{"id":4484,"date":"2010-08-07T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2010-08-07T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T00:07:41","slug":"book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/08\/07\/book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joined a book club. Oddly enough for being an avid reader, I’ve never really done well discussing them in groups. In high school, there was a group of authors who would discuss manuscripts each other had written. The difference between this and a book club being openly critical of something hurts can hurt the author’s feelings. Saying you don’t like someone’s favorite book doesn’t have the same personalization.<\/p>\n

Guess I turned a corner when Chelsea and I planned to get together and discuss The Tipping Point<\/a> <\/em>about 9 months ago. In the actual book club, I enjoyed hearing other’s takes and responding to them. Better understood some areas I guess I glossed over when reading on my own. Not too much like Lit class like I expected. (Was also able to overcome the nausea of going off to meet strangers.)<\/p>\n

Wondering if perhaps the best approach is to discuss while reading … instead of\u00c2\u00a0… reading then discussing? Guess people’s differences in pacing make that hard. Plus they’d have to be around each other more like daily than once a month.<\/p>\n

By the way, in my introduction, I claimed these as the three “books” I like.<\/p>\n

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  1. Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon<\/a><\/em> (the Xanth series) started my obsession with getting a hold of new books. One of my aunts gave me the first three books. I then had<\/strong> to buy the rest of the books the day they dropped in bookstores. That was before Amazon existed.<\/li>\n
  2. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (first book is A Game of Thrones<\/a><\/em>) Ended my obsession of getting a hold of new books. After all, I spent months checking in with a certain bookstore asking when Storm would drop. Feast spent a year on pre-order through several slipped drop dates. I no longer pre-order books.<\/li>\n
  3. Not sure why I named Lincoln’s Melancholy<\/a><\/em> except the other books which came to mind were about physical sciences. I less than stellarly try to be more partial to behavioral sciences.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Naturally quantum mechanics came up. For the life of me, I could not remember name Michio Kaku. His book\u00c2\u00a0Hyperspace<\/a> <\/em>was where I learned the about the concept of using worm holes to travel massive distances or even time travel. (Actually I read that one at the request of another aunt so I could explain it to her.)<\/p>\n

    Now… Off to read Ender’s Game<\/a><\/em> again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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