Book Club

So this year I decided that I wanted to read more books.  I honestly don't think I read enough.  I mostly read online news articles but I want to read actual books.  So I figured what better way to motivate myself than to drag my friends into it and start a book club.  So far, three of my friends have joined but they said they'll ask to see if any of their friends are interested as well.  I decided to do the book club meeting every other month (so 6 books total) because people have very busy schedules (myself included) and trying to get everyone together every month is probably going to be impossible.  We'll take turns choosing the reading material in the order in which we joined the club. The person choosing will give 3-4 choices that everyone can vote on in case they've already read it, or hate the author or whatnot.  I think that's the fairest way to do it.  At the end of the second month the person who choose the book will host a brunch to discuss the book and socialize. 

I decided that I'm going to start a blog to review the books I read.  I'm not going to limit myself to just the book club choices.  I'll review any other books I read as well.  There are books I have in mind that I want to read but I think having a book club where someone else chooses something I wouldn't normally consider reading myself will be a good way to expose myself to different types of literature and expand my mind.  5

Obviously since it was my idea I went first with this month's pics.  My choices were:

World War Z by Max Brooks
The Children of Men by P. D. James
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
1984 by George Orwell

The vote ended up being for The Children of Men.  My top pick was actually World War Z but I'm happy to read any of the choices.  I'll probably end up reading them all either way.  I actually read over half of 1984 a while ago but I never finished it.  I almost didn't put it on the list since I figured everyone's probably already read it but I think there should always be a classic on the choice list.