Karen,

We'll all learn together unless someone has ever belonged to an on-line book club. If so, I hope they'll step up to help. We all might like to make some margin notes of things we'd like to bring up in a discussion. One thing we should probably all agree on is to not "talk" about the bookhere until the discussion is open in the Blogs Book Club blog. We should keep all the comments/discussion in the one blog.

That's too bad your local book club is exclusive! Maybe you could start an alternative club. The only exclusive ones I know of---and there a quite a few of them around here---are exclusive by the types of books they read, like a club that just reads mysteries or woman's contemporaires, etc.

Jean

The local women in the club - are serious, avid readers. They likely see some of us as ones who wouldn't take things as seriously as they do, and thus, no invitation.

I'm looking forward to selection day!

Hi Karen,

The hair on the back of my neck (ok, it's really fine hair!!) almost bristled just reading about your local book club. That is until you made the comment about the women being "serious, avid" readers...That said it all - a group of women who take themselves ENTIRELY too seriously wouldn't be much fun to be with for any reason!!! My imagination is going wild at thinking about those women meeting together to "discuss" their current book...Makes for a colorful movie in my mind since I've met some women who consider themselves just a little more qualified to belong to one organization or another than the rest of us!!! Somehow I see a roomful of women doing the "better than you dance"!!

I think our book club will be great fun!! That's what it's all about for us isn't it?

:giggle: :giggle:

Karen,

You now what I think? A book club should welcome anyone who is willing to read the book the group picks. People in this country don't read enough, a club could help make avid readers out of people if they aren't already. We may end up with our first book being one that I wouldn't read if not for a club, but I will do it because it's an exercise in expandng the mind to see how others react to the same material and to learn what life experience they've had that helped form those views.

Jean

Thought I would add a story about people not reading. My niece told me that a pizza company in her small town in Wisconsin offered a pizza to any child who read 15 minutes a day for a month. They published sheets to put down how much the kid read and the parent had to sign.

My niece's son who is now 12 is, and for years has been, an avid reader. He gets up an hour early so he can have an hour to catch up on his reading. Anyway, Kathy said she lied on the sheet because she figured if they only expected kids to read for 15 minutes a day, they would never believer how much time Salvador spends reading each day. He reads more that 15 minutes accidentally.

I think it is really really sad that people of all ages do not read much anymore. I love to read and always have.