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[subsequentlyshe]

I don't want to go to my book club tomorrow, it’s my only free night (but seeing as I bitched about how the book club was never on a Wednesday night, I’d better go if I want them to respect any of my further scheduling requests.) The problem is I read the book two years ago. I enjoyed it. But I don't feel like reviewing/re-reading it. The sad fact

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[quiet_life]

and I thought I was the only person who enjoys reading and remembers virtually nothing about it- I feel so much better for having read your post, but that doesn't help you a bit does it?
I do have the book downstairs, and if it's an emergency I can skim the last few pages and let you know....lol. I have great short term memory.

(I can't join book clubs. I savor a good novel, but then I have no desire to discuss)

[subsequentlyshe]

My theory about myself is that I read a lot and that I read too quickly. Sometimes with a beautifully-written book I have to force myself to slow down, and I think reading constantly and quickly without stopping often enough to ponder and absorb makes things disappear into the void. However, even those books that I have thought about at length seem to drift away too. So maybe I have just lost too many brain cells as a teenager! One good aspect is that I can enjoy reading a book again!

I'm interested in why you have no desire to discuss -- is it because other people's opinions mar your enjoyment? Two past book clubs spring to my mind where I was the SOLE defender of a book I loved -- it's definitely a drag to hear people trash what you treasured.

Thanks for offering to skim the book for me! I'm just being lazy.