BAMF's met on Friday night at Ashley's (who made the most fantastic BBQ pulled pork and salads) and it seemed like a consensus that the book was not well liked. Since it won a Newberry Award we were all expecting better. We did talk about the book for awhile, like 15 minutes...that's almost a record!

Judy is hosting next (Eat, Pray, Love) and then Sarah is taking her turn. We are going to do a self-help book which is different and kind of exciting. I am not a fan at all of self-help in fact I think they are a little dumb, but I would give it a whirl for my girls! Jeanette and I are requesting sex related self-help since that would at least give us something to keep entertained and chatty! Our librarian-esq member Elizabeth seemed shockingly intrigued by the possibility of sex self-help, which every time something sex related comes up (which is about every 6.3 minutes) I get a bit uneasy and I feel a bit slutty and sleazy....I am betting that she could show us all a few tricks!

I finished reading Rise and Shine. I really didn't like it at first but was determined to finish. I was actually surprised because towards the last 100 pages I couldn't put it down. I ended up liking the book, but would still probably not recommend this highly.

The book is about two sisters and their lives after a series of unfortunate events take place and how they re cooperate from devastation and grow apart and then, of course, back together. It is set in New York city and got a bit whiny about the people and social quirks of the city. The main character Bridget is a Social Worker and her sister, Meghan is a hugely famous morning talk show personality. The scenarios are a bit predictable and you knew what the outcome would be before the author even addressed the issue. There was not much surprise or mystery to this book, just your average novel.

I started reading A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. I read his other book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and didn't like it, so I am not sure why I am reading another. I guess I am a glutton for torture or I just want to give him another shot. So far I am confused, but that's not all that out of the ordinary!

I finished reading The Higher Power of Lucky and found myself very disappointed. This book was written for 9-11 year olds, so being a 25 year old, I found this book very very boring. I tried to imagine a 9 year old reading this and it is no wonder why kids now a days don't read! This book won a Newberry award and I am shocked. I know the idea behind the BAMF's picking this book was to expand our horizons and not get stuck in the popular novel rut, but this sucked. I will have to turn in my membership card if we pick more young adult books. I read this book in the span of about 2 hours and I want that time back so that I could do something more productive, like masturbate or pick up dog shit! Hopefully the next book will be better!

I finished reading Everything Changes yesterday and started Rise and Shine. I enjoyed Everything Changes, it was a very light book. It was about a man who is engaged to get married and his life seems all organized and set up nicely for him, but incidents takes place that uproot his entire life. Everything in his life seems to be falling apart, but really in the end his life finally takes a meaningful shape. I wouldn't recommend this book highly, unless you were looking for a semi-comic quick read.

I finally finished The Time Traveller's Wife and loved it! It was such a great book. I thought that it would be more romantic of a tale, but I am so glad it wasn't...I hate really sappy shit. I did; however, find myself in tears riding the train to work the other morning...really embarrassing. As far as I can remember, that is the first book that I cried for. I started reading Everything Changes, it seems like an easy read option.

The next BAMF's book is going to be The Higher Power of Lucky. I don't know if we can keep the name BAMF's after reading this book, we may need to go to Nerd Herd. I don't find reading adolescent literature all that exciting, in fact I haven't attempted that since I was an adolescent. The book after that is Eat Pray Love and I am only slightly excited about this one.