Book Club - 061107

I attended a book club at Politics and Prose, for Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I love book clubs! I haven't attended many, though, and sometimes, I don't seem ready, but I just finished this book a couple days ago. Sometimes those that lead bookclubs are enveloped in their own importance. I'm intelligent so it almost becomes a challenge in my mind :) Luckily, this book club was less structured. There is always a fighting for position, but it just wasn't as obvious in this one. It was very good.

I decided a cool way to focus my nextstopgraduateschool blog is to just either attend a book club or an author reading at Politics and Prose on a weekly basis. In this way my weekly reading will end in more revelation by others. It's not my favorite bookstore, but it has a lot to offer, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's really one of the best in the nation. Once I get podcasting down, I could end my weekly analysis of a book with a podcast focused on what I was thinking of the book after the discussion or the author reading. Should be cool.

For Eat Pray Love I stepped into the bookclub thinking that this is not as much a book aimed for women, as much as a book aimed at my generation. Her inclusion of song lyrics or titles just seems so Generation X as we are as much defined by the 80's music, and the catapult of alternative music as much as those of the 60s. That's my view. However, when I was in the book club so many women of different ages than me identified with the author because of the internal exploration. I had to rethink who is really the main audience who would get the book, if there is such a thing?