Book Club!

So I took a week off to travel to Saskatoon for two days and then to Calgary for five and during my stay in Saskatoon I not only got to go to a friends family wedding but also I got to join some of my old classmates for a book club meeting. Since I've moved back to Regina it's been pretty hard to stay in contact with most of my Saskatoon friends but occasions like these give me chances to re-connect with some of my dearest friends!

At book club we have taken up the tradition of all reading books we want to read, not forcing each other to read genres or authors we don't like. It's a pretty good way of doing it because we all have such vastly different reading habits that we would never agree on only one book to read.

Some of the books read included: This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel, Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, Divergent by Veronica Roth, Beauty Queens by Libba Ray, and Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich which I now have!

For my book club selection I read an old favorite of mine, Pride and Prejudice. The thing that makes it different is that I read an electronic version on my new Kobo that I got for my graduation! I've read the book a few times before and it always keeps me entertained with the humour, good writing and wit. Although it is one of my favorite novels I always end up disappointed by the situations these fictional women are in. Make's me very glad to be born in my time!

So just a short post but as I am currently writing this from the Saskatoon airport it will have to be. Have a great day!

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.