Book Club is tonight---at my house. Please come! We want some more fun people. The more the merrier! If you actually know me---you will be able to call me and find out what time! We will be discussing Emma, by Jane Austen. You are invited even if you haven't read the book. Tonight we will be choosing the books to read for the next few months.
I love book club. I don't get as much reading time as I want lately. But, that is part of being a mom sometimes. There is always more laundry, school, meals, cleaning, etc.---to do, but I at least like to read one book per month. Book Club helps me do that. Our book club has been reading "the classics" mostly. You know----all of those books you have heard of, but have never read! Those.......... I am still baffled that I graduated from High School and College with honors, but without reading MOST classics. I don't know how that happened??? I feel like an "educated" person should be well-read. I took this into my own hands a few years ago and started to "educate" myself with some GOOD reading. It has been an amazing journey, and very enjoyable! I loved Little Women, Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, The Secret Garden, Christy, Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Pride and Prejudice.........the list goes on. My "classics" reading began in 2006, and it is still going. Back then I thought it would be impossible to get through the many lists of recommended books on my reading "wish list," but in retrospect it is AMAZING how much can be read in one book a month after a few years go by! I feel smarter, if that's worth anything. I have noticed little funny things used in pop culture that come from classics too. So now I can get in on some of the "inside" jokes, for whatever that is worth.
Reading is just good for me. I don't want my brain to waste away with the laundry and dishes. I want to stimulate my children's minds, and so I had better be stimulating mine!!!!
Come to Book Club!!!!!
5 comments:
it doesn't happen to be at 6 does it? I wish, I love that book. have fun tonight!
I was just having this conversation with Jessica Perkins the other day - how the heck did we get through high school & college without reading classics?! You're good - I wish I could read them - I've tried with no success. Book club sounds fun!
You are invited Marcie!
I know I'm a day late anyway, but wish I lived closer so I could come! Sounds like a lot of fun. I find myself checking out classics and only getting half of it read before it's time to go back to the library (sigh). Oh well, half of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Anna Karenina, and The Grapes of Wrath has got to count for something!
wow, what a great motivational speach. which one should i start with? perferable one that doesn't start out slow :)
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