We are coming up on our book club anniversary. It's usually at Tina's house. Tonight I hosted for a change. Instead of talking about the book for an hour, babbling about nothing for a half hour and taking two hours to pick the next book this is what we did...
We talked about the book for about 8 minutes. We ate brie and crackers, fruit and croissants and made fun of how fancy we got with the snacks this time. We discussed PMS, motherhood, babies, women on scooter thingies and parenting. We talked about yelling, apologizing and crying in front of our children. We vented, we giggled and poked fun at our lives. We did this for 3 hours.
In our defense we did pick the next book rather quickly and even set up a plan of attack on discussion questions for next time...well, sort of. That was before coffee and rainbow cookies.
Our group of 6 (the size fluctuates depending on availability) must have needed something. We usually stay on task a bit better than this. Not a whole lot better...but we at least try. This time we really just kept talking and venting and listening. There might have even been a tear or two. Our group has been very busy lately. The monthly meeting was bumped quite a bit and some missed the last Borders night so we were a little behind on everything. Catching up on our own lives seemed to take priority over discussing the characters in our book. Laughter and sharing bumped the plot of the twisted tale we had all read. Though we all liked this book and found the story interesting...I guess it couldn't hold a candle to a night of real friends and the follies that follow them.
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