Attendees: Callah, Denise, Lisa, Heather, Michelle, Raven, Rhonda, Tania, and Tina
Since Skippy Dies by Paul Murray was a bit on the long side I don't think many people wanted to read it. Lisa read about 500 pages of it and I read the whole thing. The overall impression of the book from both Lisa and myself was that it wasn't that great. We thought that he really could have condensed the story a lot and focused more on just the story of why Skippy died. We thought that the story was promising, but wasn't as engaging because he dove into a lot of different characters and what was going on with them. We thought that he was too wordy and used a lot of words that had to be looked up in the dictionary. We thought that the writing was really good, unlike 50 Shades! I also didn't like how I never got the answer of why Skippy died. I don't think that I missed that part in the book, but that is something I would have liked to know. Lisa and I both said that we wouldn't recommend it to others to read because it was too long and not a captivating enough story to want to pick it up and read it all of the time. Valesca, we are very interested to hear what you thought about the book!
Since there were only two of us that read the book the discussion was really short and we continued on to the more entertaining topics of the night, which were as follows:
-Denise and Rambo are like a grocery store these days! They make delicious food items and if you are lucky enough you can pick some up at their house :)
-Public school lunches/food. Callah said that the other day they were serving bean and cheese burritos for lunch, yikes!
-All of Rhonda's vacations
-Memory. Rhonda is convinced that she is going to get Alzheimers, but I'm not so sure!
-Rhonda & Tina's vacation. I think it's planned for the 28th-1st?
-Books & what we should read next
-Food and how this should be a food club instead of a book club
-SPANX
We decided for sure on one book (listed below), but because Michelle and I already read the book and since it was a fast read we decided on two books for this next month. Since I was the only one that read the book and because we couldn't decide what to read next I was given the task of picking book #2. Below is the information for the next book club!
When: Wednesday October 10th 7pm
Where: Rhonda's House
What we are reading: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and..........
Stoner by John Williams First, Tania I could not remember the title of the book that you recommended. I found some books about that "pilgrimage," but none of the titles sounded right to me. Perhaps we can read that book next time. The choice of our next book was between this and The Light Between Oceans. Both sounded really good, but Stoner had a little bit higher rating (both were in the 4 star range). Stoner is also only 288 pages and the shorter of the two. I also looked it up at the Los Angeles Public Library and Stoner has available copies, but the other book does not, which means there will be a long wait time.
I hope to see many of you there!
-Heather
