book club, lately

our core group of 5-6 book clubbers is still going strong. there's been discussion about expanding the group activities to make it more inclusive (iced coffee day! walk to the lake day!), but for now we're still just discussing books. the continuing goal is to get a guy to join, and it looks like one is joining us for our february meet-up, giggle.

here's a quick wrap-up of what we've been reading:

i hadn't read this since high school and i have to say, i totally missed the point of it back then. i might've still missed it now but now i have the benefit of wikipedia!

scout as a young woman, i found it wasn't as tidy and pulled together as "mockingbird" but i really loved being able to see what the characters were up to as adults; kind of like why i'm excited to watch "fuller house."

this was the unanimous choice for our holiday book. i want to live in this book. sometimes i think that i'd like to live inside a pottery barn catalog or in stars hollow, but the rosy, cozy, and principled world that alcott paints just might outrank those both. i read this on BART and would sigh and blink back tears as our favorite little women grew up. i devoured this one and proceeded to "little men" (yes, there's a sequel and while it's sweet it doesn't quite ring as soundly as the first one), and then the following "jo's boys."  

getting off the nostalgia train, we're reading for february "bloodchild" by octavia butler. she's a science fiction writer who touches on a lot of race and gender themes. it should be a good discussion!