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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Razorblade Tears\nBy: S.A. Cosby\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Nov 18th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nIke Randolph and Buddy Lee\, two ex- cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons\, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life\, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will \nconfront their own prejudices about their sons and each other\, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-11-18/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Magician\nBy: Colm Toibin\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Oct. 21st at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nGermany’s greatest 20th century writer\, Thomas Mann\, is the subject of Colm Tóibín’s novel. \nGay\, artistic Thomas Mann is born into a prosperous mercantile family in Lübeck\, a provincial German port on the Baltic Sea. In Thomas’s surroundings\, money is as self-evident and essential as water and sunshine. When\, a few decades later\, the post-war inflation evaporates the family fortune\, his mother does what other self- respecting women of her class would do – take to bed and starve herself to death – because she simply doesn’t know how to live otherwise.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-10-21/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230916T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230916T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Ike’s Master Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler\nBy: Peter Shinkle\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Sept. 16th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nWhat do you do if you’re gay\, closeted\, and a vital part of a homophobic president’s inner circle? Journalist Peter Shinkle seeks to answer this question with his book Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler. Shinkle spent twelve years pulling together a book on his great-uncle Robert “Bobby” Cutler’s. Using Cutler’s personal diary as a pivotal reference\, a dairy which described his obsessive love affair with another man\, Ike’s Mystery Man digs deep into US post-World War II history and how our government dealt with the LGBTQ community at that time.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-09-16/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Under the Rainbow\nBy: Celia Laskey\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: August 19th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nCelia Laskey’s Under the Rainbow is a timely look into what it means to be queer in spaces that aggressively refuse you. Smart and compulsively readable\, Laskey has woven together narratives that seek to embrace each other through the hurt. There is love and loss alike sandwiched in its pages\, pain and pleasure.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-08-19/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230715T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230715T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening\nBy: Ari Shapiro\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: July 15 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nAri Shapiro\, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” came out at 16. Though he hadn’t even kissed a boy there were rumors among his peers about his sexuality. “I decided that the best approach was to drown out the whisper campaign with a bullhorn.” He plastered his locker with postcards of Tom of Finland drawings and photographs by \nHerb Ritts and Tom Bianchi. “On Halloween\, I came to school in drag. After that\, my calculus teacher stopped calling on me when I raised my hand in class.” \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-07-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230617T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230617T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Last Call\nBy: Elon Green\nHost: Jerry\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: June 17th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact- Based Crime Book. A harrowing\, true-crime account of an elusive serial killer who preyed upon gay men in the 1990s New York.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-06-17/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230520T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T200125Z
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Up with the Sun\nBy: Thomas Mallon\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: May 20th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nThrough the life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver\, poisonously charming actor\, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are explored.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-05-20/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: My Government Means to Kill Me\nBy: Rasheed Newson\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: April.15th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nDebut novel from television writer Rasheed Newson (The Chi\, Bel-Air) tells a fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young\, gay\, Black man in 1980s New York City. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-04-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230218T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Less is Lost\nBy: Andrew Sean Greer\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Feb. 18 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\n“Dogged by financial crisis and the death of his former lover\, Arthur Less sets out across the American landscape with nothing but a rusty camper van\, a somber pug\, and a zigzagging itinerary of literary gigs. His scrapes with flooded communes and mistaken identities evoke belly-aching laughter\, but along the way\, he’s forced to confront hard truths about his estranged father\, his strained relationship\, and the enigmas of American life. Our reluctant hero blunders his way into a cascade of disasters\, but the more lost Less gets\, thecloser he is to being found.” \n— Esquire Magazine\, Sept. 20\, 2022 \n\n\n\nThe book club will meet: February 18th at 1:15 pm at the Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 E Lake St\, Minneapolis\, MN 55407 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-02-18/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T200125Z
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Boys and Oil\nBy: Taylor Brorby\nHost:\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Jan. 21 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review:
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2023-01-21/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220717T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220717T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T195318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220705T204145Z
