I started my own Book Club, Biblically Literate, in April, and it’s met with mixed success. I wasn’t able to meet with the members who live nearby in April, May or June, and then Eldest Daughter sort of took over. We’ve had a wonderful discussion of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, and going with Eldest’s choices we’re going to be reading I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, then The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, and finally Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. If you’d like to join in as we read any or all of these, please do. And if you email me your thoughts, I’ll post them or link to them at Biblically Literate.

I’ve found a couple of other group reads going on in the blogosphere in 2008, and I thought some of you might be interested in these:

A mixed group of novices and kindred spirits is reading or re-reading Anne of Green Gables in honor of the hundredth anniversary of its publication. They’re blogging about their thoughts on Anne and her adventures at Blogging Anne of Green Gables, and it looks as if they’ll be there all year, going on to read the sequels together, too.

Kate S., the originator of the Anne project, also lead me to Into the Parisian Underworld, a group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of the unabridged version of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Since Les Miserables is my favorite novel of all novels, and since I had planned to re-read it this year, I may join in the discussion, which seems to have lagged in recent days.

If you’re interested in any of these group reading projects, I’m sure you’d be welcome to join.