The Time Traveler's Wife

I feel like we are great adventurers in our own story today. We used our collective brain power to rediscover this blog, remember the passwords, and then figure out how to get us all signed on. And we did it! This is my own first post to this blog.

Today we discussed The Time Traveler's Wife. I thought it was a beautiful love story that happened to also fit into the sci fi genre. Our next book club meeting is at 1pm on January 15, 2011 at my house. We will be reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

This is a small departure from our original purpose - it is written by a man. This will be only the second book that we have read that is written by a man. (The first was Next by John Grisham.) We decided to open our options to male writers after reading one too many bad books. We agreed that we would rather read great books than limit ourselves to only female writers.

Don't misunderstand - We have read an incredibly large number of talented female sci-fi writers since we started this book club in 2005. (With help, I hope to recreate a list of all the books we've read.) Unfortunately, there are a limited number of great sci fi novels published every month and an even more limited number are written by women. Not only do I say - Please write more!!!! - but we are going to try writing our very own sci fi book. Wish us luck!