We are a group of highly literate, well-educated, widely traveled, sophisticated, enormously accomplished women who meet every month without fail to discuss books and current events while eating fabulously delicious food. We’re also darned nice people — as well as very modest. This book club started almost thirty years ago. The “new girls” joined in 1987, and no one has dared join since.
Jane Austen
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August 18, 2008 at 2:30 pm
We’ve had requests to join, however; tentative inquiries which have not been encouraged; envious remarks with hanging edges; subtle (?) comments like, “Your book club sounds great! I wish I were in one like that,” followed by the proverbial pregnant pause. We ignore all such “feelers” for any number of reasons: we get along well enough; those “new girls” just barely worked out (ha!); we have such a long history that anyone new would feel uncomfortable (that’s the charitable reason we use publicly); we have such quirks and idiosyncrasies we don’t want others to know about it; we’re afraid we’d get another too dominant conversationalist; the person might not be willing to drink enough wine or might not be a good cook or we’d all have to agree ahead of time about someone being invited in. . . so many reasons, so little time. Mostly, it’s probably because we’re comfortable with each other and change-resistant. And we’re sick of campaigns trying to prove how likable people are. Oh wait, that’s probably just me. Go back to the mostly. . . Chris
October 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I heartily recommend that everyone read the postings about American Lightning! They’re why I could never be a book reviewer!