Next book?

Just because we still read printed words on paper doesn't mean we can't embrace new technologies. With that in mind, I decided to start a blog. Hopefully, this will make it easier for us to schedule meetings, choose books, share our thoughts on what we've read -- or want to read, and swap recipes. (Helen, do you still have the recipe for Watergate Pudding?) Maybe we'll even be able to post links to audio files. I wish we had the recording of Mary's mom discussing her take on "Fear of Flying."

Dulcy has offered to host the next book club meeting in April. When she has some possible dates, they'll be posted on this blog and we can let her know which date works best. Also, we're going to start voting on book selections. Several people have mentioned to me that they wish they had more of a say in what we read. To make this more democratic, Dulcy will be providing us with three choices. So this doesn't become a long, drawn out process, we'll have two days to post our comments on which book we prefer.

I hope Between the Covers blog helps us stay in touch between meetings and gives us an opportunity to discuss books -- even ones we're not reading for the club. If anyone has any suggestions on making this blog or our group better, please let us know.

By the way. Mary's book choice, Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland," won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.