I had a moderately productive weekend which is a bit odd for me. I had a book club meeting both days, got my taxes done, did some dishes, washed some laundry, created events for the next three months for both of the book clubs that I run. I've posted another book club review and did some other cleaning around the house to prepare for my parents to be in town tomorrow (my house will not be perfect when they get here, but my house growing up never was either so...)
And now, it's time to talk about another book club. Let's go.
Tonight I'm discussing COS Smutty Book Club. In case it's not clear by the name, this group has a sole focus on the smuttiest of smut. And a big point of conversation at most meetings is if the books we read for that month gave good sex, which is an absolutely valid point of discussion for a group that reads all the smut.
This group is the most chaotic of the book clubs that I'm a member of (which is really saying something considering how chaotic my group management skills are). While we typically meet the last Wednesday of the month, that isn't a hard and fast rule, largely because the woman who hosts our group in her home is sometimes gone on the last Wednesday of the month. But we always pick the next meeting date at the meeting, and it gets posted typically while we're still there. But the meetings themselves are chaotic in the best way possible. We don't always spend much time talking about either of the books we had read for that month (and when we have spent a lot of time talking about the selected book it was because it was bad! I'm looking at you The Pisces.) But there is always talk about smutty books in general, and what everyone is reading and doing in life.
Because the group is hosted in the same home every month, the rest of us contribute potluck style, and that often means we're eating girl dinner with everyone bringing whatever they feel like. I always bring a veggie tray because it's easy for me to pick up on the way over after work and it means I don't have to think about what to contribute. But other contributions tend to be a bag of chips, a package of cookies or cupcakes, Rachel usually brings some form of protein, but it's largely finger food-ish options. Occasionally we theme our contributions based on what we're reading (the month we read Pounded by Produce we did salads for the meal. Being a midwesterner, I brought a selection of midwest salads like That Minnesota Mom would make).
We mostly select books by voting as a group at each meeting on what we're going to read next. But sometimes Rachel wants to read non-MM hockey smut, and when that happens, we tend to read non-MM hockey smut. This group also picks two books every month now. We have our real book, which is a full length novel, and then we have our bonus book which is a short novella at best, typically in the vein of a Chuck Tingle book. This has been helpful as it means I can for sure finish at least one of the two books before the meeting. And sometimes the bonus books are the real stars of the show.
Some of my favorite reads with this group include Hallowpeen by Holly Wilde, A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney, and The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score.
While this is a group that I have no intention of leaving, because we do meet in someone's home, membership has been capped at this time. Which means, I can't ask if you'd want to join us because unfortunately, you can't sit with us. But I have also been considering starting a Fountain chapter for the folks that live on the south side of town (or in Fountain proper). But then I remember I already run two groups, and I'm not even organized enough to do that well. - Katie
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