It has been a while since our last book club update. The “book club” that has sort of gone down the drain. The whole student-cheapness factor is impeding our progress, since we chose some pretty popular books that were not available at the local library. And passing around a book between all book-club members isn’t the most conducive method to having a book-club in the first place. And honestly, I’m not really the book-discussing-type anyways – ask me about pulmonary hypertension and we’ll have a good discussion, but there’s a reason I’m a science student.

Anyways, the last book we read was The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was awesome. The movie is actually out in theatres now (which I will see on Friday thanks to some very handy free passes and an old friend), but the book was much enjoyed by all. I’m too busy to write a full report right now, so go read it for yourself! Slackers.

The next book was chosen due to the serendipitous (I love the movie!) fact that a couple friends and I happened to be “reading” it at the same time. And it’s supposed to be pretty good (of course!). I say “reading” in quotations, because we are all way too busy with exams/essays/committee meetings/school in general that we don’t have too much time for extra reading…therefore, our book-club deadline is May 15th. A couple months should be enough for Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, I think.

Life in general shall return at the end of April, after committee meetings and essays and presentations are over. Hopefully we’ll survive this month.

On a bright (and completely unrelated) note, I won my first Timmy’s roll up the rim today! Can you believe it? I must have bought at least 30 steeped teas, and this is the first win. It was quite exciting, to say the least.