I have no excuses for why it is taking me so long to finish my next book! I’ve had to renew it twice already and I’m only a little more than halfway through Tara Road by Maeve Binchy. While it is a thicker book, its length is not the reason it’s taking me so long to get through it. While it is an interesting story…honestly, I’m a little bored. It’s getting to the point where I really don’t care what happens to these characters, and I very much want to care. It’s just a story I’ve read before: Woman falls in love, than woman and man fall in love with big beautiful house, they move in, have kids, man tells woman he had an affair with another (much younger) girl and now she’s pregnant. It’s still an interesting story line, I just don’t think it’s being told very well.
BUT, if I had just finished it in a timely manner like the other books, than I wouldn’t be in the situation that I’m in now! For a long time, I’ve always wanted to join a book club. And the Borders near my apartment has a book club, but I kept hesitating to check it out because I wasn’t going to know anyone there. Since I’m a part of the squadron newsletter, I brought up the idea about starting a book club. No one has started one, so we put a little blurb in the newsletter, asking people to contact me if they were interested, and I got a couple emails! We picked a book, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and we will be meeting at my place to discuss it on July 20. So now, I have to finish this book club book first, because I need to make sure I can discuss it for the meeting. I’m hoping to finish it early so that I can spend a couple days catching up on Tara Road. Plus, I’m in the process of knitting a cardigan-vest, a scarf from left-over material, and I also started another cross-stitching project. And with these crafting activities, I can also watch various shows I’ve DVR’d. The only real reading I’ve been doing lately has been before I go to sleep and during my lunch break at work. I just have too many hobbies now!!
I am going to see if I can integrate some of Oprah’s book pics into the book club repertoire. She has so many amazing choices, I’m sure the girls are bound to want to read some of them!
