Book Club

I, like a lot of others in this world, belong to a Book Club. My Book Club is made up of my past classmates from the Library and Information Technology Program.  We may have similar interests, but we almost all differ in our reading interests, so our book club is quite unique. 

It's unique in the sense that we don't all force each other to read things we know others have no interest in, and so what we're really participating in is a form of "Book Talk" group. We all individually pick a book, read it for the designated day and then come together and share all of our different reads. It's quite an interesting thing to participate in, because I may not have thought I had interest in a specific genre or author, but after hearing one of my friends gush about it maybe I'll go and pick it up.

It's also an opportunity to come together as a group and just sit down and have fun and not worry about our hectic lives or our families. We may not see each other very often, but when we do that time is special and so much more appreciated than if we saw each other every day.

Our next Book Club is tonight and I had not thought I would have had a book read for it, but I sat down for a few hours Thursday night and actually read a book!

Tomorrow I’ll post my summary of the book and my thoughts on it. The novel is called I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.