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?