I finished The Fortress of Solitude yesterday; I got through it much sooner than usual. But don’t take that as me trying to rush you. Read it in your own time. And when you’re done reply here so we can get the discussion under way. Also, if anybody besides Coral and Maggie is reading Fortress, now would be a good time to let me know so that we can wait for you to finish and involve you in the discussion.
I’m excited. I have quite a bit to say about this book; I think it’s a great one to kick off the club.
OK, so I guess it’s just us for now, Maggie and Coral. I’ve thought about 3 books that might be good to kick this thing off. White Noise by Don DeLillo, Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, or Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll. They’re each on my “to do” list and I’m a big fan of the authors’ other work. I think any of them would be great picks for the book club. So what do you ladies think.
I highly recommend checking the books out of your local library. If you end up hating the book you don’t want to have shelled out actual money for it, right?
Any other readers who want to join in, please do. The more, the merrier.
So I was thinking: I know a bunch of smart, well-read folks and there are few things I like better than talking about a good book. Or even a bad book. I looked around for some local book clubs but they each had aims that were too specific for what I’m interested in. They were either women-only clubs clubs that only discussed science fiction or fantasy or romance or mystery or the “classics” or whatever. Well, I like to read many different genres. So I came up with the idea of creating my own book club. I tried to do this a few years back on RMP but it didn’t work out. Which shouldn’t have been surprise considering it was RMP.
So what do you guys and gals think? Would you be interested in participating in an online book discussion group moderated by yours truly? Maybe this idea is like a dream – only interesting to the guy who dreamed it up. But I really do think that we could have some good discussions. So let’s talk about it. If you are interested how would you like for it to work? I figured we’d use this blog for the discussions but if you have a better idea then I’m all ears.
This is something that I think could be really cool. Hopefully you think so to.
