INAUGURAL MEETING (08/30/2014)

First meeting of the book club! Here's a brief summary of the meeting:

First we brainstormed ideas for our club name. Here are some of the ideas thrown out for consideration: "Reading between the Wines", "Happy Bookers", "Litwits", "Novel Spirits". After some polite discourse quickly broke down into some rather ugly name calling and later to MMA style fighting, our strongest member (who submitted "Novel Spirits") caused the rest of us to tap out and we officially became THE NOVEL SPIRITS.

Next came the election of officers. Deuce was voted President, Archimedes was voted Secretary and Diesel was voted Technological Coordinator.

Then we created a tentative schedule for how each meeting will be conducted:
1. Wine and Food (that was a unanimous decision FYI)
2. Club business. The non-fun logistics and what not. ZZZZZzzzz
3. Discussion of book that was just read. The person who nominated the current book will act as the moderator of the discussion.
4. Selection of the next book to be read. Here's how that process works: each club member nominates two books of his/her own choosing. All nominations are put into a hat and selected randomly. When a person's book is selected, he/she doesn't get to replace a submission until all books are read. At that point, we'll start the process over and everyone resubmits. Hopefully, this method is fair to all club members.

Next order of business was the selection of the next book to read (which ironically, is out of order of the tentative schedule decided on only just before now). Go figure. And the next book is: IN COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote!

Then, the discussion of the current book. However, please see side note below:

Just as a side note, at least initially we might break up each meeting blog post into two posts: one with all club business and logistical stuff, and one with the actual discussion of the current book. This might be easier for anyone who is just interested in the book discussion and analysis rather than our club shenanigans. We'll see how that goes, we can always change it.

So this concludes the summary of The Novel Spirits' first meeting (the business portion anyway). Next post will be the discussion of WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE? by Maria Semple, our inaugural book.