So upon my imminent return to San Antonio, I e-mailed a friend about a joining her book club. You see…I’m a big fan of the book club as it’s like English lit class, only you get to choose what you read and the irritating girl with dreadlocks, horned-rimmed glasses, and a penchant for saying things like, “Per se” isn’t allowed. Plus you get to drink.
However, it seems that I accidentally inserted myself into an all-female book club – my first clue being when the book they chose was My Sister’s Keeper. I say “accidentally” because, for some reason, I thought my friend’s husband was part of the book club also. He’s not. It’s no boys allowed and I was unaware.
A month after I e-mailed my friend and read the book – which, just so you know, is the literary equivalent of being held against your will in a CIA prison by tortuous characters who waterboard you with predictable melodrama and say things like, “She’s the one who held me together. Without her I’d all apart.” – the night of the get-together approached.
When the group leader discovered I am male, she promptly got “the vapors” and banished me hereto forth forever from the book club muttering something about male oppression and the Lillith Faire.
Of course that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but she did mention to my friend that she wanted to keep the group all-female, which is fine except now I’m out $14.95 plus the seven hours I spent detained by the Guantanamo Bay of Chick Lit.
Oh, Book Club…I hardly knew ye. (Per se.)
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oh matty, how can i ever make it up to you? i'm sure it would involve a new aston martin or a ticket to mj's interment, but, until i am forced by my parents to donate a kidney to fund such lavishness, how about a drink? maybe even a movie ticket to everyone's favorite leukemia-flick?
I still think you should come.
I loved the book - but it's definitely for girls. If you didn't like My Sister's Keeper - don't read The Road - which will also be coming out as a movie soon. As well as The Time Traveler's Wife. Whatever happened to the happy ending?
-Holly
RE: Guess who's...
How about TWO drinks? ;)
RE: Corinnaballerina
Sorry...I think I should keep my Y chromosomes away. ;-)
RE: Anonymous 9:12
It's not the sad ending, it's the writing I didn't like. The characters - who are all supposed to be different - are written all the same. And the "deus ex machine" at the ending is ridiculous. But to each his/her own...if you liked it I'm glad!
"..seven hours I spent detained by the Guantanamo Bay of Chick Lit."
ROMAL BEST.REVIEW.EVER!!!!
matty, two drinks, it is! if it makes you feel any better, i'm already hating the alternating characters / contrived diary weirdness... everybody sounds the exact damn same! (and that font switching crap? is about to give me a nose bleed. dear lord.)
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