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April Meeting in Albuquerque Journal
publicity hounds:  Blackledge, Gilbert, Genoni, Easterling

Founded in April 1993 by the wayward yet literate descendant of destitute Russian immigrants, LTBC is a collection of mildly mature males meeting monthly within the confines of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA, with endangered and rare Field Trips to the outside world.  Our founder insisted we select and judge our reading material based on five inviolate criteria:  universality; insight; use of language; appeal to emotions; content.  Our founder is no longer with us.  primarily we currently consider the size of the dessert portion at risk.

We are the proud guardians of The Streak.    We are the keepers of  The List.   We are the Last Thursday Book Club.



Our current book selections are indicated on the LTBC Meeting Schedule for calendar year 2006.  Membership in the LTBC is limited to a total of twelve potential apostles, plus or minus.  Applications can be submitted to any member in good standing.



Revised in late A.D. 2011 and now available to the general public - the list of Top 200 Books as selected not by some elitist "Modern Library" committee, but by the arguably objective Last Thursday Book Club.
Quite a literary dilemma ... so who ya gonna believe:  Bennett Cerf's kid or a bunch of shamelessly self-promoting mostly-retired yahoos from the Rio Grande valley?
{Hint on how to answer the rhetorial question:  we also feature non-fiction, non-English authors, and non-20th Century novels in our list ...}
 




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Books On The Coffeetable:  A collection of other people's recommendations and thus possible future reading selections.

Awards

1]  The LTBC is one of only two book clubs honored with an inscribed rock at the base of
the Children's Peace Memorial currently located in Santa Fe, New Mexico -
although we are not officially on record as being supportive of peace.   Or children.
The Memorial can be viewed at the  Plaza Resola,
401 Old Taos Highway, Santa Fe, New Mexico (505.982.8539).

2]  The LTBC is the proud guardian of The Streak.  Our own Tom Genoni
holds the unofficial national Book Club record of maintaining perfect attendance:  all Last Thursday Book Club meetings, starting from the founding meeting of April 1993 down to June 2003:  10 years plus two meetings.  This includes all Field Trips,1 all summer meetings, and even on one heralded occasion necessitated his returning from the East Coast memorial services for his mother-in-law to keep The Streak alive.  The fact that he sometimes watches NASCAR, women's billiards, and poker events and never actually completed the reading of Magister Ludi bears no relevance on his otherwise unblemished attendance record.

3]  The LTBC is one of a select 100 book clubs featured in
The Book Club CookBook
now being expanded in a Second Edition for your reading and eating pleasure.  
We have donated most of our royalties from this work to The Children's Peace Memorial.


1The Credentials Committee has determined that the abortive field trip to Taos New Mexico in October 2000 did not constitute an actual Book Club meeting in that (allegedly) only one member participated.

Darwinian Consequences:  4-30-2009
(current 2010 members above, standing:) Blackledge, Duff, Gilbert, Easterling, Palmer
(seated)  Gillen, Genoni, Jensen, Bousek
(missing) Ferrell, Nash, Woods

LTBC Offices for Calendar Year 2010 anno domini

Founder & Former Northern New Mexico Trip Director:    John Beresky, R.I.P.
Poet Laureate:   Keith Gilbert
Club Sculptor:   Don Tubesing (Middleton, WI) 
as viewed below:  Old Club Members Never Fade, They Just Read Away -
Nancy, Don, Mike, Bonnie:  August 2010
Old Members Never Fade

Our Once and Future Pulp Fiction Filter:  Ben Smith - we love him yet
Our Once and Future Profanity Philter:  Don Benoist - we honor him still

Political Correctness Monitor:  Tom Genoni
Plot Contrivance Sensor:  Mike Blackledge
Rookie Bookmark:  Bob Simon (sponsor: Charlie Palmer
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Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota Climatologist:   Don Tubesing
Former Chief Recruiting Officer (CRO) and current California Liaison:   Gary Ganong
Secretary/Webetary:  Mike Blackledge
Our hero: 
Lance Armstrong

LTBC Home Page last updated 2 January 2012