Pretty Paper Book Club: Corvallis, Oregon.
Alyce, Susan and Jandi
Susan
I started a book club almost two years ago, it has changed and morphed, but just gotten better and better. It has made it through the season where all my friends wanted to come just to hang out, and now only my friends who actually want to read and live in the area come. It is a perfect size now (not that we would ever not welcome other peeps!!) Alyce, a fellow book blogger from At Home With Books is local and is a member of the group as well!
I love it, we go out to eat first and just hang out, then we go to coffee and dessert and talk more and then talk about the books. We all love books, and most of the time we all read the book, our only fault is that sometimes we have a hard time getting (and staying) on the subject of the book we actually read. After we talk and discuss the book and are full to the brim we have been known to go out to a movie (if we can get that figured out) or over to one of the members house to sit and relax in the hot tub.
Our book club I think is a little different than most in that we actually are friends outside of book club, and our relationships go deeper than books. I love my local book club...it is nice to meet once a month for girl time, an evening to just hang.
This month we are going to read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, next month Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins!
Becky and babe 
Alyce & Susan
Susan & Jandi
I was there too, but I never end up in the pictures, bummer.
These are the books we have read so far in our bookclub, with links to my book reivews:
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Not reviewed yet)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not yet reviewed)
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
March by Geraldine Brooks
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
There are more books, but I'll stop there.
Is your book club as fun as ours????
August 10th, 2009 - 01:46
Thanks for sharing. I don’t belong to a book club, but wish I was.
August 10th, 2009 - 15:12
You should start one! I felt the same way and then started one, it was stressful in the beginning, now it is just delightful.
August 10th, 2009 - 05:27
I love book clubs, and just recently started one with Anna, our husbands, and a girl from work. Our first meeting was great–we discussed The Hunger Games.
This month’s meeting will be about Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery! LOL
August 10th, 2009 - 15:14
That would be cool to be in a book club with my husband. The only thing is we would have to find a babysitter for the boys. I actually enjoy having a night away with the girls though even better. I think it would be fun to have both, but I couldn’t give up the girl time!! It is too fun.
August 10th, 2009 - 05:43
This looks like so much fun. The baby seems a little young to have read some of those books you have picked out, but your other members seem very absorbed in the discussion! Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!
August 10th, 2009 - 15:13
Hahah! yes, too young especially too young for Half A Yellow Sun!
Glad you enjoyed the pictures.
August 11th, 2009 - 03:51
I am reading The Shadow of the Wind right now and am absolutely loving it. I can’t wait to hear what you and your book group think of it.
August 11th, 2009 - 10:32
This sounds wonderful. I belong to an online book club and would love to be in a real life one.
August 11th, 2009 - 19:27
Your group sounds wonderful! The book groups I’m in are fun, but, we never end up in the hot tub!
Before our move (2 yrs ago), I was in a much tighter book group. As you said, friends and doing things outside the monthly meetings, our kids all got along well and enjoyed spending time together, too. Still no hot tubs, but we made do
At the next meeting you should hand the camera off to another club member so you get in some of the pics!
August 19th, 2009 - 17:15
wow! That’s so cool! I am not a part of any book club
I have not many friends here, I am relatively new here! And I dnt know anyone who reads
But yours looks so much more fun, it is so great that you guys are friends also…
That’s an impressive list!