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[siercia]

Book club tonight, and it was even fun!

I felt like we had a great discussion of the book (Great Expectations). Or at least we all had strong opinions and thoughts about it, and I think most everyone liked it well enough at least. Then there was discussion of the movie they made of The Golden Bowl, which was our disastrous first book club selection that only one person even came close to finishing. I watched the movie kast night, and didn't much like it, and it was interesting to hear what was different about it than the book. Now that I have some idea of what the story of it is, I may actually try to pick the book back up, but maybe I'll just find something I actually want to read instead.

Next, we read Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I read it in college, but don't remember a thing about it. I'm looking forward to revisiting it. Hopefully, it's one of the books that got unpacked when we moved, so I won't even need to buy it.

I'm currently reading Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. It hasn't grabbed me the way My Antonia and O Pioneers did, but I'm not very far into it yet. It's not that long, so even if it never truly engages me, I think I'll finish it, and maybe even return it to the library on time. Not sure what I want to read after that. Thoughts?

Comments

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

Their Eyes Were Watching God is such a good book. I read it in my women in lit class.

It's all written in the vernacular so that makes it a little difficult to get in to...but once I acclimated to that, I really enjoyed it.

Definately.

I still have a copy if you want to borrow it.

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

Dave and Jenn Leggett swear by the book club. They meet lots of new people.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Erm, our book club just has 5 people in it and we already all know each other. :/

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

how about a seminal cyberpunk novel like snowcrash or neuromancer? maybe not for a book club, but interesting.

Heh heh

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Jenn swore she'd read William Gibson some day. I have them ALL lined up and waiting for her. :)

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I don't see why it wouldn't be for a book club. There's certainly as much to discuss in it as anything else. (At least Snowcrash. I haven't read the other.) Got to remember that some of the stuff we read as classics today are just the pulp of yesterday.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Over vacation, I re-read The Bone People by Keri Hulme. I had to read it for a college class, but the discussions we had about it sucked (I don't think the professor had read it). Some day I'd like to discuss it with somebody else who has read it.