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Yesterday The Turtle Party: Book Club to discuss our thoughts on our last book selection, Sway, and to choose the next book to read. Everyone one of us enjoyed reading Sway (for various reasons) and we all seemed to agree on the notion that the irrational behavior of some may be incomprehensible to others but that everyone seems to have a trigger that will set off irrationality in ourselves. Sway is such an easy book to read and understand, the subject of why we are swayed towards irrational behavior is terribly interesting. Our discussion on Sway yesterday was probably the liveliest convo we’ve had as a group discussing one of our books.

The selections for our next book were brought to the table by David and we decided as a group to next read Going West by New Zealand author Maurice Gee:

So … if you are reading along at home, we will be discussing this novel on our next meeting on May 7th.

Today should be a quiet day … I have a few things to take care of but I am hoping to stay in tonight. Tho, Darion has been trying to get us to go out for drinks so … we shall see. Happy Monday!!

Last night was the latest meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club where we discussed our thoughts on our last book, No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July which was chosen last month by our dear Amelia. Unfortch, last night’s meeting was Amelia’s last beause she is going abroad for the next few months. We loved the book and we LOVE Amelia and we will anxiously await her return home :)

The duty fell to Jason to select our next book so we went with his choice Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori and Rom Brafman:

We decided to go with something a bit different to read this time. The last book was our first collection of short stories and this book is our first critical thinking book. Sway sounds wholly fascinating and it was voted on by everyone last night … I’ve already downloaded the Kindle version so I can jump right in. Next month’s Turtle Party: Book Club meeting will be pushed back a week to April 11 to accommodate Easter … so plan accordingly all y’all who are reading along with us at home ;)

Other than that … no big plans for the day. It’s cooooold here in LA today. It’ll warm up to the 70s by Thursday but today is a chilly one. It’s a perfect day for reading :D

Last night was the latest meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club and it was, quite probably, the most exciting and fun meeting we’ve ever had. While some folks were not able to finish reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, the folks who did read it loved it entirely. I believe it was the highest rated book that we’ve read thus far. The duty fell to Amelia to bring in 3 selections for the group to vote on to read as our next book and after much debate, the decision came down to a tie between two books. After we asked our followers on Twitter to help us pick our next book, it was determined that we will be reading the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July:

I’m excited that our next book is a collection of short stories, I think it will make for a spirited discussion when we meet next. We decided to change up our meeting schedule a bit … instead of meeting every other Tuesday, we’ve decided to meet only once a month on the first Sunday of the month. Our next official meeting to discuss the book will be Sunday March 7 where we will discuss No One Belongs and then select our next book to read.

After our raucous meeting, we all stayed together to watch Lost … which was very fun, if a bit confusing and very lively for pretty much everyone … well, save for one of us. We had a great time last night, I love my fellow Turtle Partiers.

Today, we clean … we will be hosting David’s brother Aram this weekend to celebrate his birthday so we start cleaning our pit today. Wee, I can’t wait. /sarcasm

Last night was the most recent meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club where we discussed our final thoughts on the Charles Bukowksi novel Post Office. There were a couple of readers who weren’t too keen on the book but most of us loved its simple and colorful style. I, personally, loved the book and am very much looking forward to reading more of Bukowski‘s work.

Andy was charged with bringing a few selections for our next book and from his picks we decided to read Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer:

Funny enough, I picked up this book a few months ago to have on hand because I’ve always wanted to read it … it’s been on my “To Read” book pile for a while so now I can finally read it. I understand that this book was made into a movie starring Elijah Wood but I don’t think any of us Turtle Partiers have seen it. Because of the coming holidays, we decided to change up our meeting schedule a bit … we’ll be meeting in 3 weeks time (instead of two) and then again after the New Year.

