We had a Friday night book club because we are reading Friday Night Knitting Club. We usually have book club on Sunday afternoons. Immediately we felt the difference. Largest difference was the alcohol.....sangria after a long work week.
The host, Meghan, had contacted the author to "call in" to our book club. At first this had seemed like a really neat idea. This was before we had read the book, which although I did enjoy, had a lot of holes in it....and our group has a lot of sarcasm in it.
We had started to discuss possible questions to ask her and we were wondering if she would indeed call us....and then the phone rang. We all screamed. Steph answered the phone on speaker phone. We had decided she was the most mature to keep the conversation rolling. The author, Kate Jacobs, introduced herself and asked if she could call us back in 20 minutes because there was a film crew that wanted to film her talking to us for a Borders in-store promotion. Crap.
The next twenty minutes were spent trying to spin our negative comments into good questions...this was by far the longest we had ever discussed a book at book club. Normally we would have switched to more important subjects like Octo-Mom and the finale of ER.
Kate called back and the interview went quite well....except a few comments thrown in from Steph that I think Kate missed. The sangria was really starting to kick in...hopefully we didn't make too big of fools of ourselves...
Happy Sunday!
The host, Meghan, had contacted the author to "call in" to our book club. At first this had seemed like a really neat idea. This was before we had read the book, which although I did enjoy, had a lot of holes in it....and our group has a lot of sarcasm in it.
We had started to discuss possible questions to ask her and we were wondering if she would indeed call us....and then the phone rang. We all screamed. Steph answered the phone on speaker phone. We had decided she was the most mature to keep the conversation rolling. The author, Kate Jacobs, introduced herself and asked if she could call us back in 20 minutes because there was a film crew that wanted to film her talking to us for a Borders in-store promotion. Crap.
The next twenty minutes were spent trying to spin our negative comments into good questions...this was by far the longest we had ever discussed a book at book club. Normally we would have switched to more important subjects like Octo-Mom and the finale of ER.
Kate called back and the interview went quite well....except a few comments thrown in from Steph that I think Kate missed. The sangria was really starting to kick in...hopefully we didn't make too big of fools of ourselves...
Happy Sunday!
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