The Significant Books Club Begins!

So, it's been a LONG time since I've blogged. Didn't work out quite so well as I'd hoped. But my sister Jan had a good idea. She suggested I blog about the books I'm doing with my new book club. I decided to do that, and to also just blog about the group itself.

When our church's minister, Brad Smith, said that the church was going to start an effort to begin small groups, I talked to him about the thinking I'd done regarding starting a book club. As I said at the beginning of this blog, I'd been thinking for quite some time that it'd be fun to have a book club where we discussed books that had changed peoples' thinking or maybe even their lives. I asked if that would "count" as a small group. He welcomed the idea and I decided to go for it.

One of the things I'd kind of struggled with, and a reason I'd hesitated to begin the book club, was because I wasn't sure if I should just ask people at church, or perhaps friends, or if I should try to use it as some kind of outreach. Finally, I decided that it was fine to invite the church members as a part of the small group effort and just see how it goes. I hope it'll grow.

I was very happy at the response. 10 people signed up! One more is thinking about it. It's terrific. I'm really looking forward to beginning. I created a Google group for our club (no surprise!) and for lack of anything better I called it "Significant Books Club". I didn't want to call it "Special" and it was too long to call it Books-That-Changed-My-Life-Or-Thinking-Or-At-Least-Challenged-My-Thinking. :)

Our first meeting is scheduled for March 15th. A couple people can't make it but I'm sure we'll still have a good time. If it's a small enough group, we can meet in our library, the great previous bedroom that Randy made into such a beautiful little library.

For our first book, I chose two, the first and last books of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. It'll be fun to hear what others choose as books that have affected them. Can't wait to start!