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To all the sci-fi and fantasy readers in the New Haven area!
Reading is an inherently solitary endeavor, let's get together a group of people who love to read sci-fi and fantasy, then, have a discussion on whatever topics are provoked by our selection. This group was started with three ideas in mind: it would be great to be able to talk over books and ideas with others; it's good to be challenged to read a book you otherwise wouldn't; it's nice to spend time with people who are interested in the same things you are.
We've read over 100 books and our selection process is simple. Each month a different member will choose three entries for the next month's selection. Simple majority wins. There are no rules to what selection can be put up for a vote except we ask the member who chooses should have attended at least two consecutive meetups.
Check out all the BOOKS we've read going backwards all the way to our founding. Looking forward to meeting you!
Founded Jun 26, 2013.
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#154 What should we read in June 2026?
Sashas, Waterbury ,, Waterbury, CT, USJune's book picks are by Patty
Poll is HERE
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin. 240 pages 1980
Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end?The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock. 333 pages 1993
The Hollowing is a 1993 fantasy novel by Robert Holdstock, part of his acclaimed Mythago Wood series, where a brain-damaged boy, Alex Bradley, is absorbed into the magical Ryhope Wood, unleashing his distorted, dangerous dream-creatures (mythagos) into the world, forcing his father to venture into the forest to find him and confront the chaos. The story follows his father's quest and a scientific expedition seeking to understand "mythago-genesis," the creation of these mythical beings from human imagination, all while dealing with warped figures like the Trickster.
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett 276 pages 2015
A shivering of worlds.
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.
This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.
As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.
There will be a reckoning…2 attendees
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