Last night’s get-together was really fun … I really enjoy getting together for our book club meetings. We have so much fun :)

Plans for tonight are in flux … so I’m not sure what I’m doing yet. Unfortch, I’ve not been feeling better at all so I honestly would not be opposed to another relaxing night at home. I could get some reading done :)

OOOOOH and I’m happy to report that my ticket for the Michael Jackson: This Is It concert performance that David and I were supposed to see back in September (which never happened due to MJ‘s untimely death) finally arrived. As I understand it, there were 8 different 3D designs printed on the various tickets for the various performances:

The tickets printed with the special lenticular process, were inspired and designed by Michael Jackson for the fans attending his shows. This is the actual “oversized” concert ticket, measuring 82mm x 186mm (3.23in x 7.32in) for the 50 This Is It shows at The O2. His hopes were his fans would want to keep the special ticket as a reminder of the memorable evening that they would share together. The lenticular concert tickets feature one of eight unique designs printed via the lenticular printing process. Lenticular printing is a 3D process that can contain animation, multiple photos, morphing or a combination of these. The front of the ticket is the lenticular image and the reverse side is the standard ticket detail including the performer name, tour name, show date, venue, section number, row number, and seat number.

*Ticket images are not to scale and are a still image snapshot of the actual moving image represented on the concert ticket.

After the jump, find out which ticket design I got …

Yesterday was prolly THE most lazy day I’ve enjoyed in some time. I spent much of the day in bed watching the first season of Dexter as a refresher of how amazing the series is. I managed to rally by nightfall so that I could meet up with The Turtle Party: Book Club for last week’s rescheduled meeting last night. We talked about our progress with Charles Bukowski‘s Post Office and, by and large, everyone in the group seems to love it. There were a few things about the book that some folks didn’t like (the repetitiveness of the chapters and some obvs exaggeration, for example) but for the most part the group really likes the book and Bukowski‘s writing style as a whole.

Last night’s meeting was the first in a long time since all members of The Turtle Party: Book Club could be in attendance, so I brought my Polaroid camera to snap a couple of group shots for posterity:

I also snapped individual pics of each Turtle Party member, you can see those Polaroid scans HERE. The night was filled with mirth and merriment … and a bit too raucous of conversation because some nosy neighbors called the cops to complain. Apparently a ground of young adults discussing literature after 8pm is enough to force the police to investigate. The officer who followed up on the complaint laughed his ass off when he found out that he was trying to bust up a book club meeting.

See, reading can be so much fun!

The Turtle Party: Book Club meets again a week from Tuesday to finish discussion of this book and will select our next book to read.

Tonight, David and I are meeting up with our friends Emma and Josh to see Imogen Heap in concert at the Henry Fonda Theater. Imogen has been really sick lately, she even canceled her performance in Santa Barbara, CA last night … so I hope the show goes off tonight … just not to Imogen‘s detriment. If the show happens as planned, I’ll do my best to bring fun pics to share tomorrow!

Last night was the latest meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club and was our time to have our final discussion on Kurt Vonnegut‘s Breakfast of Champions. There was a mixed-bag of opinions on the book and we decided to rate the book 3.5 stars out of 5. I personally found the narrative too loose to follow and it took me well past the midway point of the book to even get into it. Had it not been for the book club, I would’ve abandoned the book by chapter 10. In retrospect, we discussed how it might’ve been more successful had we read a book from early in Vonnegut‘s career rather than near the end of it.

Caleb brought a selection of books for us to choose as our next book to read … by overwhelming consensus, we decided to take on Post Office by Charles Bukowski:

I’m really excited to read this book … it’s been one of the books I’ve been dying to get to. I look forward to discussing it with my fellow Turtle Partiers soon.

David and I are in full blown cleaning mode today … his sisters arrive tomorrow and we need to get this place in shipshape. That said, we are taking a break this afternoon to grab some food with a friend of ours we haven’t seen in ages. This evening will most likely be spent in the aisles at Target loading up on supplies … fun times!!

Last night The Turtle Party: Book Club got together for our latest meeting to discuss our progress on our current book Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. As you may recall, we determined that Breakfast of Champions would be our book of the month and last night was our time to check in and discuss the book thus far:

I was not able to read up to the agreed location in the book … we were supposed to be up to Chapter 15 and I only got to Chapter 5. I’ve been reading so many other things at the same time, I ran out of time. Thus far, I haven’t really gotten sucked in by the book just yet but everyone assures me that the book is good.

