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 a limited number of BAIN members and guests.
If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Venetia Featherstone-Witty at her email address chefvenetia@yahoo.com
This event Is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only and their personal guests. It you are interested In becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
Wine & Tapas 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.
On Tuesday, March 12, at 2 pm we will be discussing Moral Hazards by Tim Martin. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com. Physical books are available for purchase. If you would like to meet in person in Almagro, please resond to tonilin@aol.com.
You will be sent the Google Meet link or the physical address upon RSVP.
Suggestions for discussion in 2024 are welcome. Please send to tonilin@aol.com .
The list of the books for the beginning of 2024 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.
March — Moral Hazards — Tim Martin — 2020, 354 pp
The author, Tim Martin, will be with us to discuss the book. If you would like to buy a copy of the book, please let Toni know.
“A woman fights to protect the victims of sexual violence in the world’s largest refugee camp in Martin’s debut political thriller. … Martin’s prose is precise and powerful throughout this novel. …The deftly constructed characters help to give life to these issues while also involving readers in their particular plights.
A well-crafted novel that’s both informative and dramatically satisfying.” Kirkus Review
April — The Golden Gate – Vikram Seth – 1986, verse – 320 pp
“The great California novel … , in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy.”—Gore Vidal
One of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth’s story in verse made him a literary household name in both the United States and India.
John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper.
“A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness.”—The New York Times
“Seth pulls off his feat with spirit, grace and great energy.”—The New Yorker
“A marvelous work . . . bold and splendid . . . Locate this book and allow yourself to become caught up, like a kite, in the lifting effects of Seth’s sonnets.”—Washington Post Book World
May–The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride — 2023 – 400 pp
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE
“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.
June–Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements–Paul Strathern– 2019–314 pp
The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind’s quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev’s dream of the Periodic Table.
**One of Bill Gates’ Top Five Book Recommendations**
In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world.
From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man’s dream.
In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.
July – The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures–Edward Ball –2013–464 pages
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge’s quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.
BAIN provides the hors d’oeuvres, you provide the fun.
Fee is 6000 pesos for members, 7000 pesos for guests. Yearly membership is $US10 or the equivalent at the blue rate. If you join at the event, you pay as a member.
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 a limited number of BAIN members and guests.
If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Venetia Featherstone-Witty at her email address chefvenetia@yahoo.com
This event Is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only and their personal guests. It you are interested In becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
Wine & Tapas 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 month we will enjoy the end-of-the-month BAIN Social evening at The Kilkenny Bar & Grill on Friday, January 26 from 6 to 8 pm. We will be gathering back by the fireplace.
Please RSVP (link below) to make sure we have enough provisions for you.
The address of The Kilkenny is Marcelo T. de Alvear 399.
BAIN provides the hors d’oeuvres, you provide the fun.
Fee is 5000 pesos for members, 6000 pesos for guests. Yearly membership is $US10 or the equivalent at the blue rate. If you join at the event, you pay as a member.
On Monday, January 8, 2024 we will be discussing Guest by Emma Cline. We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month, but this month, exceptionally, we meet a day earlier. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.
You will be sent the Google Meet link upon RSVP.
Suggestions for books to discuss in 2024 are needed. Please send to tonilin@aol.com .
The list of the books for January and February 2024 is included below.
January 8, 2024 The Guest by Emma Cline – 2023, 294 pp. From NYT review, “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force. And not just for her hosts, but for the novel itself.”
February 13, 2024 Moral Hazards by Tim Martin — 2020, 354 pp. The author, Tim Martin, will be with us to discuss the book. If you would like to buy a copy of the book, please let Toni know.
“A woman fights to protect the victims of sexual violence in the world’s largest refugee camp in Martin’s debut political thriller. … Martin’s prose is precise and powerful throughout this novel. …The deftly constructed characters help to give life to these issues while also involving readers in their particular plights.”
“A well-crafted novel that’s both informative and dramatically satisfying.” Kirkus Review
On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 we will be discussing Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.
You will be sent the Google Meet link or the physical address upon RSVP.
Suggestions for discussion in 2024 are welcome. Please send to tonilin@aol.com .
The list of the books for the rest of 2023 and January 2024 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.
December 12, 2023 Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout – 2022, 304 pp. – from Amazon,“NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
“Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR”
January 9, 2024 The Guest by Emma Cline – 2023, 294 pp. From NYT review, “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force. And not just for her hosts, but for the novel itself.”
This month we will enjoy the evening at Patio #378, on the ground floor of the Novotel Hotel. Please RSVP (link below) to make sure we have enough provisions for you.
The address of Patio #378 in the Hotel Novotel is Corrientes 1334
BAIN provides the hors d’oeuvres, you provide the fun.
Fee is 5000 pesos for members, 6000 pesos for guests. Yearly membership is 3000 pesos. If you join at the event, you pay as a member.
An important upcoming event — RSVP now: December 7, Holiday Dinner at Palacio Balcarce. Watch the BAIN Downtown website and your email inbox for details.
This month we will enjoy the outdoor patio at Kansas (in case of rain we will meet on piso 2). Please RSVP (link below) to make sure we have enough provisions for you.
Kansas Grill & Bar is located at Avenida Santa Fe 1946.
BAIN provides the hors d’oeuvres, you provide the fun.
Fee is 5000 pesos for members, 6000 pesos for guests. Yearly membership is 3000 pesos. If you join at the event, you pay as a member.
Some upcoming events so you can be sure to save the dates: October 28, Ladies Lunch; November 17, Wine & Tapas in Palermo; November 24, Strictly Social, probably at Olympo; December 7, Holiday Dinner at Palacio Balcarce. Lots going on. Watch the BAIN Downtown website and your email inbox for details.
Returning to a recent and much liked location, Amores Tintos. Join BAIN members, catch up, celebrate a beautiful evening, pay your dues, invite friends. RSVP so we are sure to have enough appetizers for all.
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