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WEDNESDAY, February 1st at 7PM: More from A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN

Caledonia continues Laurie R. King's second adventure in her Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.

The mystery may still fog the facts, like the mist of a London January, but as Mary immerses herself in "The Temple" she gets closer to the truth, or those who know the truth.  Three women killed, whose estates benefit The Temple.  Another one nearly missed joining the others in a murky accident.  Mary is stepping into dangerous territory, as A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN continues.

Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
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TUESDAY, January 31st at 7pm: OF MICE AND MEN ~ Part 2

Seanchai Library continues John Steinbeck's original novella text, live in voice. George and Lennie find work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley (CA) and fellow souls who share their dream of owning a little place all their own.  

"we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof—


But they also encounter trouble . . . 

Shandon Loring, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
NOTE: Original text includes some language appropriate to the time and place for which the story was written - including racial slurs and cursing. Part 2 of 3, live in voice.

Also in Kitely at grid.kitely.com:8002:EXPLORESeanchai in Kitely


"We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit-in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.”

MONDAY January 30th at 7pm: DAVID and LISA

DAVID and LISA
- by Theodore Isaac Rubin -
Two emotionally disturbed teens slowly learn to deal with reality and with a faint but growing attraction for each other.
part one

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
Best American Film of 1962

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THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!
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All stories told in open voice, 
all times Pacific Time 

*Saturday, January 28th, at NOON: John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN (Part 1 of 3) at Seanchai Library's EXPLORE on the Kitely Grid. Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice. grid.kitely.com:8002:EXPLORESeanchai Read More 

*Sunday, January 29th, at 6 pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME:  How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse with Caledonia Skytower at the Golden Horseshoe In Magicland Park http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/180/56/31

*Monday, January 30th, at 7 pm: Theodore Isaac Rubin's DAVID and LISA with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, January 31st, at 7 pm:  John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN (Part 2 of 3) at Seanchai Library's EXPLORE on the Kitely Grid (grid.kitely.com:8002:EXPLORESeanchaiAND at the Main Seanchai Library in Second Life. Shandon Loring, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice. 

*Wednesday, February 1st at 7 pm:  Laurie R. King's A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN - Part 2 continues with Caledonia Skytower 

*Thursday, February 2nd at 7 pm:  Monsters & Myth: THE HYDRA - A Winter's Love Story, Part 1 with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitely)


Can you find all 17 of Lennie's  rabbits hidden in EXPLORE The World of John Steinbeck?


Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
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All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our January-February featured charity is Heifer International.  Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY January 26th at 7pm: An Evening with Hemingway, Tolstoi, and Saki

A squeezing of a slice of life into the narrowest of compasses
AN EVENING WITH
Hemingway, Tolstoi, and Saki

The desire to tell stories and to listen to them is one of the qualities inherent in all human nature, and the storyteller’s art is perhaps the oldest of all the arts in the world, and the best-loved. The short story is just the right length in a world of tumult and hurry… The essential quality of the short story is its economy. …here everything must show intensity of concentration, a squeezing of a slice of life into the narrowest of compasses… These stories, diverse as they are, share one thing in common: they all belong to a different time, and that is exactly what constitutes a classic—something recognizably dated, yet still works even after all those years. Tonight: 'The Killers' by Ernest Hemingway 'God Sees The Truth, But Waits' by Leo Tolstoi 'Tobermory' by Saki (H.H. Munro)
Book: A Pocket Book of Short Stories ASIN: B002EW7AMS

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AND AT 9:00pm... LATE NIGHT WITH FINN ZEDMORE!!
"The House of Half Mirrors"
by THORAIYA DYER

WEDNESDAY, January 25th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 1 Continues

"Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

“Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

“Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…”

Corwyn Allen continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

TUESDAY, January 24th at 7:00pm: A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN Returns

It was way back in September when Caledonia introduced us to author Laurie R. King's second adventure in her Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.

When last we saw Mary, she had infiltrated Margery Childe's "Temple" where much good is taking place, but some things just do not seem right - like a convenient series of deaths that benefit the Temple.  As we rejoin the adventure, Mary is about to get much deeper into the mystery, putting her own life at risk.

Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
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MONDAY January 23rd at 7pm: DESERTION


DESERTION
- by Clifford D Simak -
Written decades before Avatar, Desertion tells of men exploring Jupiter by proxy and the very unexpected conditions one man finds.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
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THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!
_____________________________________




EXPLORE: The World of John Steinbeck 
is open in Kitely
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All stories told in open voice, 
all times Pacific Time 




*Monday, January 23rd, at 7 pm: Clifford D Simak's DESERTION with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, January 24th, at 7 pm:  Laurie R. King's A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN - Part 2 begins with Caledonia Skytower 

*Wednesday, January 25th: 
   ~ at 2 pm: HYPERGRID SAFARI VISITS " The World of John Steinbeck"  with Caledonia Skytower on the Kitely Grid at grid.kitely.com:8002:EXPLORESeanchai
  ~ at 7 pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE - Part 1  Corwyn Allen continues Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning adventure

*Thursday, January 26th:
   ~ at 7 pm: AN EVENING WITH HEMINGWAY, TOLSTOI and SAKI with Shandon Loring
   ~ at 9 pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore


A young audience member at opening night of Tacoma Little Theatre's
production "Of Mice and Men" explores Seanchai's EXPLORE (supervised by an adult)
in the Lobby during Intermission.


Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
                _____________________________________________________


All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our January-February featured charity is Heifer International.  Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY January 19th at 7pm: FROM THE SHADOWS - Poe's Light House

"Third Thursday Every Month... From The Shadows"
POE'S LIGHT HOUSE
Dark fantasy, horror, ghosts, and the macabre! From MANY different top authors in the field. Touching many different topics... victims, vengeance, identities, gypsies, carnivals, famines, rain, seal people, evil rocks, psychic vampires, curses, old gods, trains, haunted houses, dreams, coast guards, doors, photographs, wakes, and occult arts.


Tonight:
Poe's Lighthouse - Brand new stories from Edgar Allan Poe. Yes, Brand New!
Yes, THE Edgar Allan Poe!
"The Flames Beneath The Light"
"Deep Into the Darkness Peering"

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WEDNESDAY, January 18th at 7:00pm: More from THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES

We are thinking that "Bob Howard", former IT guy turned secret operative for "The Laundry" is thinking that it was much safer underneath desks, tinkering ports and drives.
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

TUESDAY, January 17th at 7pm: HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE Concludes

Well, there's nothing much more uncertain than one of Hiccup's brilliant plans.  They work great, most of the time. We left Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III going to a seemingly certain death last week, so relax your anxious fingers from the edge the your seat and join Cale for the no-doubt-thrilling conclusion of the third adventure in Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series!

Caledonia concludes the wild and hilarious adventure tonight at the Fire Circle, Live in voice.

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MONDAY January 16th at 7pm: OUR FAIR CITY


OUR FAIR CITY
- by Robert Heinlein -
A reporter learns of a man's very unusual pet.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15TH at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street ~ Kinda!

Image by achamplin from Deviant Art
We continue our post Virtual Baker Street withdrawal therapy at the hands of a contemporary master, Neil Gaiman.  THIS WEEK: A Study In Emerald.

The story is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche transferred to the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The title is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet. "A Study in Emerald" first appeared in the anthology Shadows Over Baker Street, a collection of stories combining the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft; it has subsequently been available as part of Gaiman's short story collection Fragile Things, in the collection New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, and is available online. The online version takes the form of a Victorian periodical or newspaper, which includes various advertisements that reference characters such as Vlad Tepes, Victor Frankenstein, Spring Heeled Jack, and Dr. Jekyll.

Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, John Morland, and Caledonia Skytower, Live in voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!
_____________________________________

"Minority Report" as presented in Second Life

All stories told in 
open voice, 
all times Pacific Time 


*Sunday, January 15th, at 1:30 pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street - Kinda! in the Seanchai Fireside Room, Neil Gaiman's "A Study In Emerald"

*Monday, January 16th, at 7 pm: Robert Heinlein's OUR FAIR CITY with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, January 17th, at 7 pm:  Cressida Cowell's HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON #3: HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE concludes with Caledonia Skytower at the Fire Circle

*Wednesday, January 18th, at 7 pm:  THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE - Part 1  Corwyn Allen continues Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning adventure

*Thursday, January 19th, at 7 pm: FROM THE SHADOW'S - A Celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday with Shandon Loring

"Minority Report" audience in Kitely

Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
                _____________________________________________________


All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our January-February featured charity is Heifer International.  Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY January 12th at 7pm: THE MINORITY REPORT

"Better keep your eyes open. It might happen to you at any time."
THE MINORITY REPORT

In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs, allowing the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering a man whom he has never met, he endures a series of betrayals and changing alliances, and a progression of alternate realities.

This is the story that the movie THE MINORITY REPORT is based upon. Story: The Minority Report Author: Philip K. Dick

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AND DON'T FORGET!  @9PM - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore!

WEDNESDAY, January 11th at 7 pm: More from THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES ~ Part 1

The Laundry Files is a Lovecraftian series of novels by Charles Stross. They mix the genres of spy thriller, science fiction, and Lovecraftian horror. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant turned field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the British government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. In this world, computers and mathematical equations are just as useful, and perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for influencing unseen ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also elements of dry humor and satirisation of bureaucracy.


