GoodReads launches Book Club

An excellent choice to kick off a book club.

snow on wild mountain

Stormy weather here in the Sierra foothills. The good news is that unlike last year, we have not lost power. That's a big deal.
In other news, it's book club time tonight. Our book is The Girl Who Played with Fire. I'm just about to finish it. These are not my favorite books but I can get through them. Oddly, I always start wanting to go to Ikea. Has this happened to you, assuming you've read at least one these extremely popular novels?

Freedom to Read

Freedom to read whatever and whenever I'd like is something I admit to taking for granted. It's also something that is extremely important to me. It's mind boggling that people actively put their time and attention toward undermining this liberty.

Every year during Banned Books Week, I check out the annual list of books of challenged and banned books. On this year's list, there are at least three books that my neighborhood book club has read. We are hardly a subversive group! There are even some members who don't drink wine. Really.

Here are the dangerous books my book club has read in unknowing defiance of all that is good and pure and apparently American:

The Tortilla Curtain
The Bean Trees
The Glass Castle

These were good discussion books -- some of the group's favorites. While one or two in the group strongly disliked The Tortilla Curtain, none of us would want to take away the ability to choose to read this book from someone else. I'm going to take another look at this year's list and see if I can find more to suggest for the book group.