Garden Gnome

I belonged to a book club for a couple years, finally quitting because the time of the meeting was inconvenient for me.

My opinion on book clubs: Yes, sometimes you "waste time" reading something you didn't really want to read. But I found it really opened my eyes to other lifestyles and circumstances, making me think about things I could easily avoid otherwise. I often need to have an incentive to finish things, even books. (even quilts) If I know we're going to be discussing it next week, I'll push myself a little.

Rose_P

I do agree with Garden Gnome about the deadline being an incentive, and also about the broadening effect of reading things you wouldn't necessarily pick, and I was glad to be in a very dynamic book group for almost 10 years as well as one in a previous community we lived in before that. Now that I've gotten older than either of my parents got to be, I feel as if I'm living on bonus time, and I have taken some different directions with my life. For one thing, we became grandparents late in life, and want to allot as much time as we have with our young grandsons. Also, there is quite a bucket list of both books and quilts as well as other projects, and I don't want to devote the time and effort at this point in my life to getting too much involved with other distractions. Thirdly, when we moved in 2014 we settled closer to my fairly large extended family, and frankly they provide just about as much social life as I need and want. However, for anyone at a different stage of life I'd heartily recommend being in both reading and quilting groups. There may be trade-offs, but they do enrich your life and give you a chance to make new friends who share your interests. I may still eventually join both a guild and a book club around here.

Dewolfe

I just finished reading the third and final book of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. Loved it. Sanderson's storytelling is amazing. Any other Sanderson fans in here?

SusieQOH

It seems like they are doing a lot of series books these days, doesn't it?

cashs_mom

There are a lot of mystery series. I love them and read as many as I can!

AngelaS

Loved OVe!! It’s my favorite of all his books. There’s a movie with subtitles and it’s really good too.

My 13 yo dd has been loving all the O’Reilly books. She’s really getting into history and I love it.

AngelaS

Ive read the and the other Sandra Dallas books. I love how random characters show up in later books.

I just got from the library The Two Family House and If We Make it Home. Both are really good.

SusieQOH

I liked The Two Family House a lot.

elnan

I see that someone has listed Louise Penny, add my vote. I think she turns out one a year. I am partial to J A Jance and to C J Box. In another posting, someone was asking about Earlene Fowler's books, which I thought I had read all of.

cashs_mom

I've just gotten into Robert B Parker's "The Bridge" It's one of this western series. I love all his books. The thing I find really amusing is that no matter what their names are they all resemble Spenser a bit. Either in attitude or language. I loved Spenser so it always makes me smile to see bits of Spenser in all his main characters.