Excited About Book Club

Last night was great because I got out of the house without either of my children for two whole hours! Yay. It was a much needed break to help me be a good mom. I have been pumping a little bit this week after Ivan gets done eating so that I would have enough to leave behind for one feeding so that Aaron could feed him and I wouldn't have to come rushing home. Where did I go for my two hours of freedom? Our ward Book Club. Ya, I'm a nerd, get over it. I love book club.

The meeting last night was a get-together to plan all the books we are going to read each month for the whole next year. So basically the plan was that you come with a few books that you like, and you present them to everyone, tell them what they are about, why they're good, etc. And after everyone has presented their books the group votes on which ones are in for the year. It sounds simple, but it's not. I bet by the time everyone was done presenting (some people presented like 20 books, I just did 3 and thought that was fair, I wish everyone would have been limited to like 5 or something it would have made the process easier, oh well.) there were probably about 200 books to choose from, then they stuck them into categories (i.e. fantasy, non-fiction, Christmas, children's, literary fiction, etc.) until there were 12 categories and then we voted in each category for what we wanted to read. But some categories were huge and had a lot of books people really wanted to read, and some were small and didn't really have any books anyone wanted to read, but for some reason we had to stick to the categories, which didn't make sense to me. If no one wanted to read any of the books in a particular category, then why bother with it, just pick something from the other category where there were multiple books of interest. But whatever, I wasn't in charge.

Anyways, when it did finally come to a close after much debate and lots of talking and chatting and eating and trying to get people not to recommend anymore books after the initial recommendation period, we came out with some I'm really excited to read, some I've already read, and some I'm not all that thrilled to read, but that's ok. Here is the list, as well as I can remember it.

Ella Enchanted
A Thomas Jefferson Education
1776
The Zoo Keepers Wife
Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
The Portrait of Dorian Grey
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Phantom of the Opera
Skipping Christmas
A Stranger for Christmas
The Little Prince
The Last Lecture


And that's all I can remember right now, but there are at least three more (we did 14 months worth). So I've got some good reading to look forward to this year. Yay. Not to mention my own private list of things that I want to read. I guess I know what I'll be doing while Aaron does his homework all summer long. :)