Great Book Club!

Had another great book club meeting last night.

We discussed my latest pick, "Loving Frank." I highly, highly recommend this book. It was a fascinating read, a fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright and his love affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney. I've long been fascinated by Wright and his architecture (for awhile in junior high and high school, I thought about becoming an architect) so this was really an enjoyable read. Makes me want to visit some of the nearby write architecture here in Wisconsin. His home in Spring Green, Taliesen is just a few hours away from here. Wingspread, a conference center he design for SC Johnson, is in Racine. He designed the Annuciation Greek Orthodox Church here, which is right by my house. There's also a group of homes on the South Side of Milwaukee that are open for tours. And don't even get me started about the idea of road tripping to Chicago and Oak Park to check out all of his works down there!

-Sigh-

The book is heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time. I don't want to wreck it... all I can say is, if you're going to read the book DO NOT GOOGLE WRIGHT and DO NOT READ HIS BIO ON WIKIPEDIA! It will wreck the story! (Sorry I didn't warn you sooner, Therese!)

Our next pick is "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." It looks like another good one... just ordered it from Amazon.com because I can't wait for it at the library. I'm really looking forward to it!

I also hit an amazing milestone on GoodReads today. I now have 1000 books on my list. Now, I've only read just over half of them...I think I'm at 507, cruising toward 508. It's kind of a daunting "to read" list, but since I discovered the site almost 18 months ago, I haven't once had to say "what am I going to read now?!" I have a list I can keep going back to that is helping me feed my reading habit!