Since I haven't been blogging the last couple of months, I haven't had the chance to talk about the book club that I am in... some of you might remember that I joined a book club started up by some women who live in my neighborhood about six months ago. This book club has been such a good thing! I used to love reading but I stopped making time for it (magazine articles are so much faster to read). I would make time to read pregnancy/parenting related books and of course, books for the kids, but I stopped making time to read for my enjoyment. This book club has changed that. We've read so many great books (some I enjoyed more than others but none ever really bad) and it's also nice to get to know new people.
We read one book a month and take turns hosting at our homes. It's has been fun because whoever is hosting usually tries to theme our snacks to fit the book. At our meeting today, we discussed the latest book, Water for Elephants, which is about life in the circus during the 1930s (a great book by the way, something I would have never picked on my own). Anyway, our hostess made caramel popcorn and had cute little popcorn bags, licorice, candy in boxes (like you can get at the movies and also the circus). Another person brought peanuts, and one even brought caramel apples! My contribution was a little less themed... those yummy cupcake cookies with frosting - but they were pink with sprinkes which felt circusy to me!
Last month, we read The Other Boleyn Girl to coincide with the release of the movie. We met at the theater to watch the movie and then had coffee afterwards to discuss the book and movie. The book was sooo much better (as is usually the case when there is a book and a movie) but the story in movie was so so different than what happened in the book. It's interesting because when we voted to read this book next I was thinking I wouldn't really like historical fiction but it was soooo good that I want to read all the books in the series by Phillipa Gregory! Another book we read was The Time Travelers Wife which comes out in the theaters this fall, which means another trip to the movies for our book club!
So our next read is The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. One of the girls in the club has already read it and said it is really good. I'm looking forward to another good read!
the red tent is one of my top 5's. awesome. trying to read the water elephant book :)
Posted by: jamie | April 16, 2008 at 03:10 PM
Reading for enjoyment, what is that? I haven't heard of that since about 6 years ago. Good for you.
Posted by: Jennifer N | April 05, 2008 at 12:28 AM
I miss reading for me too. I've just become lazy. Good to hear the other boleyn girl was a good read. I've been wanting to read that along with the time travelers wife.
Glad to see you blogging again! =)
Posted by: Christina | April 04, 2008 at 03:59 PM
I miss reading for enjoyment! So jealous of your awesome bookclub. I'll have to find one to join around here. I'm going to check those titles out, though :)
Posted by: Jenny Vu | April 04, 2008 at 12:12 PM
i'm so jealous, i wish i were in a book club like this... my best friend told me "the rent tent" was excellent also...
Posted by: gina | April 04, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Yay! My lil sis loves historical fiction! I have so many authors to share with you now =). LOL. Water for Elephants sounds great! Thanks for sharing! Keep it up so I have more books to read. You know I have nothing else to do right now.
Posted by: Tina | April 03, 2008 at 03:54 PM