Novel Destinations ends, BUT...

     I imagine you know when a sentence says but, there will be something else you will want to know.  And in this case, it's true.
     Our adult book club "Novel Destinations" ended last night, BUT we have an even better season coming. 
     Beginning on Tuesday, June 12th, at 6:30 p.m. in the library auditorium, we will begin our "Between the Covers" book club.  Doesn't that sound interesting?
     Last night seven members met to enjoy coffee, butternut pound cake, and fresh fruit with honey-yogurt sauce.  We received brochures about a new series at the library called "Our Favorite Authors," bookmarks, the library's April newsletter, and great midnight blue coffee mugs with the logo "Between the Covers."
     After chatting for a short time, we got down to business.
     For the BTC meetings we decided to stay with the second Tuesday of each month (except May and December), 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.  And we decided that each month we would read a different genre.  We all felt that would help us get out of our "comfort genres" and explore others...expand our knowledge, so to speak.  We also decided it would be nice if each person could contribute a small plate of snacks at each meeting with the library providing coffee, tea, or lemonade.
     We decided that at the June meeting for our short program we will explore one of the library's free databases "NoveList." This helpful database can be reached through a link on our website to Georgia's Virtual Library GALILEO.  The genre we will discuss will be "books to keep you up at night," Thrillers or True Survival.  We have almost two months to read whatever book we'd like to discuss at this first meeting.  At the July 10th meeting, we discuss "remembering the romance," the genre of Romance novels.
     With all the necessary planning completed for the upcoming season's first couple of meetings, we got down to serious business, that of discussing what we've been reading.  And I have to tell you that I discovered we are a group of serious readers.  By that I mean, we read lots of books and all kinds of books.  Our discussion was one of the most interesting I've been involved with in a long time.
     Here are the titles of just a few books we discussed:  Desert Angel by Charlie Price, The Message by Eugene Peterson, The Rope by Nevada Barr, Zero Day by David Baldacci, Moon Spinners by Sally Goldenbaum, Blues in the Night by Rochelle Krich, Chateau of Echoes by Siri Mitchell, and The First 48 by Tim Green.  There were more, but you get the idea.
     Around the middle of May, we're going to place our displays in the library for "Between the Covers" to remind you of a great opportunity to be part of an interesting and exciting adult book club.  We're not going to tell you what you have to read and discuss.  We're going to suggest a monthly genre to read and share...but we're not going to make you.  We're only going to suggest the excitement of reading out of your "comfort genre" and expand your reading power.
     And somewhere along the way, we'll have brochures and bookmarks and possibly some gifts to distribute that will encourage your reading habit and delight you.
     Think about joining us.  It's only for one hour or there-about.  I think we'll have more fun than watching "Dancing with the Stars" and "The Voice."  Besides, imagination is always better than sight.