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August 12, 2014 by Chelle

King Peggy, Book Club Selection

HLAA-SLC has put together a book club which will alternate with our regular meetings.  Last month’s selection was King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggilene Bartels and Eleanor Herman.

King Peggy

King Peggy

We met last Saturday to discuss this delightful book, rich with tradition and scenery.  We all enjoyed reading it sharing  links and information from online.  Thank you Kathy for sharing this book with us.

The meeting was captioned (thank you Sanderson Center!) by TypeWell who did a great job as a few us depend on those captions.    That’s what makes this book club so great, the accessibility for those of who are hard of hearing and hesitant to join other book club for fear of missing out on discussion.

You can see the tablet on the table which picked up the captions.  The captions were also projected onto a screen on the wall also.

You can see the tablet on the table which picked up the captions. The captions were also projected onto a screen on the wall also.

The tablet and TypeWell supplying our captions.

The tablet and TypeWell supplying our captions.

Our next book is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

The Book Thief

We meet on October 11th from 9a-10:30a at the Sanderson Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Taylorsville.  Feel free to join us, it will be held in the looped room next time too!  Questions will follow as the date gets closer.

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May 25, 2014 by Chelle

Book Club June 7, 2014

  Our book social is coming up on June 7th at the Sanderson in the conference room from 9am-10:30.  We’ve been enjoying our  book chats and this time will be going over Robert Ludlum’s Matarese Circle.  I was able to pick up my copy at the county library near my house last week.  We have CART scheduled.  If you’re a reader join us, even if you didn’t get to the finish the book.  The questions Helen comes up with makes us think and our discussions engaging.  We hope to see you there.
matarese circle
1.  How did you experience the Matarese Circle? Were you
immediately drawn into the story–or did it take you a while? Did
the book intrigue, amuse, disturb, alienate, irritate, or frighten
you?
2.  Do you find the lead characters convincing? In particular did you
find the heroes and heroine Bradford Scolfield, (sometimes
called Bray, aka Beowulf Agate,) Vasilisi Talenieko, and
Antonia believable? Compelling? Are they fully developed
as complex, emotional human beings–or are they one-
dimensional?
3.  Did you find the female characters in the book, both the lead
character and any other women encountered in the plot fully
developed or just one-dimensional?.
4.Did you find the main enemy characters, Senator Joshua Appleton
IV, The Shepard Boy, (Guilderon), believable, complex or
basically one-dimensional?
5.  Is the plot well developed? Is it believable? Do you feel manipulated
along the way, or do plot events unfold naturally, organically?
6.  Is the story plot or character driven? In other words, do events
unfold quickly? Or is more time spent developing characters’
inner lives? Does it make a difference to your enjoyment?
7.  Do the actions of the hero, Bradford aka Bray seem believable
given the circumstances he finds himself in?
8.  Given the last few days of the story in Part III, do you find the
actions of Bray or the reactions of others in the plot believable
or fantastical?
9.  If you have seen any of the movies based on his other books,
especially the Bourne books, did you find any of the actions in
those movies somewhat unrealistic at times?
10. If you have seen any of the Bourne movies, and was swept
along with the suspense of the plot, did you feel that this book
would lend itself to a similar dramatic script suitable for a
movie? Or are there too many intangibles such as the gradual
evolution of the Matarese Circle or Bradford’s inner musings
that would prevent it from being a suspenseful film?
11.  Does it annoy you that the author uses Bray in one paragraph
and then Bradford the next almost throughout the book?
12.  Consider the ending, especially most of the events in Part III. –
– Did you expect it or were you surprised? Was it manipulative?
Was it forced? Was it neatly wrapped up–too neatly? Or was
the story unresolved, ending on an ambiguous note?
13.  If you could rewrite the ending, would you? In other words, did
you find the ending satisfying? Why or why not.
14.   Are you aware that the author is referring particularly to a real
life organization called the Trilateral Commission, developed
by David Rockefeller, and supported by several presidents
including President Jimmy Carter? The aims of those
organizations and over-reaching goals including details as to
which countries would be the core countries are roughly the
same –without the intent to replace governments by violent
means.
15.   Given his bias against the Commission, (stated in various
interviews and talk shows), do you believe that he is carrying
the commission’s goals to the extreme by having the Circle
develop terrorists who are actually pawns being used to
facilitate the establishment of authoritarian rule?
16.   Do you find the last actions of the President in this book to
be believable considering all that has gone before and his
supposed support of Bradford’s disclosures?
17.  Does this last action by the President indicate the author is
not finished with the concept, as shown by his next book the
Matarese Countdown?
18.  If you have not yet read the Matarese Countdown, would you
consider reading it after reading this book?
19. Can you pick out a passage that strikes you as particularly
profound or interesting–or perhaps something that sums up the
central dilemma of the book?
20.  Have you read the author’s other books? Can you discern a
similarity—in theme, writing style, structure—between them? Or
are they completely different?
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About Us

The Hearing Loss Association of America, Salt Lake City (HLAA-SLC) is a non-profit geographic chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) that is devoted to the welfare and interest of those who cannot hear well, but are committed to participating in the hearing world. As such, we are a hearing loss self-help group committed to the enjoyment of and improvement of sound through technology, medical advancements, education, and peer support.

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Due to COVID-19 our meetings will be virtual on Google Meets.
When it is safe again we will return to Sanderson Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
5709 South 1500 West
Taylorsville, UT 84123-5217
hearinglossutah@gmail.com
As of 2020: We will continue to meet online the third Saturday of the month 10-12, with the exception of July

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