A new kind of book club
When you live a busy life, monthly book club meetings always loom right around the corner. And there the novel rests on the bedside table with its lonely bookmark on page 53, weeks from the end.
"Sorry, not tonight, I have to get a lot of reading done before book club." she says. After a pause, she adds, "Although I don't know why I bother. Half the people who come haven't read the book. They just come to eat, drink and talk."
"You know," he says, "you should start a video book club."
"What?" she asks.
"Sure, you come. You eat, drink and watch a movie made from a good book. That way, you don't have to race through the book and then get frustrated when everyone else comes unprepared. You get to sit around and watch a movie with your friends and talk about it. You can still read the book, but the movie catches everyone up. And you have the added benefit of being able to act superior and pronounce the book as so much better than the movie. What could be more perfect?"
Are there enough opportunities? Oh yeah.
"Just like a man," she says, and turns back to her book.
For another idea, read our friend Dan Conover and Sunday's Times.