A New Year of the RS Book Club

Someday this blog might catch on with the book club members.  I can see us posting about our selected books, or just a book that we're reading on the side and want to recommend.  It could be our private Good Reads.  We could make announcements and share recipes from our yummy refreshments.  Right now it's just a keeper of our book lists for the past few years.  I'll get this year's selections on the shelf soon.  We had a hard time coming up with a list this year, and now we have a few too many.  We'll have to make a decision at our meeting tomorrow night.  We're also coming up with a list of favorite books for young/teen girls that we might want to donate to SNAPS.  I'll post that too.  After that, we might not have any activity until 2014.

An Idea From Oprah

This is from an article, "6 Things You'll Never Regret Doing".  I think I'll do this.  It's hard to stop at your second or third though.  It might be Little Women or Huck Finn or My Antonia.  I also might revisit Cashamara and see why I loved it so much in high school, or maybe a Nancy Drew.

 Rereading Your Second Favorite Book

My favorite book is As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I reread it every year. Many other people also have this habit with their favorite books, including Faulkner himself, who used to go back to Don Quixote, my father, who returns to The Angle of My Repose, and my friend Allison, who revisits the Bible. What I've noticed across the board is that these books tend to be the ones with fat, thick spines and wise, life-changing import. They teach you big things. Your second- or third-favorite book, however, is like a younger child; it doesn't have to work that hard—it can even goof off. Mine is Little House in the Big Woods, which I've also learned a lot from (specifically to always mind my pa and never go sledding on Sundays). And yet until this year, I didn't make room for it on my to-reread list. Because we tend to think of “favorite” as singular. A favorite book. A favorite movie. A favorite person. But it's not as if adding to that group will diminish your feeling for the first selection. Choosing favorites may just be like loving: the more, the more rewarding.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Six-Things-Youll-Never-Regret-Doing/3#ixzz2If4jU5Zk