An interesting book about a group of friends who meet to read and eat!! Sounds like my kind of book club. If you are going on vacation, this would be a good book to take along.

I didn’t read Jane Austen’s Book Club, I only watched the movie. Perhaps I wouldn’t have liked that book either, but that movie inspired me to read this book, which I definitely didn’t like. I found it pretentious and self-serving that the characters were constantly guilt-ridden about their curiosity of their friends’ marriage, became more important that the stories of their lives, that they had to state over and over again how much they loved literature and how because they wanted to discuss it and the authors it put them above the average reader, these were all annoying points.

Along with the annoyances – this wasn’t anything special. The characters were your run-of-the-mill “groupies” their storylines were predictable and their decisions were boring. While everyone was mulling over Eric’s possible offense, I called the secret halfway through and I was only skimming. After the first painful 100 pages I took to speed reading – blowing past the mental angst to pick up the meat of the story and get to the end.

A little too cliché but should have expected it.

Meh. Characters were utterly boring. The only reason I finished it was because I wanted to know the heinous thing Eric did. And now I can’t even remember. My bookclub is SO much better than this bougie bunch.

I enjoyed the idea of a book club reading classic literature. For some reason, I kept getting the characters names confused --- not sure why. The ending tied things up nicely -- possibly a bit predictable, but fine for a nice read.

I was warned that this wasn't the best book in the world and that was an understatement. This is the WORST book I read in 2009. It was so repetitive, a boring plot, 2D characters, etc. etc. etc. Wow – it was bad. It was so bad that I had to read it completely to fully appreciate it's true crapiness. I try to avoid reading reviews and even the back covers of books, but this book was so unbelievably terrible that about halfway through, I took a good look at the cover in case I was missing something… imagine my surprise to see 'award winning author above Gloria Goldreich's name'! How? Not this book! The book is so bad that the synopsis on the back had 4 out of the 6 characters WRONGLY NAMED. I think the editor and the reviewer didn't even read this book. Wow. It was BAD! Painful! Brutal!

An interesting premise. Detours over duplicative territory; this really needed a good editor.

I was not fond of this book about six New York women who participate in a bookclub. The idea for the story line was interesting, but I longed for the end. I was reading to get the answer to the question presented in the first chapter and the answer did not come to the final chapter.

Holidays notwithstanding, this book took me forever to read because I could put it down at anytime. Didn't realize that I just didn't like it and should have stopped. LOL.

This was a good book about a woman's book club. You get to know each of the characters back story separate from their book club meetings which is nice. Mostly it is about the meetings, the books they choose and how they are intertwined together. The one strange thing is my copy gave a back description with different names of the women that are actually used in the story???? Overall it was a good, light read.

I had high hopes for this book but basically it was just a garden-variety tale of suburban women who may or may not be happy with their marriages and lives. Nothing earth-shattering here.

Trying to figure out if I have read this before ... guess I will keep reading and see!