Reading Circle
by One of my girl friends recently hosted a reading circle at her house. Here's how it works: everyone brings a book, magazine, journal, etc... and reads an excerpt from it to the group. We discussed what was read only if/when we wanted to. This was a great format because no one is forced to read things they weren't interested in (like at a book club). Plus, you learn about new books to check out.
I was sold on:
The Sirens of Titan - by Kurt Vonnegut
You Shall Know Our Velocity AND A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - both by Dave Eggers
There was also this amazing book translated from Italian about Marco Polo's travels around China. I have to ask the name and author of it because I can't find it online.
If anyone's big on reading and would be interested in doing this, please let me know.
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I like circles
i don't need to....walk around in circles.
I've never read Sirens of Titan.... I must have missed that one.
you recommend it huh?
i haven't read it either, but it's on my list
yeah, that sounds good to me..... keep me posted please! Also, how come I dont get emails anymore about the book club?? :(
i don't know. i wasn't organizing it.
dude, that vonny book is good one. as for a heartbreaking work of staggering genius--weirdly, i've seen that title around and it's in my head often, but i don't know anything about it. what an interesting title. this cements that i must read it.
I'd love to do this if I lived closer!
I'm going to check out those Eggers titles; if you're into Vonnegut as well, I trust your opinion. I just checked, and our library has them in, so I'll check em out today.
I miss NJ!
awww yea the group of us that are big into books live a minimum of 20 mins apart and a maximum of 4 hours. we get together as frequently as we can, but sometimes that's months apart. our last bookclub book was slaughterhouse five-believe it or not that was the first of Vonnegut's work i've read.
His stuff is really great. Yeah, I've got no "booky" friends around here; I'll be reading a novel while Donovan reads a technical book about a programming language. :(
looks like somebody needs to show her face more in the book club forum!
Hahaha!
I've probably said this a million times, and you may have already taken my advice, but you've got to read Cat's Cradle and Mother Night.
i think you have! and i should read those. thanks for reminding me.
I enjoyed Cats Craddle but hated Slaughter House 5.
I borrowed the Eggers book from the library this afternoon. They had it in the non-fiction phsychology section, which piqued my interest, I admit. I just blindly thought it was fiction. I'm interested...