First Rule of Book Club: Don't Talk about Book Club.

In the fall, I gathered half a dozen of my favourite girl friends who like to read and started a book club. The idea is to read one book a month for the duration of 2018. We all started off by submitting a list of 5 books that we had on our shelves, heard was good or always wanted to read but never got around to it. I then compiled the full list - in case there were any duplicates - and that is the list of books we will choose from for the rest of the year.

A host is chosen each month, myself being January's (to start everyone off with no pressure), and that month's host is responsible for selecting the book. The first two host and books, for January and February, have been chosen and each host is then responsible for holding a meeting or gathering at the end of the month. At the meeting in January, March's host and book will be selected, and in February we will draw for April's, and so on, so that we'll always know which book is coming next.

I'm looking forward to interesting discussions and perspectives from each member, as each lady is very unique and has different likes and dislikes, backgrounds, jobs, hobbies and lives. The idea is to broaden our reading horizons. To pick up and read books we never would have imagined we ever would.

I can't wait to find out what everyone liked or didn't like about each book. Thoughts that arose, perspectives they'd never considered and ideas that expanded their minds and made them think. The books in the list are wide ranging from fantasy and science fiction, to crime and mystery, to even children's literature and dystopian. We all have different libraries of interest.

We even came up with some rules regarding our book club to keep us all accountable:

1. Don't talk about Fight Club, I mean, Book Club.
2. You don't have to finish the book by the time the gathering happens, but it would be good if you did.
3. If not finished the book, at least be prepared to talk about it and beware of SPOILERS.
4. If you don't like the book or can't get into, that's okay; you're not obligated to finish it. However, still be prepared to discuss it. What you didn't like, or why you couldn't get into.
5. Meetings will be potluck at someone's house, unless we all agree to a different format.
6. HAVE FUN! HAVE FUN! HAVE FUN! HAVE FUN! HAVE FUN! HAVE FUN!

Of course, I am still continuing with my current reading challenge while participating in Book Club. There will even be posts about book club books! I'm very excited for ALL THE BOOKS. (You have no idea.) I am not going to post the list of books that we came up with. Readers of this blog will just have to wait and see which books were read each month when I post!