Halls of the Dark Muse

I use to always be against Book Club type book discussions, and when I say against I do not mean that I generally think they are a bad thing. But for me personally they never really worked because I did not like the idea of having someone else dictate to me what I am going to read and how much time I have to read it.

Though since I got involved in the Faulkner discussion of Light in August I discovered that it can be useful if I choose to partake only in book discussions that happen to be talking about a book I already own because it helps me get more reading done and gets me to start reading books I have had sitting around but have not gotten around to reading yet because I have so many other things to read.

I was over on the Goodreads site and well I haven't popped into any of the groups I belong to over there in ages because I have had so many other things going on, but I was sitting here with nothing else to do so I thought I would pop in and one of the groups I belong to has monthly discussions and for March they are doing the Handmaidens Tale which I happen to own and want to read, and the discussion did not start tell the end of March and so I did the calculations and figured I only had to read about two chapters a day to finish in time and I thought that sounded doable so I figured I would give it a try.