book snobbery

Sometimes it's hard to be in a book group. We end up reading stuff that not everyone likes and people skip the meeting because they didn't like it or didn't finish it or whatever lame excuse they cough up. I always go, even if I didn't like it or didn't finish it. Sometimes it's more about the conversation around the book than the book itself.

We finished reading Mitch Albom's For One More Day and... a couple liked it and a couple didn't like it. It is awfully difficult not to compare it with Tuesdays with Morrie. I suppose that is what happens when one book is a runaway best seller and movie and phenomenom.

Glad I spoke up for the next book, though. I really want to read and discuss Measure of a Man which is Sidney Poitier's memoir. Plus, it's the Oprah book and she's got fantastic discussion questions, interactive articles with the author and stuff. Stuff is good. Especially book stuff.

I've got several books to read now. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Unmistakable Touch of Grace by Cheryl Richardson, Meg Cabot's series about Heather Wells, two Bubbles books, the fourth book in the Traveling Pants series, the Mayflower book... and... I know there's something else.

so many books... so little time...