Book Club was wonderful last night--of course we knew it would be. Great friends, great discussions and great food. What better way to spend a Friday night.
The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas was a relaxing and enjoyable book after a very tense and emotional book in September. Our tradition has been to read a banned book each September in celebration of banned books. This year we read Sophie's Choice by William Styron. While the book had much to offer it was a heavy, emotional read. It was relaxing this month that the conversations, book and otherwise were relaxing and calm.
In addition to all the talking and snacking we put together a list for the next fifteen months of Book Club. Yes, not a year, but a year and a quarter. Seven members were in attendance this month, a rare treat since one of our members hasn't been at a lot of meetings this year. We each chose two books (14) and then the group chose a banned book.
I won't list the fifteen books here, you will hear all about them as we move through the upcoming months.
The first Friday in November we will be discussing We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. Over the years we seem to have read several by her, but no one is complaining.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Book Club Tonight!
Not only is tonight my monthly book club meeting, it is our annual planning meeting. We will begin with a draft calendar and our individual lists, then finish with twelve book picks for 2012. Several years ago we decided that planning ahead helped us to get the books we wanted to read and discuss. Some members get them from High Plains Library District, some from a book swap, and others purchase the physical book or get it on our Kindles.
The problem is too many choices. At most we will each add two books for next year. I have two pages of notes on books I would like to recommend and it has taken me all afternoon to narrow it down to four choices. Maybe I will be lucky and someone else will have picked some of them as well.
Yes, I could just read them anyway, and I do, but some books just demand to be discussed. Our membership has been pretty constant throughout the years, we have become friends not just members. An outsider would think that we get off track a lot, not so. The people and events in our reading calls up the emotions and similarities in our own lives. There are books that just must be discussed with fellow book lovers. It creates another deminision.
My list for tonight includes The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Share by Alice Ozma, Flaw by Magdalena Tulli and The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, translated by Cathy Porter. I don't know yet which ones I will actually choose as we put pen to paper.
Tonight we will snack as we discuss this month's pick--The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas. We will solve the problems of the world, reccomend the books we read this month, and plan a whole new year of books.
The problem is too many choices. At most we will each add two books for next year. I have two pages of notes on books I would like to recommend and it has taken me all afternoon to narrow it down to four choices. Maybe I will be lucky and someone else will have picked some of them as well.
Yes, I could just read them anyway, and I do, but some books just demand to be discussed. Our membership has been pretty constant throughout the years, we have become friends not just members. An outsider would think that we get off track a lot, not so. The people and events in our reading calls up the emotions and similarities in our own lives. There are books that just must be discussed with fellow book lovers. It creates another deminision.
My list for tonight includes The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Share by Alice Ozma, Flaw by Magdalena Tulli and The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, translated by Cathy Porter. I don't know yet which ones I will actually choose as we put pen to paper.
Tonight we will snack as we discuss this month's pick--The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas. We will solve the problems of the world, reccomend the books we read this month, and plan a whole new year of books.
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