Assigned Reading

When we first moved, one of the first things we did was go get Library Cards.  I could hardly contain my astonishment when my mother-in-law pointed to a flyer and said, "Oh, look at that!"  There was a flyer for a Jane Austen Book Club!!!!!  It meets once a month on a Saturday morning, which means Jason is usually able to watch the kids.  I tried to go earlier this year when they were discussing Sense & Sensibility.  I even read the whole book so I could really be a good book club member.  Then something came up and I couldn't make it to the meeting.  I kinda gave up on going, but then realized on Thursday that it actually would work out for me to go on Saturday!  The discussion was going to be on Pride & Prejudice, which I have read before.  But just be sure I downloaded it from Librivox and listened to the first 11 chapters Friday night (which is basically the first VHS video of the BBC 6-tape series).  I was relieved when pretty much everybody there hadn't read P&P during the past month because they had read it recently or once before, etc.  There were 8 people there including myself, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The Librarian/Moderator gave a fun quiz at the end which I won!  There wasn't a prize, but I didn't care.  We were sent home with the book for next month's meeting: The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett by Colleen McCullough.  I've only read the first chapter and I hate it.  Literally.  But I'm going to press on and maybe I won't view it as a waste of my time once I'm finished.  I will read it to remain relevent in my new book club if nothing else.  I'm just saying at this point I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.  One of the ladies who is a member of the JA Book Club moderates the Classic Literature Book Club at our Library, too, which meets just prior to JA  Book Club so I might try to do both.  Anyway, she sent me home with the book they are reading - Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty.  I've never heard of it before so we'll see how it goes.  In the meantime I'm going to finishing P&P, and continue CM's Volume 1 with Ceridwen.  I am quite out of breath.