This as far as I'm concerned is A Good Thing.
I have been very lazy with my reading for quite a while now and this is going to introduce me to new books and authors in a way that will probably snowball and completely decimate my free time.
That's all for the greater good as well. I waste the hell out of my free time.
As I know and quite like the people who are going to be there the only wankery and pseudo-intellectualism I'll have to look out for is my own*, so I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about My Turn.
The rules, as far as I remember them, are:
- We take it in turns to pick the book we're all going to read for that month's meeting
- It has to be something that none of us has read before
- Um... yeah, that's all I remember, that might be it.
I've just finished it and it was brilliant.
The pacing of the story and the presentation of the themes were both done in a very effective way and the manner in which the author describes things is deceptively simple and very stirring**.
I'm going to talk about the use of timing so hard on Thursday...
Ahem, excuse me.
Anyway, my concerns are as follows:
- Like I said, I've been fairly lazy with my reading lately so I'm going to have to go looking for new books. Usually I just go down to the library or the bookstore and wait for something to catch my eye.
- I hate, hate, hate recommending books that I haven't read before. What if they're terrible? What if I've just wasted your precious time and made you read something you can't unread? Like many things in life I'm perfectly willing to accept and forgive this sort of thing happening if somebody else does it and treat all knowledge and experiences as valuable in their own way, but if I do it...
- Nobody in the group is a genre-snob but I'm probably a bit more zombie/sci fi/crime fiction oriented than they are. If I pick something in my usual range I'm going to have to make sure it's well written and accessible to everyone rather than just hilarious and/or interesting to me.
Despite my reservations I am more excited than apprehensive.
Much more excited.
Oh my God I'm going to read so many books!
Deploying Glee in 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1!
Glee!!! ^_^
*I majored in literature in university, I only know one way to talk about books and that is pretentiously.
**See what I mean?
2 comments:
Ooh man! I could pick books til the cows come home. Talk intelligently about them with others however, that's a bit tougher.
Hope it's as fun/enjoyable as it sounds.
It's all sounds very high fallutin' in my head but it always comes out my mouth as 'Holy crap, did you completely lose it when Character A reappeared to challenge Character B or what?' :-p
The principle of 'Plus Wine' seems to be helping, we get a lot more eloquent plus wine :-)
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