Meetup Cancellation

Hi Everyone-

With regret I must inform you that our book club meetup will be cancelled until further notice. I have tried to no avail to garner more interest in the club as a whole but with everyone's Spring schedules it's looking quite tricky. Although we do love the pleasure of our friend's company, it has been difficult to put so much effort into the actual meetup without having enough indication of who will actually make it. With all of this said, I will continue reading a new book each month and posting it here, in the hopes that you will read along with us. I would like to keep Book Club going in some form, but I'm unsure of how to make that happen. I am very open to suggestions. We've been reading together for a year. My vision last summer was to have at least a dozen people together once a month, whether it be at our apartment or at a coffee shop. I'd still love to see that happen. Please let me know if you have any questions, ideas, etc.

I've loved getting to know my new friends and I hope to be a part of your 2010. :)

Happy Reading,

Shylah

Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

For our Book Club, we just read another of Foer's books. I loved it so much and held it so dearly that I knew this book was next. The first 50 pages, just as I was told by others, were very difficult for me to grasp. The book moves in between past and present, and another present somewhere else, and letters. I was worried it would never come together. And then, suddenly, somewhere around the middle of the novel, I was enchanted. The book is incredible. I think I finished it in one week on lunch hours. Pure greatness.

Every time I remember that Foer was only 25 when he wrote it, I'm pretty miffed about my own shortcomings at my "advanced age". I highly recommend it this book.

For a long time I've been hearing what a great adaptation the movie is, and I'm looking forward to watching it, hopefully tonight.

greetings and such.

i used to have a little book club site. no one ever came by to visit me. so i'm moving it into another direction. this site will combine the Geek Chic site that was once found here., and additional thoughts on other books i'm reading, others are reading, and so on. i hope to have other contributors in the near future.

sometimes we hold local events. two dates you should begin to be aware of:

Monday February 15th- we are celebrating my husband's- AKA the Jake- birthday at The Flying Saucer pub at Huebner Oaks.

Tuesday March 2nd- our next book club. We are reading The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta.

Please check back here for updates, and delete the old site from your subscriptions/ rss feeds.

Much more to come here soon.

xxxooo.