Not Your Oprah’s Bookclub

Since the potluck worked so well last time, we’re doing it again. We meet in two weeks, on Tuesday June 30th, 7:00 at my (Kris’s) house* for a potluck. I’ll have meat and veggie burgers and fixings. Bring a side dish or dessert and your favorite bottle (or bottles). This month, we’re reading Mark Helprin’s Memoir from Antproof Case.

If you haven’t started it yet, get going! It’s 514 pages long (but, unlike last June’s pick, House of Leaves, you won’t have to read it upside down and diagonally). Oh, and it’s not really a memoir. It’s a fictional memoir. Although, I guess we could argue that they all are.

Here are some reviews:

• From the Brothers Judd
• From David Louis Edelman
• From goodreads.com

This meeting marks the one year anniversary of our book club, and from what I know and hear about book club success, we’re doing pretty well. We usually have ten or more people at each meeting, about half of whom have read the whole book, and we only go off topic about 60% of the time, so yay us! All kidding aside, most book clubs don’t make it this long, and I’m thrilled that we’re still going strong.

In more news, I’m going to start sharing the book club duty branch with Julie Cancio Harper and Miriam Klein who have graciously agreed to co-organize and co-facilitate the book club meetings (and I hope co-post to this blog). I’m so grateful to both of them.

So please, come out and join us for this anniversary meeting, and someone, bring a cake! Even if you don’t finish the book. You know how we are.

*If you’re a bookclub regular, you’ve already gotten an email from me with my address. If you’d didn’t receive that message, contact me at kharrington@ysu.edu.