{"id":2996,"date":"2024-03-05T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:34:42","slug":"nerdy-friends-book-club-month-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"Nerdy Friends Book Club – Month 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to the first month of the Nerdy Friends Book Club! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through popular request and strategic planning around busy schedules, I’ve selected Unnatural Creatures<\/strong>, a book of short stories curated by the great Neil Gaiman! There are 16 stories in all, so we will plan on reading two per month, and discuss them in the comments. I suggest that we aim to read the stories within the first 3 weeks of the month and leave the 4th week for commentary. This is not a hard and fast rule, you decide what works best for you, but be aware that after week 3, spoilers may appear in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month features the first two stories in the book, one of which has a non-verbal “Arrival” style title that looks like an audio sound wave, and which we will simply refer to as “Story One”. The second story is titled “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchists Bees”. Authors are not provided in the table of contents, but do get credited at the start of each story. That’s it! Chat with you in 3 weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing that jumped out at me from this book was the dedication, which makes me think of my friend Chrystal not because she’s boring (she isn’t!) but because I think she may actually be a secret agent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Bigfoot, for the time travelers, for the pirates, for the robots, for any boring people (who obviously aren’t actually secret agents in boring disguise), for people in space rockets, and for our mothers. ~N.G.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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