A decision has been made. Correction: Decisions have been made.

Sorry, Pauline, but decisions have been made in your absence. The question does remain: Where are you?

In order to be, like, super-cultured, here's the plan: Gonna read us some Kafka from "The Complete Stories." Not exactly sure which stories right now. But a few. Will elucidate more soon upon further discussion.

Then we're going to see "Kafka on the Shore" a la Steppenwolf. See how worldly this is becoming already?

And then afterward, to add another layer of depth, we're going to delve into "What I talk about when I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami.

Welcome aboard, Abbie!

If your suggestions were obvious, then mine are about to slap you across the face.

At long last, I have something to contribute. I like both of your suggestions, Angie. I'd especially like to read the running book by Haruki Murakami. I hadn't even heard of your second suggestion. I'm not very hip. So ... obvious? Pah! You know what all the cool kids are up to these days.

I have some books I feel that I need to make up for because I have not already read them. I will throw them into the wind. There is a very good chance you ladies (or gentlemen) may have already read these books. I'm feeling uncultured and not very self-respecting for having not read them yet (too many negatives in a run on equaling a positive? perhaps), but I am going to put them out there anyway.

Into the world you go:
1) Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
2) Rabbit, Run by John Updike
3) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

I'm going to keep it short and sweet and pretty frickin obvious for now, though the list could go on. I hope we're planning on book-clubbing for a while. P.S. Book club is now a verb.

Pauline, where are you?

book it!

my list may be laughably obvious, but i just wanted to get things started.

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami : Inspiration to get out of our workout ruts in addition to giving Pauline an out to stop reading "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle." ;) Also, we can think about going to see "Kafka on the Shore" at Steppenwolf (or read that instead).
• boring boring boring boring boring boring boring by Zach Plague : Some local love here, and probably my way of easing back into reading something longer than five pages (le sigh, how easily my mind wanders...). Anyway, I didn't get a chance to view the exhibit or attend the release party, how about you two?

...and that's it from me. apparently I need to work on being self-respecting from a dude's perspective.

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We need to brainstorm. What should our first book be?