While the stories are partially inspired by the Cthulhu mythos universe created by H. P. Lovecraft and others, they are not set in Lovecraft's universe. Stross also decides that in a world where "magic" works, surely the greatest magicians would be scientists who closely study the phenomena; thus his work is replete with a secret history of how various acclaimed researchers of the past also dabbled or stumbled upon occult uses of their work.
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

TUESDAY, January 10th at 7pm: HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE Continues

In the very heart of enemy territory, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is laboring feverishly to bring all his skill forward and rescue the Vikings and Dragons from a hideous plot by the Romans. Sounds improbable?  Well, nothing is improbable in the Barbaric Archipelago of Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series!

Caledonia continues the wild and hilarious adventure tonight at the Fire Circle, Live in voice.

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MONDAY January 9th at 7pm: FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
- by Elleston Trevor -
On a flight to an isolated oil field in the Sahara the plane crashes deep in the desert.  Among the oil workers is a man who claims he designs airplanes and can rebuild one from the wreckage.  Can he do it or is he insane and delusional?

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
conclusion

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SUNDAY, January 8th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME Returns!

Wow!  It's been almost a year since we were last in the Fireside Room.  The 221B Lounge has been packed up and tucked away in Caledonia's inventory.  While we are relieved, we are also kind of going through withdrawal.

Fortunately, we've engaged some superior literature therapy thanks to the brilliant Neil Gaiman.  Today we pay tribute to the Baker Street Build with Gaiman's THE CASE OF DEATH AND HONEY, followed by a tongue-and-cheek nod to the upcoming "Tea Time Mysteries Series" with THE CASE OF FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS.

Kayden Oconnell, John Morland, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice in the Seanchai Library Fireside Room.
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THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!
_____________________________________




All stories told in 
open voice, 
all times Pacific Time 





*Sunday, January 8th:
   ~ at 1:30 pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street - Kinda! in the Seanchai Fireside Room
   ~ at 6 pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME with Caledonia with "Tales of Maui"at The Golden Horseshoe,  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/180/56/31

*Monday, January 9th, at 7 pm:  Elleston Trevor's FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX  continues with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, January 10that 7 pm:   Cressida Cowell's HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON #3: HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE continues with Caledonia Skytower at the Fire Circle
*Wednesday, January 11th, at 7 pm :  THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE - Part 1  Corwyn Allen continues Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning adventure
   
*Thursday, January 12th:
   ~ at 7 pm: Philip K Dick's MINORITY REPORT with Shandon Loring
   ~ at 9 pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore



Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
                _____________________________________________________


All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our January-February featured charity is Heifer International.  Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

WE'RE A JUST A LITTLE PROUD ...

As all Seanchai folks know, Job #1 at Seanchai Library is to inspire people with stories of all kinds:
short stories, novellas, poetry, across a wide number of genres and styles.  Our sessions are offered freely, without expectation of any kind - Just to enjoy what we share.

Job #2 in our Second Life program has always been to raise consciousness of featured charities, going back to our days at the West of Ireland in SL.  Recently, we shifted some of our operations around, and that necessitated retiring the "Bee Striped" Donation Jar that we have had rezzed since January of 2011.  That inspired us to look back at the fruits of Job #2 - five years of charitable contributions made by Seanchai Library on behalf of its friends and patrons.

Since January 2011 we have passed along $5,122 to 17 different charities featured at Library sessions.  In addition, we have also raised over $1,443 for other charities at "out-board" events we have produced elsewhere in Second Life.  That's just what we can track. The actual figure is more!

So the sharing of stories has raised over $6,565 to organizations doing good all over the planet.  And the most remarkable thing about this is that the average donation to the Seanchai Donation Jar is 8 to 12 cents.

Thank you, everyone, for joining us in this small but meaningful effort.

Click here to see our record of Charitable Contributions

THURSDAY January 5th at 7pm: THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

SOMETHING WENT WRONG...
AND ED FLETCHER GOT MIXED UP IN THE BIGGEST THING IN HIS LIFE
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Ed Fletcher is a real estate agent with a normal life, until one day he leaves the house for work a few minutes later than he should have.

This is the story that the movie THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU is based upon
Story: The Adjustment Team Author: Philip K. Dick

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WEDNESDAY, January 4th at 7 PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 1

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.
Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…
Join Corwyn Allen as he delves in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

TUESDAY, January 3rd at 7 PM; HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE Continues

Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first ‘Boarding an Enemy Ship’ lesson is bad enough. But to then discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn’t have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?
Caledonia Skytower reads the third How To Train Your Dragon book by Cressida Cowell.
Live in voice.

MONDAY January 2nd at 7pm: FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
- by Elleston Trevor -
On a flight to an isolated oil field in the Sahara the plane crashes deep in the desert.  Among the oil workers is a man who claims he designs airplanes and can rebuild one from the wreckage.  Can he do it or is he insane and delusional?

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
part three

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