A New Book Club is Born!

Hi everyone! I'm so excited about helping get this book club off the ground. For those of you who are interested in participating but could not make our first meeting last week, here's a bit of what we discussed. First, we decided to meet monthly at 7:30 on the 2nd Wednesday of the month (the only Wednesday, as far as we could tell, with no conflicts). We discussed a large number of books and decided the best way to pick from all the titles thrown around was to post a poll on the blog and let everyone vote for their favorites. Then we'll take the top choices and make a schedule for the next six months. Hopefully this will give people a chance to plan their reading and get their books in time.

Speaking of which, we selected The Help by Kathryn Stockett as our first month's book, and hoped to be able to discuss it at the next second Wednesday, which was only two weeks away. Well, there are presently 38 holds on 1 copy at the local libraries and copies on Amazon are not extremely cheap yet, so it may take a little longer for everyone to obtain and read a copy. A little booksharing may be helpful if you have a copy you'll finish with soon. Anyway, so if it's all right, I think we'll give ourselves a little more time and plan on discussing The Help next month on May 11th at Kindra Fairhurst's house. It's too bad it's so far away but I hope that will give everyone the chance to read it given everything else they have going on. Again, if you have a copy of the book you wouldn't mind lending, I think many people would appreciate that! :)

So enjoy reading The Help. Don't forget to vote on the poll at the right AND...many of you not at the meeting may have other suggestions (and I'm sure I've forgotten several that were discussed), so feel free to post a comment or send me an email of additional suggestions and I'll get them added to the poll right away. You have one month to vote!

Happy reading! :)