Book Club

[syzygy_dw]

I'm in a book club. We get together once a month or so, discuss books and eat. It's a good arrangement. I like these women, we have fun when we get together, and the books we pick are usually really great.

But I have a confession: I can't remember the last time I finished one of the books.

In my defense, the last one was huge. It was supposed to be a summer read, but I got it about three weeks before the September meeting, and despite dedicating every free moment to it, I didn't even make it one quarter of the way through.

I don't sit around reading as much as I used to. Time was, I could go through three or four books a week. But now, if I pick up a book, it's because I really want to read it. While the book choices we've had with the book club have been great, I guess having a deadline imposed on my reading is making it feel too much like work. I put down a book I was really enjoying so I could read the book club selection. I think I may resent it just a little bit.

Maybe I just have a short attention span. Maybe if we had a movie-watching club...

Comments

Re: Books

[nonelvis]

I've read Love in the Time of Cholera, but it was so long ago I don't remember any of the plot. I remember liking it, though, since I always like Garcia Marquez.

I haven't heard of Memoirs of Cleopatra. I suggest renting the Rome DVDs instead ;-)

Re: Books

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

I'll probably do that anyway, and I will finish Cleopatra someday. (Probably someday waaaay in the future.)

The most ironic twist to this whole book club thing: I work in a bookstore, and I can't finish a book!