Tuesday, February 19, 2008
My 2 Cents
Well i am encouraged by the newfound enthusiasm to keep this little project of a multi-city virtual book club alive! and i love everyone's suggestions. Now, in the spirit of honesty and democracy (and not just to be contrary), i'd have to say that my first choice would be: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, a book I have heard a lot about and am very excited to read. That being said, i am a major Virginia W fan and would happily read or re-read anything of hers and Erica's non-fiction selection sounds great too! I guess i would say that a contemporary novel would be my #1 right now, and then i think we could move into the classics and non-fiction reads. but i am open and know that we should make a decision soon. Oh, and Rakiya, i am glad that you are now a member. For more reference on this book club, please see Office Episode, Branch Wars, featuring the original Finger Things Club, the inspiration for this esteemed group effort.
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You make mention of a "Finger Things Club", a new group, perhaps? Focusing on hors de oeuvres...or finger puppets...or sign language...
How great would it be to have a sign language blog? Erica could lead us in some songs on that one.
Nice Lindsay, way to be nice.
I guess I don't really care what we read, but please don't have it be TOO long. Remember guys, I'm in college and am forced to read hundreds of pages a week on things like the Agricultural Revolution.
I want to read all 3 at some point, so the order doesn't matter too much to me. Oscar Wao seems a little less daunting and therefore more appealing, but at some point I'll just have to dive into Woolf (bad metaphor) and I'm sure I'll be very happy that I did.
So how shall we decide? A vote? Numbers out of a hat?
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