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Just hit my 50th book club meeting and the number made me stop
I was cleaning out my bag and found a stack of old notes, so I counted them all. I've been in the same club for five years, which means we've picked 50 books to fight about (I mean, discuss). It hit me that I've spent more time arguing over fictional characters than some real people in my life. Has anyone else hit a number that made you look at your club totally different?
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calebw506mo ago
Been there. Our club hit 100 books last year and it felt weird. We started keeping a list on a shared doc, just titles and dates. Seeing it all laid out showed patterns, like we pick too many sad historical novels every winter. Makes you realize what you've actually been talking about all that time.
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kai_bennett6mo ago
That's a smart way to do it. We tried something like that but added a one-word mood tag next to each book, like "bleak" or "funny." It got pretty eye-opening when we saw a solid block of "bleak" for three months straight. Made us actually change our picks for a while just to break the cycle. The list doesn't lie, even when your memory does.
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alicelopez5mo ago
Counting all those notes must have been a trip. I read about a club that tracked their ratings and found they gave higher scores to books by men, which was a real wake-up call. Makes you wonder what your own stack of notes would really say.
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