Having recently grown into a hundred-member group, we will hold our (first!) Book Blanket Meetup which should work regardless of how many people attend!
The idea is that you can add books through a simple Google form below, and that the added books will be made into cards like those in the event photo. The resulting deck of book-cards will be brought to the meetup and used for discovering new books, and whether people have read the same books and how others felt about them — and perhaps for trading them in an attempt to build a Hand of Sanity in case you end up deserted on some island. (Would you risk it and pick highly-praised books you haven’t read, or rather resort to old favorites you know to be full of deep meaning? Come find out!)
Also, you’re just as welcome even if you haven’t read or submitted anything! Deserted islands are serious considerations regardless of reading history, and in any case others can practice explaining why some books could be good to read. And of course you can just ask others about books they admit having read, though everyone’s bound to forget old books. Time to resurface memories?
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Time?: 08-16-2014 15:00:00 (UTC+03)
Place?: CHANGED: To be weather-safe, we’re going to meet at the large lobby-cafe of Musiikkitalo (Mannerheimintie 13 A). To find me, I’ll have an orange hoodie.
Meetup : Helsinki Book Blanket Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Helsinki Book Blanket Meetup
WHEN: 16 August 2014 03:00:00PM (+0300)
WHERE: MANNERHEIMINTIE 13 A, Helsinki
Location changed to the large lobby-cafe of [http://www.musiikkitalo.fi/en] because of weather
Posted also as an event on Less Wrong Finland’s Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/events/632882116808767/ – viewing might require joining the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lw.finland/
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[Less Wrong Finland meetup]
Having recently grown into a hundred-member group, we will hold our (first!) Book Blanket Meetup which should work regardless of how many people attend!
The idea is that you can add books through a simple Google form below, and that the added books will be made into cards like those in the event photo. The resulting deck of book-cards will be brought to the meetup and used for discovering new books, and whether people have read the same books and how others felt about them — and perhaps for trading them in an attempt to build a Hand of Sanity in case you end up deserted on some island. (Would you risk it and pick highly-praised books you haven’t read, or rather resort to old favorites you know to be full of deep meaning? Come find out!)
The form (which seemed to me anonymous even if signed in to Google): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OCPK0_GLHBFEnB_WQ6e8lfFIbPlP1y7PahuQK9abeZg/viewform?usp=send_form)
Also, you’re just as welcome even if you haven’t read or submitted anything! Deserted islands are serious considerations regardless of reading history, and in any case others can practice explaining why some books could be good to read. And of course you can just ask others about books they admit having read, though everyone’s bound to forget old books. Time to resurface memories?
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Time?: 08-16-2014 15:00:00 (UTC+03)
Place?: CHANGED: To be weather-safe, we’re going to meet at the large lobby-cafe of Musiikkitalo (Mannerheimintie 13 A). To find me, I’ll have an orange hoodie.
Discussion article for the meetup : Helsinki Book Blanket Meetup