Book Club

I especially want to update about Book Club. Book One was quite a challenging read, Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens. When we chose the book, we didn't realize that it was also recently released on PBS. Talk about an added bonus! After reading a book the size of The Holy Bible, it's good to be able to see the film version. I haven't watched it yet, but I have it in the Netflix que to be sent soon and am very excited about seeing it. It was a very enlightening book, even if it was difficult to read. The Marshalsea isn't something that I was familiar with, so that, coupled with Dickens prolific use of characters--omg, there had to be at least 200 characters in this book, and I'm only slightly exaggerating--made for a very serious read. I can honestly say I would not have read the book any other way. Along with Dorrit, some of the book group also read My Antonia, by Willa Cather (one of THE best books I have ever read..made me want to high-five Willa Cather), and also The Memory Keeper's Daughter, of which I can't remember the author's name. I was NOT impressed with the book which is probably why I can't remember the author's name. Hated the book!
Since the hostess for the next meeting chooses our new novel, we received our latest read at last week's meeting! I'm very excited to get started on it, but I think it will be a much faster read than Dickens...haha, ya think? I could read the Encyclopedia Volume J faster than I read Little Dorrit. I am afraid of finishing the new book too soon, so I'm holding off on starting it until a bit closer to our next meeting. In the meantime, I have picked up The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton. If I'm honest, it appealed to me mostly because of the cover. Yes, I judge a book by it's cover. So shoot me! I'm thinking I'll start it in the meantime. Several book club gals have picked it up also, so we'll have something else to talk about in the time between, along with the new book. Oh, our latest title? I almost forgot! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Heads up, it's an epistolary! Can't wait to read it.