Snowflake Day #15
Feb. 5th, 2025 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunDay Fifteen
Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.
Last January, I joined a book club brought together by my hair dresser and several of their clients they knew to be into similar things. The books we've read over the last year have been mostly sci-fi or horror both new and old. It's been an immense joy every month to get into a new book and then hang out with these very cool people for a couple hours to talk about them. Not only have I discovered books I probably wouldn't have otherwise, but I've met a solid group of people that all appreciate the books we read even when they're challenging.
I fell in love with our October book, We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. I've mentioned in an earlier post and honestly I've told everyone how much fun this book was to read. It's creepy, it's very reminiscent of House of Leaves (but infinitely more approachable), and it's got puzzles that can be solved. We all enjoyed this book at book club, some of us more than others. And while reading it, I was definitely deep down the rabbit hole, one of our other members got so far deep into to join the reddit and read the few other things the author wrote in this world. And then for Christmas a different member of our club printed out the related short story to We Used to Live Here and bound it for us herself as a book. It's adorable.
I had no idea when joining book club that it would be such an integral part of my life each month, but I'm obsessed. We're planning to celebrate our one year anniversary (which passed in January) at some point with a movie night. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.
Last January, I joined a book club brought together by my hair dresser and several of their clients they knew to be into similar things. The books we've read over the last year have been mostly sci-fi or horror both new and old. It's been an immense joy every month to get into a new book and then hang out with these very cool people for a couple hours to talk about them. Not only have I discovered books I probably wouldn't have otherwise, but I've met a solid group of people that all appreciate the books we read even when they're challenging.
I fell in love with our October book, We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. I've mentioned in an earlier post and honestly I've told everyone how much fun this book was to read. It's creepy, it's very reminiscent of House of Leaves (but infinitely more approachable), and it's got puzzles that can be solved. We all enjoyed this book at book club, some of us more than others. And while reading it, I was definitely deep down the rabbit hole, one of our other members got so far deep into to join the reddit and read the few other things the author wrote in this world. And then for Christmas a different member of our club printed out the related short story to We Used to Live Here and bound it for us herself as a book. It's adorable.
I had no idea when joining book club that it would be such an integral part of my life each month, but I'm obsessed. We're planning to celebrate our one year anniversary (which passed in January) at some point with a movie night. I'm very much looking forward to it.
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Date: 2025-02-06 04:58 am (UTC)