Elephants and the CIA

Odd title for a post, yes?

Yes, it has been awhile since I've posted but that doesn't mean I haven't been reading! I read "Water For Elephants" and enjoyed it. It was a gritty, detailed novel of the traveling circuses and life as a part of that community. The only thing I had difficulty with was reconciling the author, a female, with the main character- a male. I don't know why I had such difficulty with this- perhaps because the novel was fairly graphic and written from a male perspective. I've never had a hang up with the author/character connection until now... hmmm...

And now the CIA piece of this post... My grandma (my 90+year old grandma) loves Vince Flynn novels and I've decided to tackle one. Tackle is a good term for my reading experience of this one. I'm currently reading "Consent To Kill" and it's taking me awhile to get through it. It's definitely not my "type" of book, however I thought I'd give it a try. It's good... lots of guys killing each other... interesting... political intrigue... it's about as thick as the Bible... yeah- we'll see. I'll post when I finish it!

Be looking for the announcement of our first book for the Thirsty Read Book Club. Once I post the title, we will have until early June to read it, reflect, and join the club!

Coming Soon- The Thirsty Read Book Club!

Yes, that's right! A book club! I've longed to be in a book club for years and now it's finally happening. I am a teacher as well as a photographer and reader, so some of my colleagues and I at school are forming a book club. We are going to meet once a month and read a book in the interim to discuss at each meeting. I thought it would be great to open this up to friends and friends of friends to be a part of this online! I know some of you who are across the country would love to read with a club and just not have the time commitment to meet. So, when we have a meeting, up until that point, those of you who are reading along with us from afar, please post comments, questions, etc. on the blog and I'll take those to our group. After the club meets, I'll do a debrief of some sort on here and let you know which book will be our next adventure. If you are interested in doing this, please post a comment so I know that there's someone out there- Also, if you are reading anything from this, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to pass along this invite to anyone and everyone you know to join this blog-online book club. My dream is that we'd have some people from around the country reading along with us, posting their thoughts, and then we'd have some great conversation at our club! Please give it a try... are you thirsty?! :)