So we started out as a Book Club, and technically we still pick 6 books a year, but we only spend about 10-15 minutes of our about 3 hour chat sessions once every other month talking about the book.  We talk about clothes, movies, TV, our families, our jobs, and just pure gossip sometimes…and we are all okay with it.

I’m doing my Clues, Links, Thoughts out of order this time…you will soon see why…

“L”ink

A week or so ago, one of our “Club” members emailed us all this link.  It’s about a book club that read over 200 books in 17 years.  We all laughed…and then I decided I would write about our club.  Even if we try to have that many books, no one reads them all.  My mom is probably the closest.  She was a librarian though and has that librarian guilt that once you start a book, you need to finish it.   We have been together almost 10 years.  Had members come and go, but we are a pretty solid group these days.  Three of the ladies are around my mom’s age, four are around mine.  And we mesh perfectly.  Every once in a while someone misses … a cold, a sick kiddo, prior engagement, but we try to keep pick a day when most can make it.

“C”lue

So when I told the Club I was going to write about us, I asked for their favorites that we have read.  Some are the ones that every book club in America has read, some are not.  I’m sure there is a bunch that I have forgotten, but these are the ones that stuck out for the group.  Some we wouldn’t have read without the group, some that some of us still haven’t read.

Harry Potter-J. K. Rowling
The Help- Kathryn Stockett
Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn
Trust Your Eyes-Linwood Barclay
Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls
Various books by Jodi Picoult
Various books by Augusten Burroughs

“T”hought

Yes my mom was a librarian, yes I enjoy reading, no I don’t have time anymore.  I will when M is older…maybe…maybe not.  So I don’t usually sit down with a book in my hands.  That doesn’t mean I don’t like listening to stories. I get most of my books for club from the library for free and get them as books on CD.  I travel a lot for my job and this is one way I can actually finish the books we pick.  Errrr…I mean CDs.  Except for the last two…