The other night I had the chance to ask some book groupies an important question, something I always think about when I think about book reading groups. There are quite a few local people who not only read books for pleasure, but meet regularly to talk about what they've read. The personal pleasure you get from a great book is yours alone. You may not want to hear that someone else thought the book was trash.
Some people simply have trouble getting out of the house on a weeknight.
Then you worry if you ll have something intelligent to say. And you worry that you didn't even finish the book. Or you forgot which book everyone else is reading. The answers were numerous and enthusiastic. One person said because she s in a group she reads many books she would otherwise not pick.