Our book club is once a month. So far we've done two books and had two meetings and it's pretty fun! I even got to pick the book this last time, which means I got to host the meeting. (and by meeting I mean the wine and food party!)
Unfortunately our founding members...my neighbors two doors over...only have one more meeting before they are moving away. See how the Navy tries to screw me over...it's not even my family this time...but they are taking away some of the only cool new friends I've made here. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
But I digress....tee hee
The book I chose was Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill. (honestly I chose it partially because it sounded good, but mainly because I had a faint recollection of Eurydice talking about it...haha). It received mixed reviews from the club....and some people found it a hard read and didn't even finish it. I think in the end we all agreed it was well written and a good book, but the people that said they didn't like it were more disturbed by the subject matter than the rest of us. I found it a gritty subject but I like that. It seemed really real...even one of the hubbies that joined us (and hadn't read the book) thought it sounded like non-fiction.
I do understand what they meant though, because last month's book was My Sister's Keeper...and although it was also controversial in it's subject, it was a much easier hard-to-put-down read. That book I plowed through in a couple of days. This one I had to fight for three weeks...and only finished it the night before our meeting.
The next title we are giving a go is The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen. One of our members had it recommended by a coworker who said she couldn't put it down. We shall see. I picked up one of only two copies in stock at Chapters so it's not a hot seller...but I don't think that means anything. I did find it interesting that while Googling we found that they have YouTube videos about this book. hmmmm.
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I loved Lullabies and My Sisters Keeper! Both great books. I really need to find/start a book club of my own :(.
The GDT book club read lullabies and agreed it wasn't as great of a book as it was made out to be.
i have all of jodi picoult's book, except for her most recent...a couple were hard reads, but all are thought provoking and oh so good.
hmm, perhaps i need to find me a book club to get me nose into a book on a regular basis.
I didn't know that Lullabies had a rep for being a great book haha, I just truly enjoyed it. I love books with gritty, real subjects, that take place in Canada, and are narrated by children. Don't ask me why!
I remember looking at Lullabies and thinking about buying it...but then I didn't. Thanks for sharing your thoughts...I think I'm still undecided. :)
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