Name: ALN Monthly Book Club: The Song of Achilles (Old Town)
Start: 2025-02-23T21:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-02-23T23:00:00.000Z
Location: Presidio Park

For our November Monthly Book Club, we will be reading Becky Chambers' "A Psalm for the Wild-Built!"

We will be hosting this event online, via Zoom!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3591477002

Content warning: Death, Torture, Violence. Details not given here to avoid spoilers. Contact an organizer if you have concerns about the book's content.

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. In a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:
December: The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
January: Filterworld, by Kyle Chayka
February: The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
March: Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
April: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
June: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
July: The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
August: Forging Hephaestus, by Drew Hayes
September: 2025-2026 ALN Book Selection!

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What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than with pizza, beer, and coloring?

Join with fellow nerds for the return of coloring day! Find us on the east side patio of Surf Rider Pizza in La Mesa. And parking in downtown La Mesa is free Sunday!

Feel free to bring your own coloring supplies and sheets, and your coloring hosts will also have some available should you need them.

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For our December Monthly Book Club, we will be reading Kaliane Bradley's "The Ministry of Time!"

We will be hosting this event online, via Zoom!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3591477002

Content warning: Depictions of depression and PTSD, racism, colonialism, homophobia, and death. Brief mentions of genocide, rape, and cannibalism. Details not given here to avoid spoilers. Contact an organizer if you have concerns about the book's content.

In near-future Britain, a narrator known as “the bridge” is hired by a newly founded ministry devoted to experimenting with time-travel. She is assigned to be a monitor and guide for Commander Graham Gore, one of five “expats” who have been pulled from the past to the present. Gore, a nineteenth-century naval officer plucked from the throes of the doomed Franklin Expedition, lives with the bridge in London and participates with the other expats in exercises that are intended to acclimate them to the present, while being monitored for signs of physical, mental, or dimensional deterioration. But as the bridge grows closer to Gore, it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems, and the government can’t (and won’t) be willing to protect everyone.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:
January: Filterworld, by Kyle Chayka
February: The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
March: Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
April: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
June: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
July: The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
August: Forging Hephaestus, by Drew Hayes
September: 2025-2026 ALN Book Selection!

ALN Monthly Book Club: The Ministry of Time, A Novel (Online)

For our January Monthly Book Club, we will be reading Kyle Chayka's "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened the World!"

We will be hosting this event IN PERSON, outdoors, at Presidio Park in Old Town! Attendees must be vaccinated; vaccination cards WILL be checked. In addition, we recommend (but do not require) that attendees wear masks and maintain social distance.

We typically meet at the picnic tables in the shade at the end of the loop made by Cosoy Way. Please see the embedded map below for more details.

Content warning: N/A. Details not given here to avoid spoilers. Contact an organizer if you have concerns about the book's content.

Filterworld is a non-fiction book about how algorithms homogenize not only our online experience but all aspects of our lives from the vacations we take to the clothes we wear to the restaurants we frequent.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:
February: The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
March: Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
April: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
June: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
July: The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
August: Forging Hephaestus, by Drew Hayes
September: 2025-2026 ALN Book Selection!

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ALN Monthly Book Club: Filterworld (Old Town)

Presidio Park

For our February Monthly Book Club, we will be reading Madeline Miller's "The Song of Achilles!"

We will be hosting this event IN PERSON, outdoors, at Presidio Park in Old Town! Attendees must be vaccinated; vaccination cards WILL be checked. In addition, we recommend (but do not require) that attendees wear masks and maintain social distance.

We typically meet at the picnic tables in the shade at the end of the loop made by Cosoy Way. Please see the embedded map below for more details.

Content warning: N/A. Details not given here to avoid spoilers. Contact an organizer if you have concerns about the book's content.

Achilles is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:
March: Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
April: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
June: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
July: The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
August: Forging Hephaestus, by Drew Hayes
September: 2025-2026 ALN Book Selection!

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