The (geeky) excitement I feel about going to visit Thomas and Lucy tonight to play The Great Penguin Bookchase is not only about the game and the great company. It is also about taking a moment to do something bookish in a schedule that has just been brutish lately. So unforgiving that I have failed to even pick up the Wolfish selection for October or The Blithedale Romance that I was to read along with Julia for this past Friday. I have been reading RFPs and grant proposals instead and not altogether happily.
But tonight... Thomas is so deliciously and openly competitive, and Teresa moves so decisively and successfully through a board game that her calm is a bit unnerving, and there is a new friend to meet too. Deadlines past and bibliophile fun on the horizon, I feel excited about these things too:
Verity and Claire are helping spread Persephone love again this holiday season, but you only have until tomorrow to sign up for this gift exchange. The details are here.
The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute was chosen by Emily for our November Wolves read. I have bought it. Am excited about it. And am actually going to read for this month. Really.
And Richard is hosting a group read of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano in January that is providing me with the impetus I have needed to pick up a book I have long wanted to read.
And right now as you can see in my left sidebar, I am reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan for my book club at work this Wednesday. Some of you are laughing. My interest in this one has been a little... uh, absent. So I am more than a little surprised to find myself enjoying it. In most parts. But more on that later. Off to recapture my bookish sense of fun.
