Dangerosa
09-03-2001, 10:19 AM
Inspired by jarbaby's response to my "must reads"
Three of mine, Byatt's Possession, Atwood's Robber Bride and Handmaid's Tale were books my bookclub read and were pretty much universally liked by the club.
Are you in a book club? What have you read that you enjoyed? Hated an no one got through? Also general book club info, format, etc.
My club is a women's group. We have know each other forever, and sometime after we all got done (pretty much) with college we formed a bookclub. We've been meeting for seven years. We talk about the book, we try for at least forty five minutes of our three hour meetings, and sometimes, when the book has been really impactful (hate that word, can't think of a better one right now, please forgive me), can't stop talking about it for months. When no one has read the book, we gossip and talk about kids and husbands and the past. We finish with dessert. Generally, there are about five or six people who show up, but about twenty members who rotate through depending on what their lives are like and what we are reading. We tend to read in "cycles"- three related books. So right now its detective fiction, first book: The Continental Op. We don't limit ourselves to fiction - we read (or tried to read, two of us got all the way through) A Brief History of Time, for instance.
Three of mine, Byatt's Possession, Atwood's Robber Bride and Handmaid's Tale were books my bookclub read and were pretty much universally liked by the club.
Are you in a book club? What have you read that you enjoyed? Hated an no one got through? Also general book club info, format, etc.
My club is a women's group. We have know each other forever, and sometime after we all got done (pretty much) with college we formed a bookclub. We've been meeting for seven years. We talk about the book, we try for at least forty five minutes of our three hour meetings, and sometimes, when the book has been really impactful (hate that word, can't think of a better one right now, please forgive me), can't stop talking about it for months. When no one has read the book, we gossip and talk about kids and husbands and the past. We finish with dessert. Generally, there are about five or six people who show up, but about twenty members who rotate through depending on what their lives are like and what we are reading. We tend to read in "cycles"- three related books. So right now its detective fiction, first book: The Continental Op. We don't limit ourselves to fiction - we read (or tried to read, two of us got all the way through) A Brief History of Time, for instance.