If You Belonged Here

Hey, Bookclub!

Go ahead and watch the video preview now, I'll wait.

 Our next book is "Foreskin's Lament" by Shalom Auslander. Discussion, to be lead by Alice, will be held on Thursday, April 22nd.

Of this year, people. 

You can imagine that Alice is just beside herself, especially since there's also a rumor that Mr. Auslander himself just might stop by and roll his eyes at our comments. At which point, Alice will lose her mind.

For those of you with kindle, go ahead and download it now. The rest of you should know that amazon is practically giving the hardcover's away for even cheaper than the kindle or paperback price. And whichever one of you lurker types delurks and sticks your hand out first, we'll totally send you the book for free. Just one of you, though. Because we need to save some of our spare change for lattes and pedicures.

Begging the Question: Why, Bookclub, Why?

Well, there's this: I read the book and I am sure that whoever bought the movie rights made a sound investment. This book will be a fabulous movie. And young people may even enjoy the read.

Actually, there was a whole lot more, but if you didn't get here in a timely fashion, well, there's a whole lot less now. You'll get the gist from the comments. Which I may delete later. We'll see.

 

  

Bookgirl is Attending Vampire Academy

I know we promised this discussion for yesterday, but I wanted to give you an extra day to build up the anticipation. To whet your appetite so you were just DYING to talk about teenage vampires. Did it work?

Yeah, that's a lie. You all know me better than that. Actually, life has been kicking my butt, and yesterday's conversation went something like this.

Polly: "Bookgirl, do you have the book club post?"

Bookgirl: "Huh?"

Le sigh.

But I'm here now. And you know what they say: better late than pregnant.

On to our vampire friends...

For those of you just coming in, our first book club selection is Vampire Academy by Richelle Meade.

Rather than doing this as a traditional post, I'm shooting for more of an interactive format, so keep checking back. But that also means you have to participate. Or else this is just me talking to myself about books. Which is a lot like what my work day looks like.

As previously mentioned, I loved, loved, loved this book.

The kindest thing an author can do for me as a reader is create a world. Make me believe in it, visualize it. Enroll me completely in your vision. Populate it with characters I care about passionately. Then bring them back for more books so I get to keep visiting them.

And that's exactly what she's done.

I love the author's portrayal of Rose as a kick-butt warrior instead of a damsel in distress. And even Lissa, who IS more of the damsel in distress character, can still hold her own and pull out a can of manipulation whoop-ass when she needs to, thank you very much.

Can we take a minute to talk about the romances? All those dark, broody vampires. Dmitri. That's all I need to say. Dmitri. I actually asked friends which book they finally make out in. Because I Could. Not. Wait. As for Christian, I love a bad boy with a good heart.

Everyone weigh in. What did you like? Dislike? Any questions you want to pose to the group?

Discuss.