Book Club = Good Times

{book #1}

I have been wanting to start a book for some time now, but NO ONE has wanted to join. You all are bums. JK, but seriously....

Thanks to Liz and Lauren, the book club I have always wanted is officially underway! {Thanks girls!}

We read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green for the June book club that met a few weeks ago. Liz had us over at her *new* apartment and made us dinner :) Then we talked about the book. Let me tell you, I really enjoyed this book. It's the story of Hazel who has cancer and goes to a cancer support support group. One day, a boy who is remission comes to the group to support a friend. This boy, Augustus, meets Hazel and so begins their story. It is really good people, and has equal parts seriousness and funny. Not to mention the fact that John Green tells a story in a clever way. I read it on my Nook and I cant tell you the amount of times that I highlighted lines from the book that just made me laugh, or think "I LOVE the way he said that".

Anyway, we talked about the book, drank wine, and ...... well you know what they say, "What happens at book club stays at book club."

{Just read it already}

The next one is in July. We are meeting at Liz's again and Lauren is cooking us dinner :) The book is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. I am SO excited for book club that I've already read it and I am FURIOUS!

GoodReads

Dear bookworms and the like,

There is a fabulous website called GoodReads that you all must check out. If you haven't already, you NEED to create an account. The person who came up with this site is a genius.

So basically, you log all the book that you want to read by searching for them online and saving them on your "To-Read" bookshelf. OR, if you are like me, and you are standing in the book section at Target and you are thinking, "I want all of these books and I want to read them all right now but I'm not a millionaire so I'll just pick one", but don't want to forget about the other hundred on the shelf that you want to read, you can SCAN THEM and save them to your bookshelf. It's easy and fun. Trust me.

You can also add in books that you have read so you don't get 50 pages into a book and realize that you have already read it and that you just forgot...or so that you can brag to the world that you actually made it through The Sun Also Rises (or insert-an-equally-as-tough-for-you-to-get-through-book-here)  and you're proud of it!

You can also create your own bookshelves like, "Abandon Ship!", where I store the other books written by Ernest Hemingway...

I seriously recommend this website, or app if you have a smart phone. It's free. It's convenient. It's worth your time.

Love,
Me

P.S.- Look me up. I'll be your friend and we can chat about why I dislike Hemingway so much ;)