A friend of mine shared this on my FB wall last night- I think you'll get a giggle out of it.

[MerryBlooms]

http://jezebel.com/5912354/15-thought+provoking-discussion-questions-every-book-club-should-ask-themselves

[seabeyond]

1. picture other readers reading about sex, have a tv, black turtlenecks.... lol

i have really never done a book club so i dont know if this is serious or not, lol. ah ha.

thanks

[MerryBlooms]

2. Depends on the book club. =P

Of course now, that will be the first thing that comes to my mind with the DUclub.

[JTFrog]

7. I got a giggle out of it.

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Never done a book club either, but those were kind of funny.

I've got three or four books stacked by my bed right now. It's the only time I can get reading in. Unfortunately my doctor recently told me to quit reading in bed because it was aggravating my shoulder. So.... lol. I'll have to find some time during the day to find a quiet place (ha ha) and get a chapter or two in.

[Violet_Crumble]

3. I'm so not a book club type person...

Maybe because the books I read aren't ones that many other people would read. Though I encountered a fair few people who read Robert Fisk's 'The Great War For Civilisation' and I reckon sitting round in turtlenecks discussing that while sipping chardy would have been a very different experience for me

[seabeyond]

4. i want to hear, what kind of book

you read. i cannot imagine there is a "type" i have not read, lol

[Violet_Crumble]

5. Mainly non-fiction ones to do with the Middle East...

I bet you haven't read one like 'Hizbullah: The Story from Within' by Sheikh Naim Qassam. It was pretty heavy going and I never got all the way through it coz he talked too much about religion, which bored me...

[seabeyond]

6. nope. you got me. i dont do those books.....

so funny.

thanks

[CrispyQ]

8. 10.What foods or beverages did you spill on the book during the course of reading it? Anything good?

I confess to making a huge mess on two pages of a library book (!) when penne pasta with red sauce plopped all over the open pages of the book! I no longer eat anywhere near library books. If I mess up my own books, that's my thing, but I felt awful messing up theirs.

When I would lend a paperback book to my mother, it would always look like 10 other people had read it when she returned it!

[MerryBlooms]

10. I love tag sale books, swaps and Goodwill- that way if they suffer damage, I don't feel so guilty.

[MadrasT]

9. That was great.

3. Several people have noted key differences in structure between the modern bestselling novel and commercially successful classic literature. Who do you think these people are trying to impress? Can we all acknowledge that these people went to Brown so we can move on?

[MerryBlooms]

11. I have a couple of friends who might not appreciate that particular snip.

[Texasgal]

12. I enjoyed the kite runner

and a thousand splendid suns.