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Comments (10)Omigosh, Jodi, if I didn't know you, I'd think you were making this up! (Oh, yeah--you have pictures, too.) LOL Seriously, what a wonderful thing you describe. Long-term friendships, getting together on a regular basis, sharing fabulous food, reading, discussing.....and wine! I'm surprised you haven't had scores of others beating down your door, wanting to join. Or maybe you have. Thanks for sharing this!...See MoreHow was YOUR Christmas - what did you get - did you have fun?
Comments (1)I had a very quiet Christmas, and just as well because it was a stinking hot day (35C at 7am!) and there was no energy to breathe, much less anything else. My son and his lady came for breakfast, the first of many visits they had scheduled for the day. This was just fine by me. I got them when they were full of Christmas spirit, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and by the time they left their appetites were ruined for everyone else's food! The best part of the breakfast was that THEY did all the cooking - I just 'supervised' and provided the food. We had a lot of fun and laughter together exchanging our little gifts, and when they left, I was able to recuperate by sleeping most of the day in front of the fan, or beginning to read one of the several books they gave me (from a list I'd prepared of Must Haves). My sleep was, however, disturbed by a number of phone calls from interstate friends, all very welcome. And in the evening a friend visited, ostensibly to watch Dancesport on TV with me (we are both into ballroom dancing), but mostly to escape her rowdy family at home after a mountain of a day. (She often uses my place as a refuge when things get A Bit Much.) In between these interuptions, I had the opportunity of watching all those silly little Christmas shows on TV. You know, Frosty the Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy and so on. I have a sneaking liking for these little things - maybe I'm in my second childhood! All very pleasant indeed, thank you....See MoreBook clubs: When the book stinks.
Comments (30)What makes me chuckle when reading this thread is how often book clubs are reading the same books. Fall to Your Knees, The Memory-Keeper's Daughter, Wicked, A Fine Balance (which I loved) Water for Elephants, etc. and I've noticed this in other bookclub-themed threads. My club is 5-6 years old; most of us make a sometimes herculean effort to finish the book out of respect for the person who chose it (though every book we read has been voted on) as well as knowing that the discussion doesn't have a snowball's chance of success if the book hasn't been read. Personally, I could not finish "Seabiscuit" to save my life as I kept falling asleep while reading it. "A Beautiful Mind" was our inaugural book and nearly did our club in as almost noone could finish it. "Wicked" was also an unpopular choice with a number of members not finishing it and so was almost impossible to discuss which I found disapointing. We all read "Crossing to Safety" and enjoyed trashing it, unlike most other clubs who loved it. By and large, our best discussion come when any or all of these factors come into play: most, if not all, members have read the book; the designated discussion leader has come PREPARED with questions, background info, etc.; the book actually has some meat to discuss (please don't ever make me read Sophie Kinsella again); and the book isn't universally liked by the members. My club just had a terrific discussion using "TMKD." Even though I didn't find it well-written, it resonated with our group and had some grist for the mill. So--yes, I usually try to finish up the book, even if it is just a cursory and skimming read. I also thought "The Little Children" was an awful book with flat characters and a nonsense story line and I would have to be "locked in" somewhere to re-read and discuss it. On the other hand, my clubs meets in restaurants for dinner and drinks and I have no doubt that some late nights, the restauranteur would like to lock us out......See More2022 Book Club Reading Lists
Comments (5)The format for our book group is based on this monthly reading thread: instead of choosing a book to read and discuss, we gather once a month to talk about what books we've read. It's interesting to see how many of us end up reading a book that someone else has mentioned. :) News of the World and Miss Buncle's Book have both ended up being read by almost everyone in the group. So our list is both long as well as a list of past rather than future reading: Matrix, Lauren Groff Piranesi, Susannah Clarke The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt, Gregory May Miss Buncle’s Book & Miss Buncle Married, D.E. Stevenson Ghost, Jason Reynolds The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander Newfoundland, Jim McFede All the Light You Cannot See, Anthony Doerr News of the World, Paulette Jiles A World on the Wing: Global Odyssey of Migrating Birds, Scott Weidensaul The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds, Jon Dunn Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold High Noon : The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey The Newton Letter, by John Banville The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles Seal of the Worm, by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Church Mice and the Moon, by Graham Oakley The Tempest, Shakespeare Measure for Measure, Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Buddhism for Dummies The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by JK Rowling Faithful, by Stewart O’Nan & Stephen King Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old, by Steven Petrow Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us On the Moon, by Ryan Walters Rock With Wings, Anne Hillerman The Four Graces, D.E. Stevenson Silverview, John Le Carre Abigail Adams, Woody Holton The Nation We Knew: How an Extraordinary Geophysical Event Reinvented America-- and the World, Steven Shepard The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson Watercress, Andrea Wang & Jason Chin Lavinia, Ursula K. Leguin The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien The Warmaster’s Gate (Shadows of the Apt series), Adrian Tchaikovsky America in the Twenties: A History, Geoffrey Perret Every Critter Has a Tale, Sue Coccia...See More- last year
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