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SUMMARY:1:00 PM - Sunday - Dominoes
DESCRIPTION:Bring your domino sets and a dish or snack tray or beverage to share! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTC Bus Route 21.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/200-pm-sunday-dominoes-2022-07-17/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220716T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220716T150000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Notorious Dr. August\nBy: Christopher Bram\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: July 16th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nSpanning the years between the Civil War and the 1920’s\, Christopher Bram’s novel tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd\, alias Dr. August\, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts\, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. \n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2022-07-16/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220618T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220618T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T120355Z
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir\nBy: Brian Broom\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: June 18th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \n\n\n\n“Punch Me Up to the Gods” is a coming-of-age story that explores Black manhood and queerness in the Rust Belt. The title of the book is a reference to the ways that Black boys are often socialized into rigid conceptions of manhood — sometimes by the use of violence. “Any Black boy who did not signify how manly he was at all times deserved to\nbe punched back up to God to be remade\, reshaped\,” Broome writes. With this book\,\nBroome hopes to counter the force of that punch by exploring the beauty of queer Black manhood\, while offering a new way to write about that beauty.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2022-06-18/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220521T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220514T211758Z
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\nBy: Ocean Young\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Dec. 21 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\n“A diary of life on the margins of American society…For all that Vuong has to say about history\, queerness\, and American culture\, everything about his book feels specific and personal.” —Boris Kachka\, Vulture \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2022-05-21/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T195318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220514T205649Z
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SUMMARY:1:00 PM - Sunday - Dominoes
DESCRIPTION:Location: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTC Bus Route 21.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/200-pm-sunday-dominoes-2022-05-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T195318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220205T215615Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: 2:00 PM - Sunday - Dominoes
DESCRIPTION:Due to the Quatrefoil suspending meetings in their common areas for February\, we are suspending dominoes until the Quatrefoil lifts the suspension or we find an alternative place to meet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTC Bus Route 21.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/200-pm-sunday-dominoes-2022-02-20/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220219T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20191127T200125Z
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SUMMARY:1:00 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Shooting Midnight Cowboy\nBy: Glenn Frankel\nWhere: ZOOM\nWhen: Dec. 21 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\n“That Frankel is willing to point out that the movie is flawed is part of what makes the book so essential \n— Shooting Midnight Cowboy is a history\, not a paean\, and he asks viewers to reconsider what the movie meant\, not just to American culture\, \nbut to the cast and crew who made it. Frankel’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in cinematic history\, and an enthralling look at Schlesinger’s “dark\, difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed men and women who made it.” \n\n\n\nTime: 1 p.m. Saturday\, Feb 19\nJoin Zoom Meeting \n\n\n\nPlease contact Rick for the ZOOM link by email here.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2022-02-19/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
CREATED:20211207T025752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T032331Z
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SUMMARY:2:00 PM - Sunday - Cribbage!
DESCRIPTION:We have started a new event! Cribbage!\nIt’s a fun sociable game\, and it’s easy to learn. If you don’t know how to play\, NO WORRIES! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan and others will be MORE THAN HAPPY to teach you. If you have a cribbage set\, bring it along! Bring a dish or snack tray or beverage to share! \nLocation: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments \nContact Alan by email here with any questions.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/200-pm-sunday-cribbage/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Fashionably Late: Gay\, Bi\, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life\nBy: edited by Vinnie Kinsella\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Zoom\nWhen: May 15 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nFilled with tales about divorce\, conversion therapy\, misadventures in dating\, overcoming\, bigotry\, and gender exploration\, this collection paints a vivid pictureofgay\,bisexual\,and transgendermen experiencing their second coming of age. \nContact us by email here for the Zoom link.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2021-05-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210417T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Prophets\nBy: Robert Jones Jr.\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Zoom\nWhen: Apr. 17 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nSamuel and Isaiah are young slaves on a big cotton plantation “known by its rightful name: Empty\,” and overseen by Paul Halifax and his wife\, Ruth. The two slaves have been lovers for a while\, stealing moments of tender passion in the hayloft of the barn where they care for farm animals. Other slaves know and don’t much care \nthat the two well-liked men are a couple. Amos\, a slave-preacher who’s been tutored in the Bible by the pious\, hypocritical Paul\, decides to condemn Samuel and Isaiah to his flock. When Paul and his overseer find out\, they devise a sadistic punishment for the lovers.” \n\n\n\n— from Claude Peck’s review in the Star Tribune\, Dec. 31\, 2020
