April Book Discussion — April 7

Posted on March 14, 2015 by tq

On, Tuesday, April 7 our BAIN book club will meet to discuss The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. Please feel free to join us whether you have read the book or not.

Meeting Details:

Date: Tuesday, April 7

Time: 3:30pm

Place: Cafe In Bocca al Lupo

Address: Bonpland 1965

RSVP: jendan@gmail.com

We are taking suggestions for the next three to four months for book club. We are hoping to select a mix of genres for the next few months.

When making suggestions, please consider the following:

is this book available in Kindle or electronic version
number of pages (below 400 is best)
genre
any “classics” that you want to read (or re-read)?

Please send any suggestions to Jennifer at jendan@gmail.com. When sending a suggestion, please note full title, author name and brief description. At the end of the next meeting we will discuss our suggestions.

March Social Meeting — March 27 at 6 pm

Posted on March 14, 2015 by tq

BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to join in this month’s social get-together. We will be returning to the ever-popular La Terrasse, in the lovely Plaza Hotel.

The event will start at 6 p.m. BAIN will provide appetizers, and members and guests can purchase their drinks from an extensive bar menu.

Location: La Terrasse, in the Plaza Hotel, Florida 1005 (Retiro, in the city center) across from Plaza San Martín. La Terrasse is on the first floor, which happens to be up two floors from the lobby. You can find it by going into the Fitness Center. Should you need further assistance, the staff are very helpful.

Date and Time: Friday, March 27 at 6 p.m.

Program: Conversation. Meet someone new. Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN. We will provide light appetizers and finger food.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – 50 pesos*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for about one year’s membership is 250 pesos.

March Morning Coffee — Wednesday, March 18

Posted on March 8, 2015 by tq

Let’s enjoy excellent coffee, lots of goodies, and great conversation.

We’ll meet with our old friends and make new ones.

Location: Mary Ann Murphy´s home in Retiro

(You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 18

from 10.30 until noon

Please RSVP to: Mary Ann Murphy murp4@aol.com

**The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.

**This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com

March Wine & Tapas — March 14

Posted on February 28, 2015 by tq

Please join us for an evening of wine, tapas, and friendly conversation.

Location: Palermo – Exact address provided upon RSVP
Date: Saturday, March 14th.
Time: 8.00 p.m.

Our host this month adds:
Show up anytime between 8 and 9; the party generally ends at 11 or so. People are truly welcome to stay and sip wine thereafter until I change into my pajamas, which is my subtle way of hinting that it is time to go home. Which might be at 12, or might be at 3.

How does it work? Bring wine, finger food, and your sparkling self to join other BAIN members in a night of socializing and making new friends. We look forward to catching up with you!

Our host this month further adds: if you bring your own serving dish and utensils that would help, as I have a limited supply to share.

Please email RSVPs to jisaacs61.com

The address will be sent to you via email response.

New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think! One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for any BAIN member interested in attending.

If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Linda Talluto: LTalluto@gmail.com.

*This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only, and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com

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February Book Group — Tuesday, February 10

Posted on January 26, 2015 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: Fury by Salman Rushdie

Date: Tuesday, February 10th
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: jendan@gmail.com

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, February 10th. Bring suggestions of future books you would recommend for discussion.

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10: The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**

If you have any questions about the titles or meetings of the Book Club, please contact me at jendan@gmail.com

See you in February!

Ladies Night Out — Thursday, January 15

Posted on January 9, 2015 by tq

BAIN’s Ladies Night Out will start the New Year with a sunset Happy Hour at the Central Market in Puerto Madero (across from the Hotel Hilton) starting at 19:00 hs on Thursday, January 15th. Please plan to join us if you are in BA! The sunsets are glorious.

On Thursdays the Central Market offers drinks + appetizers + DJ + sunset with 10% discount.

Address: Dique 4 / Macacha Guemes 300.

Ladies, mark your calendars now and RSVP to Marcia Williamson / marcia@transpack.com.ar

(Silvia, who usually coordinates this event is enjoying the beach in Ecuador – we will toast to her in her absence)

Cheers to all!

Morning Coffee — January 22

Posted on January 1, 2015 by tq

Come and join us for a Morning Coffee!

Let’s enjoy excellent coffee, lots of goodies, and great conversation. We’ll meet with our old friends and make new ones. BAIN members and their invited guests are welcome.

Location: Jolanda’s home in Puerto Madero (You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)

Date and Time: Thursday , January 22 from 10.30 until noon.

Please RSVP to: Jolanda Maltha <jmaltha@hotmail.com>

Book Group — Tuesday, January 13

Posted on December 20, 2014 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: tonilin@aol.com (Toni)

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, January 13

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

Please feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read the book.

January 13: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Jorges Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10: The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**

If you have any questions about the titles or meetings of the Book Club, please contact me at tonilin@aol.com

See you in January!

Luncheon — December 18

Posted on December 8, 2014 by tq

Closed for over ten months, 36 Billares reopened on September 24, 2014 after a huge renovation and restoration work. This is our destination for the BAIN December luncheon!

Date: Thursday, December 18

Time: 12:30 pm

Place: Los 36 Billares, Av. De Mayo 1271, phone 4381-5696

Cost: 100 pesos (includes tip)

Please RSVP to mweldon213@yahoo.com to secure a place. Do not reply to this e-mail as it will go to BAIN, but rather send the reply to my address.

We will order from the following menu which includes both water and wine.

MAIN COURSE CHOICES

– Pastas : Tallarines, Fettuccinis, Fuccilli or Noquis

Select a salsa: fileto, pesto, a la crema, a la manteca or al aceite

– Wok de pollo with vegetables and sesame

– Hamburguesa

– ¼ de pollo al horno

DESSERT CHOICES

Flan de huevo or coffee

Total cost for the meal including tip will be 100 pesos.

December Book Group — Tuesday, December 9

Posted on November 19, 2014 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth (read to the end of the message to see books selected for the first 3 months of 2015)

Date: Tuesday, December 9th
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: loucrie@yahoo.com (Julia)

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, December 9th.

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

**I will call ahead to reserve the seating area on the top floor for us (by the bathrooms) so we don’t have to sit outside in the heat or next to the noisy fan.**

Amazon description of The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth.

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it’s not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past–a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful dean of faculty. And it’s not the secret of Coleman’s alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife. Nor is it the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend. Coleman’s secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came unraveled. Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth’s eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation’s fate as by the “human stain” that so ineradicably marks human nature. This harrowing, deeply compassionate, and completely absorbing novel is a magnificent successor to his Vietnam-era novel, American Pastoral, and his McCarthy-era novel, I Married a Communist

The book, as always, is available electronically. (Click on title above for the kindle version on Amazon).

Please feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read the book.

Upcoming books:

Thanks for your response to the online book survey! Here are our next books according to the voting:

January 13: The Invention of Morel () by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Jorges Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10:The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**