So tonight I had book club, where we mostly drink wine and eat overpriced appetizers and laugh a lot, but we do actually discuss books (unlike my other book club where we only drink wine and laugh a lot, without the books). This time we all -- or mostly all -- read The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Now I have to admit I read this book several months ago, so I was kinda playing catch up with my bad memory to discuss it. But I really, really liked this one, and it seemed like it went over well with the rest of the girls in book club, too. It's a book that takes some getting used to. Not only is it enormous, and you have to get over the initial shock of how long it is, but then you need to adjust to the book's constantly changing perspective between Claire and Henry and all that darn time travel. Sometimes it was just plain hard to figure out who was talking and when... But figuring all of that out is SO worth the investment, and you'll probably be happy you did. Good book choice, Amanda!Word on the street is that our next book club book is ... The Lost Symbol!!! Yay! That's so right up my alley. I'm excited. Of course, I've had my name on the hold list at the library for a while now and I've managed to move up to number 751 in line. Unless we decide to hold our next book club in 2011, I'm going to have to break down and actually buy a book -- eek!
Good news is I just saw that my next reading list book is in, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, so I'll start that when I finish the book I'm already reading ... sooo many books!! :)
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