Book Club

Last night was our bi-weekly book club. We are thinking that this is a heavy schedule and feels a little bit like work. Trying to process a book every fourteen days. I am to call the Library today and see about changing to a once a month club.

We discussed Coach Tony Dungy's Story last evening. Our hour went very quickly. There was considerable laughter as one of the participants truly knows nothing about football. She thought the X' and O's referred to in the book were hugs and kisses. Too cute!

I would recommend this book as one that has a lot of wisdom in its pages. Coach Dungy stayed the course through a lot of adversity in the football programs, through losing a son to suicide and the loss of both parents. He is raising a family and making them a priority. This man's faith remains strong.

I did think, though, that after making the statement in the beginning of the book that it was not about football that there was a lot of football talk in the book.
I get what he is saying, but still. If you do not like the sport you likely will not LOVE this book.

My friend, Brenda, led this discussion and did a wonderful job. She even re-watched the 2006 Steelers/Colts Playoff game referenced in the book as her father had taped it so that she could communicate the feeling of that final missed kick that cost the Colts the game. Cool! Not cool that they lost the game. Cool that Brenda would rewatch a game in which she knew the ending to be the best Book Club leader she could be.

I guess personally I would give the book an 8 out of 10 stars.

Our next book is My Grandfather's Son. It is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Memoir.

What are you reading?

The Book Club

We had seven ladies out to the book club last evening. We finished discussing the book, Safely Home. What a great book and what a discussion. It was very good.

I know these pictures say you can look inside. You can...if you go to my Amazon link and search for these titles. You can read some of each book there.


We have chosen our next few books. In two weeks we will discuss Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength. He is a football coach and this is his story. It is a bit of a change from the novel.

We plan to read The Shack. It comes highly recommended. Also coming up is a book by Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice.



Up until now, it is just people from our church but we are going to advertise more aggressively now that we know what we are doing. Hopefully some people that attended the former book club at our library will come out.

Just a quick update on the pain. It seems it is going to be with me forever. I went to my family doctor on Tuesday. He said he believes that there are more adhesions. He has set me up on a pain management plan. If that manages the pain I guess there is nothing else to do. If not...I will go back to my surgeon and request another ultrasound to see if I have formed another cyst already.

It would seem that I will be out "running" a large part of today. So I hope your day is good and I'll be back here tomorrow, hopefully.