Just a reminder...

...as you finish Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult, join our "book club" discussion. The link is on the left...We would love to hear from you.

And, in case you didn't know or forgot, when you leave a comment there is a box you can check that says email follow-up comments and that will, as it says, email you when others respond to that particular post. What a nice way to keep the book dialog open.

Happy Reading!

Welcome to the Lots to Read Book Club

As the title implies this is the beginning of the Lots to Read book club right here on the Lots to Read blog. WooHoo!

We (Cheryl & I) read and discuss here on this blog and want to encourage a bit of participation from our dear readers. One of us will pick a book, provide some questions and invite you to participate in the discussion. Of course you are always invited to comment on/ask questions of any book we review, these book club selection will just have questions provided.

As in any book club we will have a few guidelines:

• You must have read the book or attempted to read the book before participating (helps greatly with discussion!).
• There will be quite a few questions posed - you may:
• answer them all in order (honors student!)
• read through all the questions and answer only a select few (average student!)
• answer any of the questions you want in an essay format or great run-on sentence.
• ask your own question
• respond to others answers
• read the questions (or not), but write what ever you want including general feelings about the book...etc...
• as you may be able to tell this is a fairly relaxed format - participate and Have Fun!
• We may or may not answer the questions right away - please feel free to answer anyway!
• We may both read and comment on the book or not...
• We don't know how many book club books there will be, but never too many at a time - we don't want to overwhelm you or ourselves.

I think that is about it. Questions? Let us know!

One last comment - Remember that others may have different opinions than yours. The great thing about book clubs is that people read different things into books - they have different insights, different ideas and that is what makes discussions fun. If everyone loves a book or there is no disagreement conversation can get dull. As long as we are all respectful of each others views we will all enjoy ourselves!

Get reading and have fun!

Book Club Babes

Clarissa, Tracey, Nancy (w/Grayson), Jerrie & Cheryl

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Last night was our monthly book club meeting. We thought in honor of the holidays we would meet in pj's & slippers. It was a great idea ... and SO comfy! It was fun to see the pj's everyone wore (even if I did go the extra step in my ultra-cool tye-died shirt). This was also the first time Jerrie & I had met Nancy's 3-week-old baby boy, Grayson. He's SUCH a cutie!!! It was a nice night & we definitely thought it worthy of a picture.

If you like Sophie...

(Kinsella that is) you will love this book. Cheryl has been telling me about this book since she read it, then our book club picked it for the June book (due to an upcoming baby) so I picked it up at Target and read it in a day. I love a book you can read in a day, however that usually means the book is so good that I will be disappointed there isn't more of it to read and true to form that is exactly how I feel.
The main character in this book reminds me so much of Becky Bloomwood...So, seriously if you like 'the shopaholic' I think (know) you will like this one. Big thumbs up.

Go to the author's, Emily Giffin, website here...it is really cute.

I'm SO glad you liked this book SO much! I think it's been a couple of years that I've been telling you (and my mom & others) about this book. I LOVED IT! Heck, I bought it & for me, that's a huge endorsement. If you want a very satisfying, chick-lit type book, you can NOT go wrong with "Something Blue."

The Devil in the Junior League

I started reading "The Devil in the Junior League" yesterday & I'm really enjoying it so far. Coming from a blue collar background, I don't really 'get' the whole rich thing but I am enjoying reading about it. I definitely think I should get in one of the leagues though ... I could breathe new life into it ... HA! They'd kick me out as fast as they could, I'm sure.

This is also our May book club selection so Jerrie is reading it as well. Aren't you Jerrie? :}

Yes ma'am. I am reading this bookclub book. I am not quite as far, however, due to my laziness factor! :) I do think we should be in a league, maybe a 'League of our own...' Hmmmm.....I am the clever one!

"Midnight Champagne"

I'm going to start reading "Midnight Champagne" which also happens to be our book club book-of-the-month. I don't know anything about it other than the fact that I brought it. :) I'm hoping it'll be interesting & keep my attention now that the kids are back in school. Jerrie will be missing our meeting this month (she'll be in D.C. on vaca ... whatever) but hopefully she'll still read the book & give some input.