I recently decided to retire from my job as a driver of food to daycares in the greater Toronto area to focus more squarely on writing, comedy and living the dream. As a first step, I plan on catching up on this blog in the next few days. So, um, watch out.
3) The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass, translated by Breon Mitchell
This is the dude on the cover of the Tin Drum
Where were we? I had just cut a book in three, and was feeling confident, smug even. But then Krista (my beautiful wife) announced that we would be hosting book club this month. I confidently and smugly said that not only would I participate in the hosting of this event, I would read the book as well. Krista had joined a book club along with one of her close friends, who was an actor and had started a book club for other actors or similar artists who had been rejected from more formal book clubs. They had been rejected because they could get a gig and be summoned out of town at any time, and so could not necessarily attend book club meetings with 100% regularity.
My mom is in a book club too. I wouldn’t like to be part of a book club full time, mostly because I have other book commitments, and also a lot of book clubs read mostly book-club-type books, Oprah’s and Heather’s picks, that kind of stuff. Oh, also it’s tough to be in a book club because you have to read a book in a month. Every month.
Dave's Booklist 