WHERE ARE THE BOOKS?

"So Jessica...why did you start a blog about a book club if you don't post any books on it?"

Well I'm glad you asked that question.  Honestly that's the question/criticism I get about FBC in general from new members coming to FBC for the first time.  People think of a book club and what comes to mind is a group of people reading a book and then coming to discuss said book.  Perhaps it's because we're busy or not motivated or reading too many school books or all of the above, but an underlining principal of FBC is: READ IF YOU WANT.  When forming the group we all felt too busy and too poor to commit ourselves to a book a month, so this was the alternative we came up with: trade books and talk about feminist issues.  As a result our book club is much more heavy on the feminist issues and lighter on the books.  However, my new pledge for the summer is to try and read two books a month and report back on them.  I will be encouraging other FBC members to do the same (not the two book thing, but the reporting back thing).  This way the blog can start to reflect it's namesake as well as the fabulously intelligent women who belong to FBC. 

Stay tuned for our group consensus on Zeitoun...rumor is we will be meeting THIS Sunday to discuss!