Our Jan meeting was held on Jan 5, 2009. The attendees and conclusions are as follows,
Attendees:
Sapvengi Zaidarhzauva
Joe Wu
Florence Cheng
Rachel Tsai
Ming-li Chu (by Skype)
Lydia Lai
Meilin Chang
Conclusions:
1. 2009 Organization -
Members: KIWC members (annual fee NT$ 1000).
Consultants:
Sapvengi Zaidarhzauva
Evelyn Chang
& Debbie Farrell
Chairperson: Rachel Tsai
Treasurer: Florence Cheng
Activity organizer: Julie Tseng
Secretary: Meilin Chang
Publicity Officer: All members
Discussion Leader:
Feb. - Rachel Tsai
Mar. - Lydia Lai
2. We all agreed to cancel the NT$500 annual dues.
3. We split Feb book reading into seven parts –
Chapter 1 & 11 - Rachel
Chapter 2 & 3 - Meilin
Chapter 4,5, &6 - Florence
Chapter 7 - Joe
Chapter 8 - Sapi
Chapter 9 - Mingli
Chapter 10 - Lydia
4. We suggested to send the new words what you look up to all members by e-mail to help each other. Meilin will post the new words on our new blog http://kiwcebdgroup.blogspot.com/.
5. Book selection
Feb book – The grass is singing
Mar book – The sea
New books –
The book thief by Tamela Mccann
552 pages and NT$420, 10% off
by Markus Zusak (not Tamela McCann)
Barack Obama: Dreams from my father
a. 430 pages and NT$600, 10% off
b. Adobe, Availability: Download Price: US$17.95
http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/title/dreams-from-my-father-obama-ebooks.htm
The God of animals by Aryn Kyle
305 pages and NT$490, sold out
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks.
not available
The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
not available
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder, the life of Warren Buffett
960 pages and NT$800, too many pages and too expensive
http://www.booksonboard.com/http://www.ebooks.com/
http://www.ereader.com/
http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/
http://ebookstore.sony.com/
(Evelyn & Rachel will make final decision for choosing four or five books)
Our new e-mail address kiwc.ebdgroup@gmail.com and new blog http://kiwcebdgroup.blogspot.com/ . You are welcome to browse.
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