"If you want to start a book club...."

"If you want to start a book club, you should read the book, "So I want to start a book club".

Have you guys heard that commercial?  I can't remember if it's off pandora or hulu... but I've heard it a lot, and it's sort of annoying actually [almost all commercials are really], I can't even remember what it was advertising.

But today, I sure did google, "starting a book club" [I read a link on Oprah's site].

And then we had our first meeting, which was cool.  I'm hoping to talk a few other people into it, so that we can have some more diversity.  But people are noncommittal [I started out with "anti-committal" which I kind of like better].

Things I was glad for:
-almost all of us [with the exception of one dude], have never been a part of a book club [I'm choosing to believe this is a good thing :)].
-everyone seems pretty financially practical [library books, free kindle books, etc].

***I just heard the commercial!  Pandora, for carmax***

-the people that showed up seem really cool.
-although totally not a huge deal, the whole "smart" thing bothers me occasionally  right... so being a part of a book club makes me excited, but also sort of hmm... defensive on my smartness.  I'm hoping I'm not too awkward when it comes to that.
-4 out of 5 of us are not originally from SB.  I think this is also sort of cool.  And interesting.  I most often connect with people who also don't have roots in whatever town I'm in.  It's neat.
-We ended up picking Same Kind of Different As Me [damn, just looked that up, and the author is coming to Elkhart in September!  Woah... that's awesome.  It's like we're a big city!

Also, sort of interesting... Ronald and I start things, and commit to thing and groups easily enough... and pretty hard core 100% if we're in it, we're totally in it.  Not half assed.  And yet, we're sort of anti-committal on things like buying a house, or a car, or having a relationship [before Ronald, I didn't date anyone longer than one month].  Just sort of odd, right.  Oh well.  Maybe that's because of our priorities.  Community is high on both of our priorities.  So committing to them is necessary.

In any case, I'm excited for the book club.  If we do end up keeping it small, then we might be able to host at a few peoples houses, which I think would be awesome, and comfy, and more conversation-producing.

All that to say... yay.  Book club is going to be fun... and maybe Ronald will join us too.  We'll see.

-mrp-