It’s Book Club Saturday!
I know, I say it as if I’ve told you; like you should be as excited for this day finally being here as I am. As though we’ve been planning it for weeks,
But, go with me on this, because it’s new.
New as in, I am laying in my bed at 5:30am on this very Saturday morning, wide awake thanks to some wild cat sex going on in my front yard, when I decide that this Saturday, and every first Saturday of every month henceforth, should be Book Club Saturday.
We will pick books. And talk about books. And movies made from books. And probably a bunch of other stuff not really related to books because we also like to get sidetracked here sometimes.
Hopefully, if nothing else comes from Book Club Saturday, I will be able to start every month with a new list of books I can and should read when I have time (which I actually seem to have a bunch of since I find myself sitting in the car waiting for my children quite frequently these days with nothing more than a book and a talkative preschooler in the back to keep me company).
Last month we read Twilight. Personally, I can never really get enough of Twilight and have read that book at least 3 times. Maybe 4. I’ve lost count.
The natural next step would be to read New Moon. You know, revisit the entire series to get pumped before heading to the movie theater parking lot to tailgate with the teen fangirls (which you are clearly not one of despite your desire to act like it) this November when Breaking Dawn II comes out.
But, I really sorta hated New Moon. I mean, I loved it, because it’s part of the whole Twilight story and all, but I hated it. Even finishing it faster than the others so I could end the torture of it all.
So, I don’t want to read it again. Even though it makes sense. Even though it feels right. It just feels so completely wrong.
But, if I buck expectations and skip New Moon (which, for the record is what is happening here because my heart will not let my brain read that book again), I’m still left struggling over what to read.
Clearly this is where you come in.
First, you really need to go over to The Copia and join my group. You don’t have to buy the books on the site (or at all actually) to be involved (although they would totally love it if you would), just join the community and like, participate and stuff. Even if you’ve decided to not read the selected book, you can still weigh in on the scintillating conversations we are having over there.
You can just login with Facebook. Then, if you do want to read, you can do it on your computer, on your portable device, or you can kick it old school and go get the selected book from the store or the library or wherever old school people like to get old school stuff from.
Once you’re an official member, help me pick a book! We can go ahead and skip the heck outta New Moon and read Eclipse. Or, we can really get nutty and not even mess with the Twilight series anymore and instead, move on to The Host…
Have you read it yet? I picked it up ages ago, after finishing the whole Twilight series and still wanting to love on Stephanie Meyer. I remember it being good, but I don’t really remember exactly what it’s about. So I’m thinking I might want to brush up on the deets before the movie comes out!
Not really feeling the vampire-alien-human-love-saga right now? I get that. Vamp-love, and I guess alien-love for that matter, isn’t really for everyone. But, a mama can never have too much good parenting advice to ignore, so maybe we can go with one of these two parenting books I’ve been wanting to try out…
Or, if my suggestions are hideously bad (which may totally be the case), you can make an alternate suggestion for us (here on the blog or IN MY COMMUNITY ON THE COPIA).
But join my club, that’s really all I care about, so we can read together and maybe have some fun book wine Twitter parties where we can talk about why Robsten is all busted up. Or books.
LOVE this idea! Heading over to join now :)
Kerrie
http://familyfoodtravel.blogspot.ca
I can’t believe that she cheated on him right before Breaking Dawn Part II – what was she thinking? BAD PR move…..
Aaaaannywho…..I will join your club if anything just to add more books to my already running list of books that I aspire to read because I LOVE books and buy them obsessively and then…..don’t read them because I get wrapped up in so many other things….like watching bad television. So, maybe this will get me to shut it off. :-)
Here’s my problem with The Host- I liked it- but it took me over 300 pages to actually get into the story. That’s a long dang time to not be feeling a story.
I’m reading the second book in the Discovery of Witches series. I liked the first but the second seems really slow.
I’m not usually so dang picky. Will check out your community. I usually poke around goodreads looking for something new to read and it’s how I keep track of what I liked and didn’t.
I felt the same way about the second. I kept thinking, “just get on with it already.” I’m hoping the third one will be a little faster paced.
I’m currently reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. Hawwwwt! Not an easy read (because I get totally lost during LARGE parts of it) but it reminds me of an Enquirer from 100 years ago.
Yay! Im so excited about your book club! Ive actually never read that Stephanie Meyer book, so Im excited to try it out. Right now Im in the middle of Gone Girl, and I cannot put it down. Its so good!
I just started Gone Girl last night! Can you say at work with it on my lap under my desk (because that’s totally where it is!).
I liked the Twilight series and I read the Host again abt six months ago. They’re good. I’m bored now so im re-reading the Hunger Games, but not the sequels, only the first one was any good. I just finished The Calligraphers Daughter. Was very good and I learned a lot abt pre-war Korea. now I’m listening to Heaven is for Real. Pretty thoughtful stuff abt a toddler who died in surgery and came back to tell his family pretty amazing stuff. I’m also considering a Sci-fi series called Matched. It’s very popular in Utah, but I don’t know abt the rest of the country.
I joined your community and thanks to you I got obsessed and read the entire Twilight series AND watched all the movies. I can’t believe they split Breaking Dawn into two parts. So, a good book I read before doing the Twilight speed read a thon was The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty. It is a notch above Twilight (imho) but totally can’t put it down!
I’ve never read Twilight. No interest whatsoever. Never even saw the movies (I did try to watch the first one about two years after it was made but I fell asleep a half hour in). I’ve joined the community, though, and will read whatever y’all choose. I guess. If you make me.
I’m reading this vampire/love/action series now that I’m kind of digging. It is the Night Huntress series. It is WAY more grown up than Twilight (as in there are two to three super hot sexy scenes per book), but it also has a kick butt heroine. I like women that kick a little (or a lot) of ass.