So far we are on track to have 12 picks for 2012---the first year our bookclub didn't skip a month at some point. Summer is the biggest challenge, so I think we have a good chance to make it to 2013. We didn't take any photos at Marva's last gathering or CeCe's but both were great nights. I loved the large group sitting around chairs under trees at CeCe's and the small circle of us talking till 11PM on Marva's patio.
According to our book list here, the rest of year's picks go in this order:
Mindy -August: The Lonely Polygamist
Nicole - September
Nicole - September
Tara? - October
Natalie - November
Beth - December
I'm not sure if Beth will be in Moab and whether she or Tara still want their spot. Please send an email to the group if you don't want your spot, so that we can get someone to take it with plenty of notice. At the gathering at my place in April, we revisited the notion of growing the group to include more people. Liz had a great suggestion that whomever is hosting be able to invite someone so that the group would grow slowly rather than all at once. Perhaps more thoughts on this at Mindy's.
Lastly---some random book recommendations. Jenny Chatwin (our long-lost leader---boo to moving, Jenny!) posted one of the opening lines of Let's Pretend This Never Happened: "High school is life's way of giving you a record low to judge the rest of your life by." I recognized it because I just picked it up at the library today. I swore I wasn't going to read it after hearing too much hype about it---and because I read too many memoirs anyway, but I ended up laughing loudly at the library while just glancing at it, so it came home with me. Hilarious. Also, The Art of Possibility was another random library pick last month and a great one---by Benjamin Zander, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Symphony. His TED talk can get anyone excited about classical music and leadership/change in general.
What else have you been reading?
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I am reading, "Far From the Madding House" by Thomas Hardy. My dad wanted to do another book club in Florida this November. His last pick was "Emma." He is a classics kind of guy. It is much easier to read then I dreaded. Some of the descriptions are just great. I am actually into it!
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