I'm joining a book club! - well, an online book club. I've spent the past few weeks searching for a decent book club in my neighborhood, county, time zone!, but haven't had much luck. So, in the meantime, I'll be participating in BookBlog.net. The next discussion, which will be about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, will take place on November 20th.

These are other online book clubs I encountered during my search if anyone is interested in joining:
The Book Group List
Literary Fiction Lovers
The Reading Lounge

I miss being an English major in college when we were assigned books to read week after week. I took those reading lists for granted then, but now I'd really love to get my hands on Professor Perera's, Eng's and Smith's syllabi for the classes they are teaching. I miss our book discussions, which were sometimes lifeless and desperately held onto by the professor - and other times, filled with brazen critiques of the author and his work. The brazen days were much more interesting, although waiting to see if a fellow classmate would start snoring right in the middle of class was always quite exciting. I even miss the creative writing workshops, filled with aspiring writers who thought they knew all - but secretly admitted to themselves that they learned a thing or two from the class. I miss reading out loud, reading with a pen firmly clasped to make notations in the side margins of books, reading in preparation to write an academic paper or a creative response.

Can't you tell? I'm nostalgic for college. Well anyway, Happy Reading!