendhal. Suggested by Natasha

• 1865. Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Suggested by Robaire **

• 1889. Twilight of the Idols, Nietzche. Suggested by William

• 1903. Man & Superman, G.B. Shaw. Suggested by Jim

• 1930. Civilization and its Discontents, Freud. Suggested by Lina

• 1947. The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy. Suggested by Alice

• 1952. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway. Suggested by Homam

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