About us
The "Petaluma Salon" is for intellectually curious people.
Sorts of Events: Book Group, Movie Group, Card games, parties. We are a group of progressive people who like to read and have passionate discussions around all kinds of topics. We can poke fun of ourselves too! We prefer people who can have fun, laugh, and respect the opinions of others. We bring good food and drink wine and whatever.
The book club focuses on classic literature, Philosophy and Existentialism, and non-fiction. We also have movie night about once or twice a month. We play Cards Against Humanity, Scrabble and have Food events.
Upcoming events
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Book Club: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Location not specified yetTHIS BOOK CLUB IS NOT AT MY HOUSE THIS MONTH.
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Feb 10th, 7:00. Pot luck.
The book; Amos Tutuola's "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts"
Location; 8 Woodworth Way, Petaluma
510-621-9990
P.S. there are two cats.The book is only about 120 pages, but is available as a combined book with his first story "The palm wine drinkard". Both are short and some of the "ghosts" appear in both books.
This is a pair I read every few years.https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780802133632?siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-heBAR5LBJiJX7q329SXsPA for the paired book.
First published in 1954, now acclaimed as a modern classic, and named one of TIME’s “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time,” My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the second novel by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola. A small boy finds himself lost in the heart of an impenetrable African forest, populated with fantastical beings and ghosts. As every hunter and traveler knows, it is almost impossible to leave the bush—yet the appearance of the television-handed ghostess may offer him a rare opportunity for escape. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a masterpiece of the surreal that blends Tutuola’s native Yoruba culture with the encroaching influences of British and Christian colonialism in West Africa, a picaresque and darkly funny journey that is unique in literature.
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