October and November 2008

In October we like to read spooky/creepy selections since our meetings fall near Halloween. In the past we've read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (we liked it) and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (nobody finished it because it was boring and tedious and dreary and nothing ever happened).

This year we're reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a short book, just over 100 pages, so there's no excuse not to pick it up from the library or read it online.

Also for October we're doing part 1 of next month's selection. We're reading short stories for November. Choose a short story and make copies to distribute at October's meeting so we'll have a chance to read all the stories by November's meeting. Many older classics are in the public domain and available online from sites like literature.org. Also, many current authors publish their stories on their websites under Creative Commons licenses, meaning they are free to read and distribute with proper attribution. And then of course there's the photocopy machine.