{"id":9044,"date":"2017-02-21T21:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/novel-bunch-book-group-meets-monday-feb-27\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:41:02","slug":"novel-bunch-book-group-meets-monday-feb-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/novel-bunch-book-group-meets-monday-feb-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Bunch Book Group meets Monday, Feb. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Novel Bunch Group will meet at 2 p.m. in the Marvin Library Multipurpose Room (2nd floor) on Monday, February 27th to explore<strong><em> \u201cAntarctica: Life on the Ice\u201d (Travelers\u2019 Tales Guides) by Susan Fox Rogers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antarctica\u2019s legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from \u201cHappy Camper School\u201d to washing dishes to what it\u2019s like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoon when it \u201crained chickens,\u201d and Glenn Grant, who riffs on the dreaded \u201cpsych test.\u201d Some of the contributors are award-winning travel writers: Bill Fox, for example, leads a pithy tour through the remote base McMurdo, while Lucy Bledsoe tells of looking for krill and finding dinosaur bones instead. Other contributors are newbies, who vividly conjure the region\u2019s extraordinary sights, from gale-force winds and magnificent glaciers to mummified seals and charming penguins.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Author Susan Fox Rogers will be on campus Thursday, March 2 as part of Voices: A Library Lecture Series<\/em> to share her experiences living at McMurdo Station in Antarctica and on the ship Antigua in the Arctic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All are welcome!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Anne LaBelle at 629-7384 or <a href=\"mailto:a.labelle@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">a.labelle@hvcc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72230\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/LifeontheIce-1-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:41:02 +0000 by\u00a0v.waldin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Novel Bunch Group will meet at 2 p.m. in the Marvin Library Multipurpose Room (2nd floor) on Monday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}