A friend has asked me to speak to her book club this Thursday about one of my books, which they just read. I'll give you my thoughts on book clubs if I survive.
Your book club sounds pretty exclusive and full of cool people. I hope one day i’ll be cool enough to be in a exclusive cool book club like that one day…
Hey Will, great to hear about your book club. I’m in an online Fb club and for years have enjoyed the reviews from other readers. It’s different than a book club where we all agree to read one book and discuss it. We just read and write reviews and read others’ reviews to see what we want to read next. I have made friends within this group, from all over the world. Our club started with the goal of reading 50 books in a year. And most of us end up reading that many, sometimes more, sometimes less, but I love hearing about so many great novels and bios and non-fiction pieces that my world view and tastes have broadened significantly.
I’ve been in a book club for 7 or maybe 10 years. Long enough not to remember exactly. We’ve read mostly wonderful books and it IS all about carving out the time to hang with your friends and eat their delicious dinners!
Oh, and based on what I've seen, I think an excellent book club choice will be "The Complete January 6th Hearings," which I hope will eventually be sold as a boxed set along with the "The Trial & Conviction of Donald J. Trump for Inciting Insurrection, Obstructing Justice and Throwing Ketchup Against The Wall."
I love books, I love sharing them and talking about them and would love to be in a book club. The closest I've gotten is (as the host of this blog knows) taking a "Great Books" class at the high school he graduated from. It was a wonderful experience, both for the insights I gained from the discussions and the praise I got from the headmaster of the school, who ran the class. This praise caused a certain former writer for The Simpsons to call me a "teacher's pet," a title I wore with pride, especially because I knew it would drive the former writer for The Simpsons much crazier than if I tried to deny it. The host also knows that my wife (his mother) belongs to a book club, and that the husbands of the women in said book club decided they would meet at a local steak house every month on the night of the book club for what I called "The Men's Non-Book Book Club." This was a title the headmaster of the school (also a member of the non-book book club) loved, which drove the former writer for The Simpson (also a member) even crazier. We don't discuss books, but we do discuss politics and economics and we drink a lot of wine and get very loud. Probably louder than if we were discussing a book. And speaking of books, I heartily recommend "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a beautiful book of fiction that pays tribute to the importance of books (and libraries) as keepers of the history of peoples and cultures by interweaving three stories set centuries apart. Two thumbs up, five stars, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A friend has asked me to speak to her book club this Thursday about one of my books, which they just read. I'll give you my thoughts on book clubs if I survive.
Your book club sounds pretty exclusive and full of cool people. I hope one day i’ll be cool enough to be in a exclusive cool book club like that one day…
Mmmm, I dunno know, Jason.
Hey Will, great to hear about your book club. I’m in an online Fb club and for years have enjoyed the reviews from other readers. It’s different than a book club where we all agree to read one book and discuss it. We just read and write reviews and read others’ reviews to see what we want to read next. I have made friends within this group, from all over the world. Our club started with the goal of reading 50 books in a year. And most of us end up reading that many, sometimes more, sometimes less, but I love hearing about so many great novels and bios and non-fiction pieces that my world view and tastes have broadened significantly.
That's a great idea, Lee!
YOU are the great idea.
I’ve been in a book club for 7 or maybe 10 years. Long enough not to remember exactly. We’ve read mostly wonderful books and it IS all about carving out the time to hang with your friends and eat their delicious dinners!
Oh, and based on what I've seen, I think an excellent book club choice will be "The Complete January 6th Hearings," which I hope will eventually be sold as a boxed set along with the "The Trial & Conviction of Donald J. Trump for Inciting Insurrection, Obstructing Justice and Throwing Ketchup Against The Wall."
I love books, I love sharing them and talking about them and would love to be in a book club. The closest I've gotten is (as the host of this blog knows) taking a "Great Books" class at the high school he graduated from. It was a wonderful experience, both for the insights I gained from the discussions and the praise I got from the headmaster of the school, who ran the class. This praise caused a certain former writer for The Simpsons to call me a "teacher's pet," a title I wore with pride, especially because I knew it would drive the former writer for The Simpsons much crazier than if I tried to deny it. The host also knows that my wife (his mother) belongs to a book club, and that the husbands of the women in said book club decided they would meet at a local steak house every month on the night of the book club for what I called "The Men's Non-Book Book Club." This was a title the headmaster of the school (also a member of the non-book book club) loved, which drove the former writer for The Simpson (also a member) even crazier. We don't discuss books, but we do discuss politics and economics and we drink a lot of wine and get very loud. Probably louder than if we were discussing a book. And speaking of books, I heartily recommend "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a beautiful book of fiction that pays tribute to the importance of books (and libraries) as keepers of the history of peoples and cultures by interweaving three stories set centuries apart. Two thumbs up, five stars, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.