Last night was our book club for the discussion of Tinkers.  It was a very split opinion on the book three not having read or finished, another three who detested it and two (myself included) who loved it. My mother, who didn’t finish it (she’s a very bad moderator) brought along some bad reviews via […]

I just returned from my third meeting of my newly formed book club with the pick being Angela’s Ashes and included some new and return members.  All of us liked the book but both my mom and I had previously read the book didn’t finish it this time nor found it as riveting, although is […]

In my last post I brought up choosing books for future meetings by assigning “homework” to it’s members and coming up with a few titles themselves.  Well, we didn’t do that, this isn’t because the meeting didn’t go well, because we did get three new members but the last three from the previous month where […]

Tonight is the second meeting of our book club, and depending on how it goes i.e. the turnout we’ll open for compling a list for future picks.   If all goes well at the end of the meeting we’ll give “homework” to the group by choosing  a few book ideas to bring to the next […]

Last night, I had my first book club meeting held at my town’s local coffee shop.  I guess I should start off by saying how many people took the bait and showed up, (we plastered posters everywhere so had no idea what the turn out to be).  Well, to get back on track we had […]

My mom and I went down to the coffee shop today where we wish to hold our book club, and gave a presentation to the two owners of the establishment.  Here is what we came up with: My mother was elected moderator as she is the most outspoken and able to keep discussion going.  We […]

I am in the process of putting together a “real life” book club.  I am doing it with a few girls who work at a local coffee shop and will be posting a flier and also hosting it there.  This is being done for two reasons, A, I like to read and B, it could […]