The previous week was the perfect storm of my literary world:
- The book club that I was generously invited to join, and have woefully unattended, informed me it was my turn to choose a book.
- I had also just completed the 91 Books to Make You Smarter list and looked at the titles of about 700 books in the process of making it.
- People (seriously, more than 1) were wondering which book I would check off first on my list.
Book Club choices are tricky, because I don't know the Ladies of the Club that well and they seem freaking coooool, so I wanted something interesting and fun and smart. That you could mention in passing, over a glass of sangria and piece of cake.
The only book I could think of was The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I had seen it on one of the lists and I couldn't shake the idea that I'd love it.
Here's why this is the best bet EVER...
The Golden Choice:
- it's a movie, so if I approached the Book Club meeting date and was still 280 pages from the end, I could Clif Notes that sucker by watching the live-action version.
- it's an AWESOME movie. And the book is always better than the movie, right?
- multiple friends had copies.
- it's on my list of 91 books.
- I loved it after 2 pages.
- the little ladies want me to read it to them because it has the words "princess" and "bride" in the title.
And so begins the Get Smart Book Club. If you'd like to read the novel also, we can swap book reports at the end of the month. I'll even make it easy and have a questionnaire. Or a spreadsheet. Or a COMMENT FORM. Or something.
It feels a little bit like cheating, what with picking one book for two book clubs, but I'm all "reduce/reuse/recycle!" up in here now, so suck it.
No, just kidding. Read it. You can buy it for $5.12 on a Kindle or $3.36 in paperback from Amazon.
Reading. Book reports. Fun.
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