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Participate in a Book Club

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2/6/19 Well, I am not sure my book club will take off or not, but I started an online nonfiction book club for my POBL teammates. Actually, I have very little faith it will take off at all. There are five members including me so far. I didn’t even think there was anybody other than me until I go on the site yesterday to go ahead and post something about the book I read and clicked on members and there were 5. I’m going to be optimistic that others will participate and get share some of the books they enjoy. I don’t really like book clubs that force everyone to read the same book. I tried to be in one here in Maple Valley, but the first book they chose was super strange and then the second was about the same. I’d really like to have a group that I can meet with and make some friends here in the area, but I can’t read stupid books just for that reason.

1/1/2020 My online book club did not take off at all. Now I might be able to start a book club at school now the I’m the principal because people tend to jump on bandwagons with me now, but it may be something for next year or another year depending on what Jeremy and I do next year. I did actually read a book and go to someone’s house in Maple Valley before the pandemic hit and I probably would have gone back, but alas the threat of death kept me at home. I think the book was A Man Called Ove, which I really did like a lot. Not everyone enjoyed it, but I love books about old people who have an awakening of sorts and Ove had just that. He was a hard man who was so sad without his wife but learned to live again and became important to the people around him in spite of his rough edges.

I do think a book club would be a great way for me to meet people. It gives me a reason to be somewhere and gives me something to talk about rather than just the awkward getting to know you at a restaurant or bar which I think can be a bit exhausting. I have learned through my enneagram test that there is a reason I get tired quickly at social functions and that is ok. I just need to learn some strategies to get me through and to go into it with a positive attitude to start.

The moral of the story here is to plan to carry this one on even after I turn 50.