Before our book club meeting last night, David and I went out to run a few errands … and noticed that it is getting really cold here in LA at night. As soon as the sun started to go down at 6pm, the temp. dropped thru the floor. I’m really trying NOT to think about how cold it’s gonna be in NYC this weekend ;)

Last night The Turtle Party: Book Club finally managed to meet again after too many weeks of delay. Altho we were one member short, we managed to finally get around to discussing our first book selection Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Overall, we liked the book as a group … tho, some people had difficulty or just didn’t like the British humor. Our discussion veered off into the realm of religion and really made for an interesting conversation. It was really cool to hear everyone’s perspectives on the book, whether they liked it or not, which made the whole thing more enlightening overall. We had a really great discussion.

Tamar brought a selection of 4 books for us to vote on as our next selection and we decided as a group to read Kurt Vonnegut‘s Breakfast of Champions as our next book:

I haven’t read any of Vonnegut‘s work so I’m really excited to check out this book. The next meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club will be on October 6 and those who are reading along should have read up to the end of chapter 15 by that meeting time.

Tonight I have plans to meet up with Darion and Josh for dinner and/or a movie so that should be fun. Nothing too exciting going on this week … which is just the way I like it :)

Last night was the second meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club and we spent much of the meeting just checking in to see where everyone is in the book. Andy couldn’t make the meeting (last min. tix to see Elvis Costello took precedence, apparently) but Rob, home from his long sojourn away from SoCal, was able to attend. In fact, as a welcome home present for him and Tamar I decided to bring them gifts to help them settle back into domesticity together:

Yes, the animal print is for Roberto. I’m hoping to be able to share a photo of the happy couple enjoying their new gifts someday ;) We decided that Caleb would be bringing 3 options as our next book to read when we meet next, we’ll decide which book at that meeting … as well as discuss Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter. By all accounts, everyone is loving the book thus far … I’m really looking forward to discussing it with everyone in a couple of weeks. Make sure you follow @theturtleclub if you want to be kept apprised of our book club progress.

Tonight I take the red eye to NYC ahead of the Nine Inch Nails concerts that will take place there this weekend and next week. Those of you who follow NIN on Twitter surely caught the announcement that a few more tix for the Bowery Ballroom and Webster Hall were made available for sale earlier today. Hopefully those of you who couldn’t snag tix the first time around managed to get them this time around. I hope to see you there!! Tomorrow might be a bit whacky for me … I get into NYC at 5AM :( But, I’ll be comin’ atcha from the East Coast for the following week after so … Wee!!

Yesterday afternoon David and I got to spend a few fun hours with our dear friend Marissa who was flying from NYC to Hawaii and had a long layover here in LA … we picked her up, got our asses to Chick-Fil-A and had a grand ol’ time:

We’re hoping to see her when we get back east to NYC next month … but it was so fun getting to hang out with her for a short while yesterday :)

Last night I met up with Tamar, Ollie, Caleb, Andy and Jason at Tam’s place for the inaugural meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club. After our first order of biz (to name the club) was completed, we got to the matter of selecting the book. I came prepared with 4 options and we all decided to go with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett:

I was the only person to have read the book before and I am more than happy to read it again. After we finish this book, another person will over a selection of titles for us to agree on and we go from there. Here is the first photo of our book club:

Little Miss Lola, the pooch, is our book club mascot … Ollie is working on our secret handshake. We’ve decided to create a website for the book club and a Twitter account can be found HERE if any of y’all wanna follow along. I’m not entirely sure how we’ll be able to integrate those of you out there interested in reading along but … we’re gonna do our best to accommodate all y’all if possible :) If you have any feedback or suggestions, please send them along. We’ll be meeting on the first and third Tuesday of every month … it should be very fun :)

I’m not sure what is going on this evening but I’ve got some reading to do. I’m hoping to finish Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and then moving on to The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold … and, of course, Good Omens. So much reading … I love it!!

I also have to announce that today is my goddaughter Zakiya‘s 4th birthday!!

Can you believe that little Princess Z is already a 4 year old kid?! OY!! I’m looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her when I am home in Detroit this weekend. But please join me in sending lots of Birthday Lurve to Zakiya today! xo