Tonight is my monthly book club where six of us in different locations meet via Zoom and discuss the selection one of us picked to read and review. It’s always interesting.
The thing I like most about this book club is that we actually talk about the book. At times it’s a brief discussion; other times it takes about an hour. Either way, it’s about the book and not about being a therapy session for the attendees.
I’ve got nothing against therapy sessions, but if I’m in a book club I want to discuss the book. The plot. The characters. The point of view. The quality of the writing. The realism or the fantasy.
In this club, we rate the book on a scale of one to five after we’ve discussed it. In all the years we’ve been together, only two books have ever rated a five. They were A Gentleman in Moscow and Anne of Green Gables. Go figure.
As for the name of the club, GBC stands for Great Book Club, although we usually call it by its nickname, the Buddy Book Club, after one of the founding members.
I rate the entire experience a five.
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