We had book club on Saturday night. We always have a blast. This group of ladies are the best. We have a great mix of women younger with young children and older with older children. To be a diverse group we all get along well and we are not afraid to voice our opinions on any subject. No shock there I am sure. This month we read Divergent by Veronica Roth, it was good we all enjoyed it. We are going to read the second book in this series for next month, Insurgent. These books are on the Dystopian world after everything falls apart. At the rate we are going these are looking more and more like a fore shadowing of our fate. Ahh, but that is for a month of posts.
I enjoyed this book, it is not one I would have picked for myself. I am glad I read it and I am sure I will enjoy the second one as well. I personally prefer murder mystery books. I would recommend this one though, it does have suspense, twists, some romance and mystery. I like being in a book club because this encourages me to read other things and spread my wings to venture in areas I would not normally go. So far we have read: Water for Elephants, The Memory Keepers' Daughter, Wicked, and Divergent. All good books, I think my least favorite was, The Memory Keepers' Daughter, just because it made me cry so much. I am also reading Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child. This is in the series that the movie Jack Reacher was based on. It is good, I have not seen the movie but I think I would like it.
I like to read the books before I see movies. When I was younger I always heard people say; "oh, the book was so much better than the movie." Back then, I could not imagine a book being better than a movie, but now I see what they are talking about. Your books give you more insight into characters that movies just do not have time for. Sprat seems to be like me on this subject. He read all of the Hunger Game books and read the first one before he saw the movie. He agreed the book was much better than the movie. He is anxiously awaiting the second movie.
I did not like to read when I was growing up, I did not begin to enjoy it until I found my murder mystery books. The first author I got hooked on was Robin Cook, I think I like him because he wrote medical mysteries. I am so glad that my kids have found subjects and authors that they enjoy at such an early age. Both boys love to read and read well above their age level. The each have very different interests when it comes to reading too.
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