Last night was the latest meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club and it was, quite probably, the most exciting and fun meeting we’ve ever had. While some folks were not able to finish reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, the folks who did read it loved it entirely. I believe it was the highest rated book that we’ve read thus far. The duty fell to Amelia to bring in 3 selections for the group to vote on to read as our next book and after much debate, the decision came down to a tie between two books. After we asked our followers on Twitter to help us pick our next book, it was determined that we will be reading the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July:
I’m excited that our next book is a collection of short stories, I think it will make for a spirited discussion when we meet next. We decided to change up our meeting schedule a bit … instead of meeting every other Tuesday, we’ve decided to meet only once a month on the first Sunday of the month. Our next official meeting to discuss the book will be Sunday March 7 where we will discuss No One Belongs and then select our next book to read.
After our raucous meeting, we all stayed together to watch Lost … which was very fun, if a bit confusing and very lively for pretty much everyone … well, save for one of us. We had a great time last night, I love my fellow Turtle Partiers.
Today, we clean … we will be hosting David’s brother Aram this weekend to celebrate his birthday so we start cleaning our pit today. Wee, I can’t wait. /sarcasm
trent! i read “no one belongs here more than you” about a year ago.. it’s such as amazing and inventive group of short stories.. you’ll love it!
i got this book for christmas a few years ago and LOVE it. “the swim team” is my favorite story from the collection.
I “third” the recommendation for this book. One of my good friends recommended it to me, though he said that he didn’t like the movie she wrote (I think it’s called Me and you and everyone we know, or something like that).
SUCH a good book. i think you’ll enjoy it.
while i enjoyed this book, i thought it was a little tedious. july is a fantastic writer and would, IMHO, excell in writing in any other form then this. after about the third story i felt bored with her voice.
whoa, i bought this book when it came out, and i’m not sure i ever made it through the entire thing- i forgot i had it! “you me and everyone we know” is my favorite movie of all time and i love miss july, but i remember finding the stories ..i don’t want to say “boring”, i’ll just say they weren’t my thing, but probably would have been when i was younger. her sense of humor is absolutely wonderful :)
Trent–March 7th is the Oscars! How will you fit it all in?! :)