Satan's Bookclub

Today, Louise and I went down to the University Bookstore to pick up tickets for the Neil Gaimain signing next week. Free with purchase of Neil Gaiman book, $3 otherwise. Which I am totally fine with. I have a hard time believing it takes little or no effort to coordinate one of these things. Three dollars is a bargin. And I appreciate the knowledge that I, Jodi, am No. 419. No sense in hurrying in line until the first 400 kids have been taken care of, right? I like that. I can get very competitive when it comes to queues and parking spots.

For those of you who are not familiar with the game, Louise and I go to a lot of book signings together. Typically, male authors are enamored with her "delightful" Scottish accent and just want her to talk endlessly about whatever she wants. When this happens, it's basically free reign for me to mock her. It's only fair. I don't have anything delightful. So I have to work with what I've got. She is a bit worried about breaking her record because Mr. Gaiman is British, and may not be impressed with her musical voice. But as I pointed out to her, Clive Barker loved her, and he's British. She'll not get to use THAT as an excuse. As her accent is not only Scottish, but it's from a particularly delightful region of Scotland, accent-wise. So she tells me. Often.

I'll let you know how it all works out. Trust me.

So, in celebration of Neil Gaiman being here next week, and Terry Pratchett being here this week, Louise and I were wondering... how about Good Omens for the next bookclub selection?

Posted by jodi at 04:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Hey kids, we should come up with some book ideas for the next bookclub book. Any ideas? Suggestions? Requests?

Posted by jodi at 02:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (8)

I have started one post, with a question from the author's website. However, you are free to start as many threads as you like.

Bookclub Forum.

More tomorrow...

Posted by jodi at 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Hi!

Technically, the day for Bookclub Discussion of Lamb starts Thursday the 26th. But I know a lot of you could use a few extra days. So we'll give you until Sunday. I should have the bookclub forum up by Saturday.

Yay!

Looking forward to discussing books!

Posted by jodi at 08:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)

There has been a reoccuring theme of Christianity in my life lately, and it's ain't pretty. First there are the pharmacists. Don't get me started on the pharmacists!! Too late. I'm already thinking about them. As PK Victor said, "I don't want to go suck dicks, all day, ergo, I'm not a gay prostitute." It's that simple. And then there is that show "Revelations" which I cannot resist, due to a longtime crush on Bill Pullman and a love of mystic stuff. But Revelations is not the happy Christianity. And the pharmacists are making me mad. And the people wanting to divert money from public schools, including universities, for any type of art that has a gay theme. [alabama]. And the creationists. And the people opposing gay marriage. I mean... I really thought by 2005, we'd live in a more enlightened age, you know? But no.

And so, because of this, and because someone asked for this book, and because I love this book tremendously, and I need something to make me understand that Jesus was way cool, our first bookclub selection will be "Lamb: The Gospel According to Bif, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore.

Read this book, and see if you don't dig Jesus bit more than you used to, but be prepared to be even more frustrated with what people do in his name.

Here's how it works, go out, get the book, and read it. We'll open the discussion on May 26th. In the coming weeks, there will be more updates in the weeks to come about the discussion site. Including a mail list just for bookclub news and information.

Posted by jodi at 08:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (15)