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Book club?


I've been wanting to join a book club in the area for awhile but the ones I've found either are a far drive for me or only read a genre I'm not terribly interested in. Soo...I was thinking...does anyone want to join a Pagan Porch Book Club!??! I've seen some online ones, but I think it would be fun to do this people that I already have a connection with.

I'll do the research and figure out how best to run it - unless anyone has any ideas. But I figure we agree on a book, discuss a certain length (chapter or something) each week in a thread.

I don't have a particular genre in mind. I think a general club would be great. We can choose anything from a pagan topic to a trashy romance novel! emoticon

Just looking at my reading list right now, I could make some suggestions (though I'm open to anything!):

I just started Toast: A Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
"Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry--rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits--we are transported.... His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper."

Basilica: the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's By R. A. Scotti

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe By Nancy Goldstone
"The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicentre of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe."

Water for Elephants By Sara Gruen
"A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town."

Just to give you a taste of my varied interests!

Anyone up for it?
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