Book Club Blues

I went to my bi-monthly book club meeting in Philly on Sunday and was surprised (and annoyed) to discover that I was the only one at the meeting who had read the 400+ page book The Shoemaker's Wife.  The woman who had suggested the book didn't even come for the meeting.  Frustrating!  I never would have read the book if I had known no one else would read it either!  Granted, we had three books to read and I read two of the three, but The Shoemaker's Wife was clearly the longest and the most time-consuming.  At least we only have two books for the next meeting and I suggested one of them.  (And the one I suggested is NOT 400+ pages either!)