New books... thanks, Boulder Bookstore!

Last night a few of us attended the bookclub event at the Boulder Bookstore last night after dinner together at Chipotle. We had a pretty good time; it was cool to hear what other clubs were reading and how they ran things. It was a little disappointing to not see other teens there, but we still had a great time. Best of all, we all left with two new books, courtesy of the bookstore. (Woohoo!!). In my goodie bag was a copy of Margaret Coel's Killing Raven, and at the end of the night, we were all able to choose books that had been set out on a table, and I chose The Emotional Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff. It's been a long time since I've read a mystery novel, so having the opportunity to read Coel will be fun, and the Bekoff book is something I'm definitely interested in, and I'm planning to read it shortly before or after I read my copy of Animals Matter, so that will be a nice pairing of concepts, particularly since Bekoff wrote both of them.

Our next bookclub meeting is (tentatively) scheduled for Wednesday, December 3rd. If that changes, I'll post it up, but that is the day for us to give further thoughts and reflections on The Graveyard Book and we'll be talking about our choice(s) for our next book.

I've noticed that quite a lot of Gaiman's work focuses on the theme of the outsider trying to fit in, or at least get by, in a society they don't necessarily understand, and The Graveyard Book is no exception. I would like to make that a part of the discussion, which we can start here, of course.