Book Babes

One of my book clubs met tonight. We've been meeting for more than 8 years, and in that time we've gone through a few permutations. One of the things we do really well is work together to figure out how best we want to run our book club. We've fallen into a pattern where the host speaks first, explains why they chose their "text" (can be book, poetry, movie, magazine or just a good topic for that matter). Then we go around the circle and each of us comments, or comes clean about not having read the book (no judgments, gosh I love this book club). Discussion ensues for as long as needed until we've exhausted our text discussion and have drifted to family, politics, work, whatever. One last thing about our meeting tonight: our host, Robbie, often delights us with a theme, often based on the geographical setting of the book. Tonight we had treats from Norway and Sweden. I couldn't pronounce most of it, but enjoyed it all nonetheless.