BookWormsRus - book club

I haven't been feeling well lately and have procrastinated my homework until today, the day it is due. Fun. Guess I know how I will be spending my day. Why oh why do I always do this to myself?

I am looking forward to our book discussion. Since the end of June is fast approaching, I have decided to make this weekend our book discussion weekend. I will post the questions on my blog on Friday morning and leave it out there for our discussion through the weekend. There will be a section for general discussion of the book and then I will post all the questions from the back of the book. There were 31 questions and they were quite hard, I feel like I have to re-read the book to answer all those questions. I must be getting old, as I didn't retain all those details from reading. If you are like me, no worries, this book club is for fun not to stress you out.

Whether you love it or hate it, The Last Girls did bring up many wonderful topics to be discussed. Things like:

Rebellion against your mom, does not wanting to turn into your mother influence a lot of who you are?

What about the rules of society things like looking nice, having nice things, being viewed as put together by others, how important is this to you?

Really, how many of your decisions are based on what others will think of you? Do you live your life based on what you like and don't like, follow your passions, or are you just rebelling against mom or trying to impress the neighbors?

And being a successful woman, having a career, does that really mean you are unable to have healthy fulfilling relationships with your children and husband?

By becoming women as opposed to being girls did we give up something? What? Are we better off as women, leading happier more fulfilled lives than the girls of yesteryear?

These are some of the things that ran through my head while reading this book. Not really the substance of the 31 questions, but I will try to work in my thoughts into the answers I give. If you have thoughts on these topics I hope you will join the discussion, irregardless of whether you actually read the book. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I look forward to all your thoughts.

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To the best of my addled recollection we had three people volunteer to host the book club. Laura Capello, Lorelei, and Angel showed interest in hosting in that order anyone else? So the tentative schedule for hosting the book club would be:
July - Laura
August - Lorelei
September - Angel
October - Marsha
November - Laura
December - Lorelei
January - Angel
February - Marsha
etc.
unless one of you changes your mind or someone else wants a crack at it. I am still taking suggestions August's book, I will put up a poll here on Friday so we have plenty of time to aquire the book. There are no rules, hosting is done in any way you wish. You can even host it entirely through email, I will send out an email to everyone so you all have all the email addresses of all the participants. Please comment or email me if you wish to have your email included on the book club email list.

Now off to my homework. I am learning about how to program with Oracle. My dream is to be able to create an online database of gluten-free recipes. I am hoping to use the skills I am aquiring in school to learn enough to make this a reality. There are litterally thousands of gluten-free bloggers out there. Everyone is posting fabulous recipes wouldn't it be nice to be able to have all those recipes organized? To be able to click on the things you are allergic to, like eggs, wheat, gluten, corn and then search for say cookies, and get a list of all the recipes published by gluten-free food bloggers - a list of links to their blogs, to the exact page where that particular recipe is located. We all have dreams, and this one is mine. Do you have an invention that you wish you had time to invent? This gluten-free recipe index is my dream invention, what is yours?