THE PRESSURE IS BUILDING!

Hey Novel Spirits, its almost time for our next meeting and I'm looking forward to it as always. I've finished Chief's book and Archimedes's book. THE REASON I JUMP doesn't take long at all if you haven't started it yet.

But the pressure I'm referring to in the title is the pressure to select my next book. Currently we have 7 books left in our list, so even though our next submissions won't be for quite a few months, I'm already stressing about it. We've had some daisies and we've had some doozies thats for sure. But I'm not complaining. As Archimdes mentioned recently, some of our best book club meeting discussions have been about some books we didn't really like.

Both of my original book submissions haven't even been picked yet! So why in the world am I worrying about my next one?! So the reason for this post is to inform you all that I am taking my next submission very seriously and I'll share some of the websites I've been checking out. These are lists filled with classics, which I am not much of an expert on (I know that is a shocker). So I'm conflicted on what type of book I want to go for. There are plenty of classics to choose from for sure, but here's my problem: all through high school, my classes required me to read classics like Shakespeare stuff, Beowulf, Henry David Thereau, and all these other things that are supposedly the world's greatest literature. And I couldn't understand a single stinkin word of any of it! So the result was just me getting extremely frustrated and stopped reading altogether. Forgive this blasphemy fellow Novel Spirits, but I felt it was time to come clean with you all.

Luckily, my dark years didn't last long and I came back to reading. But it was on my own terms, not my literature teachers. No offense to JB of course, I just couldn't understand cotton picking word of the classics. (That is me being G-rated with the language).

So that's why I'm a little skeptical of these lists, so I'm still undecided. We shall see. Anyway, sorry about the blabbing confessional, here are a few links if you're interested:

Greatest books .org

All-time Best sellers

New York Times list

Wikipedia lists

On a side note, have you all been figuring out which character you will be next meeting??? I have one idea but I'm not fully committed yet. I'm still playing the field, shopping around looking for the right one. There are plenty of fish in the sea you know!

On another side note, who will accept the challenge of adding this item to their bucket list: write a book? I have tried to convince and motivate Archimedes to do it. But my motivational methods of reverse pyschology backfired severely and now she refuses to ever do it purely to spite me. Sooo, I'll try a different angle next time. But maybe you all could consider it too. I mean, after seeing so many of the utterly terrible childrens' books published out there, you couldn't do any worse at least.