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2021-04-17/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210320T153000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Storm\nBy: Christopher Zyda\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: March 20th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \n“Christopher Zyda confronts the long-buried and painful memories of his\nharrowing fifteen-year journey in The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation\, a heart-wrenching love story and coming-of-age tale during\nthe early years of the AIDS crisis in Los Angeles. \nIt all begins in early 1984\, when Chris\, a twenty-one year old UCLA English Literature major\, risks ostracism when he comes out of the closet to his fraternity brothers just as the AIDS pandemic is beginning to explode in gay communities across the United States. Soon afterward\, Chris meets and falls in love with Stephen\, a graduate of Yale University and Law School\, and the two of them build a life together as their friends start to fall sick and die from the spreading\nstorm of AIDS. \nStephen begins showing symptoms of AIDS in early 1986\, and Chris faces a difficult choice as he is certain that he\, too\, eventually will be stricken by the disease. He abandons his writing career and attends the UCLA business school so that he can earn enough money to pay for healthcare during Stephen’s illness.” \nLambda Literary Review
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2021-03-20/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210116T160000
DTSTAMP:20260522T135301
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: How We Fight For Our Lives\nBy:  Saeed Jones\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Zoom\nWhen: Jan 16 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nAs How We Fight for Our Lives is Saeed Jones’ biography\, it is a unique narrative of the events that shaped him. \nHowever\, it is also a story packed with elements that profoundly connect him to poetry\, to every black person that came before him in this country\, and to many of us who grew up dreaming of a chance at upward social mobility through education that we couldn’t afford. Extremely personal\, emotionally gritty\, and unabashedly honest\, How We Fight for Our Lives is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence\, hope and hostility\, transformation\, and resentment. \n\n\n\nDespite the changing backgrounds\, the core of his life remained the same: his mother; his family; his passion for words; and his sexuality. Jones knew he was gay at an early age but finding himself and developing the strength to show his true self to the world took years. His memoir highlights that he was painfully aware of how discrimination\, homophobia\, and racism work in this country\, how they contaminate everything\, and that made him cognizant of the possible consequences of being an openly gay black man. The struggles that he faced and the journey he embarked on to find and (re)define his identity after every major change are the heart of this book. And it’s a wild heart full of need — and one desperate to communicate its humanity with the world.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2021-01-16/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201219T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201219T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: History of Violence\nBy: Edouard Louis\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Zoom\nWhen: Dec. 19th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nHistory of Violence is international autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. \nOn Christmas Eve 2012\, in Paris\, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village\, the family\, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. \nA bestseller in France\, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present\, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator\, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching\, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers\, brothers and sisters\, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity\, skill\, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation\, in French or English.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2020-12-19/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200322T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200322T170000
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SUMMARY:2:00 PM - Sunday - Dominoes
DESCRIPTION:Location: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTC Bus Route 21.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/200-pm-sunday-dominoes-2020-03-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Flannelwood\nBy: Raymond Luczak\nHost: Gus\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: March 21 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nRaymond Luczak (Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life) performs a delicate balancing act in this romantic elegy\, taking inspiration from the tone and plot of Djuna Barnes’s groundbreaking 1936 novel Nightwood while still crafting an original and modern\, but somewhat unsatisfying story about learning to love and to let go. When failed poet and full-time barista Bill Badamore meets James Alan at the annual OctoBear Dance at the local VFW\, he is overwhelmed. James\, a surly and secretive amputee\, seems to be everything that Bill has ever wanted in a lover\, and their chemistry is incendiary. But after a tumultuous six months together\, James abruptly ends their relationship. Lost and forlorn\, Bill recalls his life\, his failed romance with the troubled James\, and his discovery of true love with a courageous playwright in the wake of heartbreak. Luczak explores a number of significant themes in these rambling ruminations\, including living with disability and finding one’s true self within a repressive masculine culture. Unfortunately\, the utter devotion to emulating Barnes’s style often leaves the prose feeling belabored\, and some of the book’s impact is lost beneath the waves of references\, quotes\, and digressions. This experiment is not unsuccessful\, but only fans of interwar modernist queer literature are likely to really dig it. \n\n\n \n\n\nPublishers Weekly
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2020-03-21/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: The Unpunished Vice\nBy: Edmund White\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Feb 15 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \nEdmund White\, …the author of “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Farewell Symphony\,” is back with a new book-crazy memoir\, “The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading.” It finds him seductively “rambling” (his word) through his boyhood memories of library-stack escapades\, both bibliophilic and erotic; his literary friendships with John Irving\, Alison Lurie\, Joyce Carol Oates\, Michael Ondaatje and others; and his marriage to writer Michael Carroll\, which he makes sound like a union between a social butterfly (himself) and an extremely fit but soberly devoted apostle of literature (Carroll).
