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I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on Tuesday 17th November at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new. If you’re looking for something to read: How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions by Jeff Maysh. The head of security behind McDonald’s Monopoly quietly handed out nearly every winning piece for twelve years, until the FBI caught on. Inside Quebec’s Great, Multi-Million-Dollar Maple-Syrup Heist by Rich Cohen. The most Canadian crime ever: thieves siphon millions of dollars of syrup from Quebec’s strategic reserve, one barrel at a time. Upon This Rock by John Jeremiah Sullivan. A writer rents an RV to cover a Christian rock festival and ends up adopted by a crew of guys from West Virginia. The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie by John Jeremiah Sullivan. A musical detective story about two blues singers who recorded a handful of masterpieces in 1930 and then vanished. Consider the…

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