Great food, good friends, some good wine, a quiet house with no kids in it - sounds like the perfect way to spend one Thursday night a month! Add in the discussion of a good book and it is that much better.

To some people the idea of being in a book club just doesn’t interest them. Remember looking at your school book list to find on it “The Grapes of Wrath” or anything by Dickens? Just thinking about it gives me the same sense of dread I had when I was in ninth grade. But as an adult with the option to choose books about things that interest me, with subjects I’d like to know more about, reading is a selfish escape from the sometimes mundane details of everyday life.

A book club is the perfect place to bring all of these things together. Maybe you like to read but need the pressure of a deadline to propel you through a book. Maybe you find yourself always choosing the same types of books and want to break out of the rut. Tracy DeWit says, “I have not always read, and even as a youngster I found it difficult to get into it. As a mother of three, reading was at the bottom of the ‘to do’ list. The book club offers motivation to read.”