I
am a giant fan of book clubs. I take offense to the idea that book club is a
time to drink wine and grip about men. For me book club is a time to have
intelligent conversations about books—at least for an hour—and then we grip
about men :) No, we don’t—we gripe about kids :)
I
love to hear what my friends have to stay about stories, because everyone has a
different perspective. Sometimes I go into book club with an opinion of the
book, only to change my mind after talking about it.
I
love book club so much that I’m belong to two. One I’ve been in for seven
years, and even after I moved away I couldn’t give it up—but I didn’t move far…only
6 blocks. The other book club is one I started in my new neighborhood—we’ve
been at it for two years.
I’ve
found that book club is the best way to get to know people. You can tell a lot
about someone by what they like and dislike in books.
So
does anyone else belong to a book club? Do you love it? Hate it? I’m so
curious.
-Angie
Books
I’ve read in book club this year:
Faith
Precedes the Miracle
by Spencer W. Kimball
Wildwood
Dancing
by Juliet Marillier
A
Room With A View
by E.M. Forster
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
A
Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Ella
Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn
65
Signs of the Times
by David Ridges
A
Girl from Yamhill
by Beverly Cleary
When
the Tripods
Came by John Christopher
Seven
Miracles that Saved America by Chris and Ted Stewart
The
Great Divorce
by C.S. Lewis
North
and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
The
Infinite Atonement
by Tad R. Callister
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The
Actor and The Housewife by Shannon Hale
Ender’s
Game by
Orson Scott Card
These
is My Words
by Nancy E. Turner
The
Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
The
Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The
Mansion
by Henry van Dyke
