So excited - just joined this group!

[cilla4progress]

I live in a rural location and have a complicated work schedule. Hard to connect in person with various book group opportunities, consistently.

I have 2 books going now (one fiction - The Half-Drowned King; Norse myth genre), one non (Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankand, by Juval Harari). Both going slowly..

Seeking recommendations and scintillating discussions about books with like-minded folks. Been here since 2004!

[hermetic]

1. Hi cilla!

Welcome to our come-as-you-are and whenever you feel like it book club. Happy to have you onboard here.

Every Sunday I start a what-are-you-reading-this-week post and pin it to the top of the list, except for when I sometimes forget to do that. Therein we write about our current readings, much like what you just did. This is a great place to find new, and old, tales to suit your tastes.

[cilla4progress]

2. Awww -

thanks! It's perfect for me!

Do you ever have in-depth discussions about books like a book club does?

[hermetic]

6. Re: your question

This doesn't really lend itself to much in the way of in-depth discussions since it is rare for any of us to have read a book at the same time as others, like you do in a book club. In the weekly discussion you don't want to post any spoiler alerts so you can't really get into much description.

You can, though, start a discussion about something you've read and hope someone else who has read it will join in. Some people will say (Spoiler Alerts!) in their title so as not to ruin it for others. I'd be happy to join in one of those discussions, if we should ever have happened to read the book.

[The King of Prussia]

3. How is "Sapiens"?

It's sat here on the shelf, waiting to be read.

[cilla4progress]

4. It's good.

I love anthropology.

Like everything I read nowadays, though, it seems, it depresses me.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. So glad you found us!

I find this group to be problematical in that I find far too many books to read. Sigh.

Here's what I'm currently dealing with. I get most of my books from the library. Right now I have 13 books checked out, and 17 on hold. It's not uncommon for me to have 20 books checked out and 25 (the maximum allowed) on hold.

Plus, I have a lot of books I own that I haven't read yet. I visited my sister last month to attend the wedding of her younger daughter. The theme was books. I came home with ten or more books to read.

Honestly, were someone to board up my house and not let me out, but allow food in and other things out, I'm not sure I'd live long enough to read all of my currently unread books. I'm 71. Well, actually, since I'm a fairly fast reader I probably would read everything within a couple of years. But still.

I like to say that I sincerely hope there's an afterlife and that there are libraries and bookstores there.