I’ve gone and done it. No I haven’t cut all my hair off. Or gotten a tattoo god-knows-where. Or sold all of my worldly belongings to join a cult. But it is something that I have never done before and now I've gone and done it. I joined a book club. Really, I've joined the Book Club.
Anyone who knows me knows that I read a fair amount. And I am not really a book snob -- although I do draw the line at Romance, that genre just leaves me cold. Well, actually it's rather like porn-for-girls and in that regard actually quite steamy at times, but all that story stuff they put in between the sex scenes can be horrifically tiresome. I pretty much will read almost anything that isn't Romance (and, in hard times -- those being when I am out of materials, ahem, I have been known to dip into a Romance, but they're not my choice. Plenty of other books offer sex scenes without the tedious story lines). Anyway, I pretty much like most stuff (spy thrillers, murder mysteries, chick lit, etc. etc.). So I figure getting together with like-minded readers over a few bottles of wine to chat about books -- it's bound to be a win-win.
My introduction will be in a few weeks and we're reading The City and the City. I'll let you know how it goes. In the meantime, feel free to peruse Shelfari for my recent reads.
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Snap! Me too! In face, I am a founder member of a book club (though can take no credit for the initiative or the organisational effort...).
Our first meeting is on the 26th and I'm hosting, which means that (gulp!) I had to choose the first book. Oh, the pressure! It's One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and it's heavy going... :/
"In face"?? D'oh! That should read "in fact", obv...
Jo, 100YoS is a fantastic book! It's definitely in my top 100, maybe even my top 10. :)
We'll have to compare notes post-meetings. And I'll let you know if The City and the City is any good. Starting it tonight (had to finish what I was already reading first).
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