I’d like to start a fiction book club. On my blog. I have tried being in book groups in person, and I don’t always love it, probably because I am a lot more private than I seem. I am sometimes uncomfortable with group dynamics. But I like one-on-one, and I love the distance and control that email and blog conversations give me.<\/p>\n
I love to read, and I try to always have a book going. But lately I have been having trouble finding one I like, so I resorted to junk, which is never all that satisfying. The last great thing I read was the new Jay McInerney, The Good Life<\/span><\/a> (I also heard him read it in person and was so taken with him that I wanted to flirt with him, but there were too many others like me there!). In the last year, I also enjoyed Prep<\/a>, The Glass Castle<\/a>, The Speed of Dark<\/a>, Plain Truth<\/a>, My Sister’s Keeper<\/a>, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/a>. I’d like to start a fiction book club. On my blog. I have tried being in book groups in person, and I don’t always love it, probably because I am a lot more private than I seem. I am sometimes uncomfortable with group dynamics. But I like one-on-one, and I love the distance and control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-mi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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What is the common ingredient there? What causes one to pick up a book and make the effort? If anyone out there has similar taste, let me know and maybe we can try a blog book group here — and we won’t invite Oprah<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"