There’s also brilliant commentary on novelists Colette and Penelope Fitzgerald\, cult author Curzio Malaparte\, playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau and Britain’s greatest literary eccentric\, Henry Green\, whom White discovered at the Evanston Public Library. \nThe teenaged White lived with his divorced mother on Chicago’s Near North Side before heading to college in Michigan. As he puts it\, he was “a midwestern public library aesthete and would-be intellectual” who hankered after Paris — and eventually got there too. \nMichael Upchurch\, Chicago Tribune
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2020-02-15/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200118T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200118T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Oranges\nBy: Gary Eldon Peter\nHost: Rick\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: January 18th at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review: \n\n\n\nGary Eldon Peter writes revealingly about things we all experience. The haunting aura left by a former lover. Sparks of humor even in tending to grim details of a dying parent. The incompleteness\, the compromises\, of our closest relationships. \nLinking the collection is Michael\, a 40-something lawyer who has lost a longtime lover to AIDS. Michael has a boyfriend\, Stephen\, and is helping care for his dying mother and aging father. \nIn the bittersweet title story\, Michael’s plain-spoken mom\, who is in chemotherapy for cancer\, loves the oranges that he brings when he drives down to Iowa from Minneapolis to visit her. In “Sun Country\,” he visits his widowed father at a chilly retirement colony in Florida. What gay child can’t relate when it becomes clear that talking with your dad about golf\, travel schedules and car cleaning proves much easier than tackling a discussion of a son’s gayness? \nClaude Peck\, Star Tribune
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club-2020-01-18/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191221T160000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:What: Shortest Way Home By: Peter Buttigieg\nHost: Jerry\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\nWhen: Dec. 21 at 1:15 PM \nContact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here. \nBook Review:\nHave I mentioned Buttigieg is gay? It’s a marker of just how drastically the politics around gay rights have evolved in the past decade that this fact isn’t considered immediately disqualifying in a presidential candidate. Buttigieg himself noted this shift in a recent interview: “When I got into elected office” — just seven years ago — “it was a given in my mind that you could either be out or you could be in office — not both.” \nBut Buttigieg has managed to do both\, in Mike Pence’s Indiana of all places. After taking leave from his first term as mayor to serve in Afghanistan\, Buttigieg returns home eager to be upfront about his sexuality: “Before going overseas\,” he writes\, I had felt comfortable being more than one person\, as we all sometimes must\, according to the roles we are called to play. […] But something about exposure to danger impresses upon you that a life is not only fragile but single\, with one beginning and one end. It heightens the desire for your life to make sense as a whole\, not just from certain angles.” \nAfter telling his parents he’s gay\, he writes an essay for the South Bend Tribune to take the news public. Notwithstanding a few internet trolls\, some conservative constituents\, and an anti-gay newspaper deliveryman who temporarily boycotts Buttigieg on his morning rounds\, the reception is generally positive. Buttigieg goes on to win reelection with over 80 percent of the vote.\n— Harrison Hill\, Los Angeles Review of Books
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-saturday-book-club/2019-12-21/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Recurring Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191116T131500
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Host: Steve Forseth\nWhere: Quatrefoil Library\n1220 E Lake St.\nMinneapolis\, MN 55407\nWhen: Nov. 16 at 1:15 PM\nWhat: Lie With Me: A Novel By: Phillip Besson \nO\, The Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books That’ll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring \nOut Magazine’s Best Queer Books of April 2019 TheSkimm’s LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride \nTHE #1 FRENCH BESTSELLER \n“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman\, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning\, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France\, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. \nWe drive at high speed along back roads\, through woods\, vineyards\, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise\, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road\, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him\, that I’m holding on to him outside. \nJust outside a hotel in Bordeaux\, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten\, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls\, they steal time to meet in secret\, carrying on a passionate\, world-altering affair. \nDazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation\, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.
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LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191019T150000
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SUMMARY:1:15 PM -3rd Saturday - Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Come join the Prime Timers Minneapolis/St. Paul monthly Book Club.  We welcome new and returning members to any book club meeting.  There’s no requirement to attend more than a single meeting and we always welcome a new face. Meetings are informal and fun interactive experiences.  Because the book under discussion is often just the starting point launching us into wide ranging conversations both personal and philosophical. We hope to see you there! \nUpcoming Book Selection: \nHosts: Ed Anderson \nDate: October 19th\, 1:15 PM \nWhat: Mama’s Boy: A Story from our Americans \nAuthor: Dustin Lance Black \nBook Description \nThis heartfelt\, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal. \nDustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8\, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins—a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio\, Texas. His mother\, Anne\, was raised in rural Louisiana and contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal surgeries\, as well as braces and crutches for life\, and was told that she would never have children or a family. Willfully defying expectations\, she found salvation in an unlikely faith\, raised three rough-and-rowdy boys\, and escaped the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages before finding love and an improbable career in the U.S. civil service. \nBy the time Lance came out to his mother at age twenty-one\, he was a blue-state young man studying the arts instead of going on his Mormon mission. She derided his sexuality as a sinful choice and was terrified for his future. It may seem like theirs was a house destined to be divided\, and at times it was. This story shines light on what it took to remain a family despite such division—a journey that stretched from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to the woodsheds of East Texas. In the end\, the rifts that have split a nation couldn’t end this relationship that defined and inspired their remarkable lives. \nMama’s Boy is their story. It’s a story of the noble quest for a plane higher than politics—a story of family\, foundations\, turmoil\, tragedy\, elation\, and love. It is a story needed now more than ever.
URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/minneapolisstpaul/event/115-pm-3rd-saturday-book-club/2019-10-19/
LOCATION:Quatrefoil Library\, 1220 East Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407\, United States
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